Polyline Commands to Use/Learn Print/plot Cardinal directions Snap Circle Spline Copy Text Dimstyle Trim Grid Units Limits Zoom Line Linetype Midpoint Move Part 1: Starting Your Drawing Starting with a New Drawing To start a new drawing from scratch, follow the steps below: Open up an imperial border template drawing in your CAD software. Grid and Snap set-up: set both to 2'. Limits set-up: 0,0,0 and upper right corner 32',24' are set at the command line by typing LIMITS and pressing enter to cycle through the choices to ensure they are correct. Dimstyle, Units, and Print/Plot MUST be set to the values in the screen captures for architectural drawing: Under Dimstyle, set to (Figure 2) “Unit format” “Architectural” In the Units window, set to (Figure 3) “Type” “Architectural” Look at Figures 2, 3, and 4 and apply all settings carefully in AutoCAD. All other Default settings are satisfactory, though they can be changed if required. Save your drawing as mybuilding.dwg.
Commands to Use/Learn Cardinal directions Circle Copy Dimstyle Grid Limits Line Linetype Midpoint Move Polyline Print/plot Snap Spline Text Trim Units Zoom Part 1: Starting Your Drawing Starting with a New Drawing To start a new drawing from scratch, follow the steps below: Open up an imperial border template drawing in your CAD software. Grid and Snap set-up: set both to 2'. Limits set-up: 0,0,0 and upper right corner 32',24' are set at the command line by typing LIMITS and pressing enter to cycle through the choices to ensure they are correct. Dimstyle, Units, and Print/Plot MUST be set to the values in the screen captures for architectural drawing: Under Dimstyle, set “Unit format” to “Architectural” (Figure 2) In the Units window, set “Type” to “Architectural” (Figure 3) Look at Figures 2, 3, and 4 and apply all settings carefully in AutoCAD. All other Default settings are satisfactory, though they can be changed if required. Save your drawing as mybuilding.dwg.
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