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AUTO CAD TRAINING 8 Hints Starting up with Received Drawing: 1. Saves as that Drawing with a new filename. 2. Turn on all layers. 3. Check External references. 4. Check the Scale given and Drawn. 5. Check the units, By DIST Command. 6. Check the Dimensions. 7. Check the dimension Spacing. 8. Check the Calculations. 9. Check that all Boundaries are closed. 10. Purge all unwanted items. 11. Check the page Setup. Drawing Cleaning 1. Turn on all the layers. 2. Check & setup the Units. UNITS 3. Check & setup the scale. SCALE 4. Check the Dimensions by using DIST Command. 5. Check and Close all the Boundary lines. 6. Check for all Paper space objects in model space if found move to Paper space. 7. Do page Setup. 8. Always set to Gray Scale. 9. Use Paper Size of Arch-D (24x36). 10. Uncheck the viewport layer for print. 11. Create Layers to Company Standards. 12. Draw New Dimensions for all the boundaries. 13. Create new Dim styles named PTCS with Arrows and PTCS Plain 14. Delete all overlapping lines. 15. Always use Multiline text.MTEXT 16. Show in paper space to what scale that drawing has printed. 17. Always draw to certain amount of Scale. 18. Do not use 0 and Defpoints layers. 19. Always put 0 layer as current before closing drawing. 20. Always use XREF. 21. Draw & Modify everything only in Basedarwing 22. .Do not create any layers in the Xref drawing. 23. Show thicker lines for boundaries. 24. Show elements lines thicker than other dimension lines. 25. Always Use By Layer for every element. 26. Set LTSCALE=one AND psltscale=one for matching the lineweigth in Model and paper spaces.

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To Display Line weight in Paper space/Model Space: 1. Go to Format. 2. Line weight Setting. 3. Select Display Line weight.

List of Useful Commands PURGE PEDIT IM FIND REFEDIT - Deletes all unwanted and UN used thing. (Layers, styles.) - Edits a Polylines style. - External references - Finds and replaces the Text or Dimension. - Edits the Reference of a block.

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Insert Table in AutoCAD: 1. Draw menu. 2. Table.

` To Copy Table or Object from Word or Excel: Copy the table or text or Object and go to Auto CAD and paste as paste special (PASTE SPECIAL) As picture enhanced metafile.

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To save a Layout as Template: After creating the layout. Command Layout Type Save as the layout. Give the name (i.e. 24x36 Standard template) And Say yes.

Layer States Manger: It saves the State of the Layers. (I.e. Layer Colors, Lineweigth, Line type. Layer Freeze, Etc). Whenever we modified the layers, we have to save the layer state for every time Otherwise, it will undo the changes we have made before.

To Convert Single line Text to Multiline Text. Go to Express tool Bar. Go to Text. Click on Convert to Multiline Text. TXT2MTXT

To Insert Automatic Numbers in AutoCAD: Go to Express tool Bar. Go to Text. Click on Automatic text numbering Command TCOUNT

To align the text as Arch Style. Go to Express tool Bar. Click on Text. Click on Arch Aligned the Text. ARCTEXT

To Change the Text case to Diff Styles: Go to Express tool Bar. Click on Text. Click on Change Text Case. TCASE

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To Align the Test to Read from Right Orientation: Command : TORIENT

Rotates text, Mtext and attribute definition Object so that they end up being as closed as possible to horizontal or right read (Similar to the behavior of dimension text) objects are rotated about their middle point in 180 degrees increments , for example if the text is upside down , it become right side up after a TORIENT operation , similar left read text become right read text ,over all object location is not changed. Key Board Shortcuts: F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 F12 : : : : : : : : : : : : HELP COMMAND LIST OSNAP ON/OFF CALIBRATE ISOLATE DYNAMIC UCS ON/OFF GRID ON/OFF ORTHO ON/OFF SNAP ON/OFF POLAR ON/OFF OTRACK ON/OFF DYN ON/OFF

To Save a Drawing in 2004 Version: Go to File menu. Click Save as (Ctrl+Shift+S). Save drawing as window will appears. Give File name. In Files of type option select Auto CAD2004/LT2004 Drawing (*.dwg). Then Click Save.

To Save a Drawing in 2004 Version (Default) : Go to Tools menu and click Options. (Or) click the right mouse button and select Options. In the Options window, select open and save tab. In Save as drop down selection select Auto CAD2004/LT2004 Drawing (*.dwg). Then click Apply

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Divide You can divide a selected object into a specified number of equal lengths. You can create points or insert blocks on an object at a specific number of equal intervals. This operation does not actually break an object into individual objects; it only identifies the location of the divisions so that you can use them as geometric reference points.

The starting point for measurements or divisions varies with the object type. For lines or open polylines, the starting point is the endpoint closest to the selection point. For closed polylines, it is the polyline start point. For circles, it is at the angle from the center point that is equivalent to the current snap angle. For example, if the snap angle is 0, the circle starts at the three o'clock position and continues counterclockwise. If the point marker is displayed as a single dot (the default setting), you may not be able to see the segments. You can change the style of the point markers using several methods. To change the point style in a dialog box, you can use DDPTYPE. Alternately, click Format menu Point Style. The PDMODE system variable also controls the appearance of point markers. For example, you can change the value to make points appear as crosses. PDSIZE controls the size of point objects.

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