AutoCAD® 2015 : Line Smoothing, Windows 8.1Ĭareer Scope and Industry Demand of AutoCAD®ĪutoCAD® is an indivisible part of Mechanical and Civil engineering field, where you name an industry you will find its applications like manufacturing, construction, engineering, entertainment, natural resources, mechanical testing, etc.AutoCAD® 2014 :ğile tabs, Design Feed ,Realty capture.AutoCAD® 2006 : (Dynamic block was introduced).AutoCAD® 2000 : March 1999 ( DWG 2000 file format was introduced).AutoCAD® version 1.0 :ĝecember 1982 (DWG r1.0 file was introduced).Transparent Allows display and settings commands to be executed without canceling the current command.The main events in the timeline of AutoCAD® are mentioned as: Toolbar Customizes, hides and displays toolbars Style Names and formats text for font, size, obliquing, etc Snap Allows you to snap to precise points along a grid Scale Factor The scaling up or down of an AutoCAD drawing to fit a certain size paper when plotted Scale Changes the size of objects to the selected scale factor Saveas Allows you to save the current drawing under a new name Save Saves the current drawing to hard drive Rotate Rotates selected objects to angle specified Redraw Refreshes the screen pixels in the drawing window
Redo Reverses the previous command if it was an undo Recover Attempts to recover damaged, or corrupted drawings Qsave Saves the drawing without requesting the file name Purge Removes unused items from a drawing Preferences Customizes the AutoCAD settings Polygon Creates regular polygons with a specified number of sides (3 to 1024) Osnap Allows for selection of precise points on selected objects Ortho Restricts the cursor to horizontal, or vertical use Oops Recalls the last set of objects that were erased Offset Creates parallel copies of lines, arcs, and circles Move Moves selected objects to another location in the drawing Mirror Creates a symmetrical reflected object from the original selected objects Ltscale Linetype Scale, controls linetype sizes within a drawing List Provides database information of selected objects Linetype Defines, loads, and sets the linetype Limits Defines the lower left corner and the upper right corner of a drawing area Layer Creates drawing layers for colors and linetypes Isoplane Changes the direction of the isometric crosshairs, Left, Top, Right
Id Displays the coordinates of a point selected on the drawing
Grid Displays a grid of dots that can be used to snap to and design with “DD” The DD before a command stand for “Dynamic Dialog” boxĭdedit (Edit) Edit text and attributes via a dialog boxĭdgrips (Grips) Allows you to enable grips and edit properties of objectsĭdim (Dim) Dialog that controls dimension settingsĭdinsert (Insert) Places blocks in the drawing via a dialog boxĭdunits (Units) Sets the drawing units for measurementĭimstyle Creates named dimension styles to control the settings and looks of dimensionsĭist Determines the distance and angle between two pointsĭivide Places markers along selected objects dividing them into equal partsĮxplode Changes a block or a polyline back to individual objectsĮxtend Extends a line or arc to meet another objectįillet Constructs an arc between to lines
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Please send me a note at if you have any questions.Īrea Calculates the area of a polygon, pline, circle, or defined points along a boundaryĪrray Copies selected objects in a circular, or rectangular patternĪutodesk Software company that manufactures and sells AutoCADīhatch Fills a defined boundary with a hatch patternīlock Makes a single unit object from selected individual objectsīlock Definition All the individual objects that make up a named blockīlock Reference An image of a block definition that is inserted into a drawingīmake Uses a dialog box to define a blockīoundary Creates a polyline of a closed areaĬhamfer Creates a chamfered corner at the intersection of two selected linesĬopy Makes one or more copies of selected objectsĬopyclip Copies selected objects to the Windows clipboard If you're new to AutoCAD, this will give you a very overview of definitions. Listed below is a basic list of AutoCAD terms and commands.