AutoCADD Tutorial

AutoCADD TutorialA survival guideAvery S.H. CopelandPrepared for IMDL Lab students and MIL volunteersOctober 9, 1997Revised April 17, 19982AutoCADD Tutorial PageContentsIntroductionRelative CoordinatesO-SnapGridSnapLineCircleP-lineP-editText and D-TextOffsetTrimExtendEraseescape keySelecting objectsMove and copyZoomDrawing setup for MIL applicationslayersoutline and inline layersanchor tabsplotting to the t-techShortcutsa) RETURN or click the right mouse button to repeat last commandb) RETURN or click the right mouse button to start next drawing element at last point selected on screen(or designated by relative coordinates)3AutoCADD Tutorial PageIntroductionAutoCADD is an extremely powerful drafting tool. It has enabled accuracy in drawing barely imaginablethirty years ago. AutoCADD has taken a lot of the guesswork out of locating routes for roads, locations forunderwater foundations, and even space research. It is so accurate that it can give commands to anelectronically controlled saw to cut wood to the thousandth of an inch. That’s what we use it for in MIL; tocut out robot parts and copper circuit boards. The machine is called a t-tech machine, and presents specificproblems that must be addressed in AutoCADD. ...