INTRODUCTION TO

AUTOCAD PART 2

Lab 8
CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
 Creating New Layers
 Assigning Colors to Layers
 Assigning Linetypes
 Assigning Lineweight
 Changing the Current Layer
 Editing Corners Using FILLET
 Editing Corners Using CHAMFER
 Using the ZOOM Command
 Zooming with the Scroll Wheel
 Entering Single-Line Text
 Creating a Template
 Saving a Template Drawing
 Using the MOVE Command
 Using the COPY Command
 Using the ARRAY Command—Rectangular Arrays
 SHOW LINEWEIGHT
• Lineweight: A value that specifies the width at which a line
will be displayed on the screen or in a printed drawing.
• Lineweight refers to the thickness of lines as they are
displayed and plotted. All lines are initially given a default
lineweight.
• Lineweights are assigned by layer and are displayed only if
the Lineweight button on the status bar is in the on position.
• Lineweight settings are most useful when correlated with
plotter pen sizes, so that you control the appearance of lines
in your plotted drawing. Your pen sizes may be in inches
rather than millimeters.
CREATING NEW LAYERS
• Layers allow you to treat specialized groups of entities
in your drawing separately from other groups.
• For example, all the dimensions in this book were drawn on a special
dimension layer so that we could turn them on and off at will.
• Fundamentally, layers are used to separate colors and linetypes,
and these, in turn, take on special significance, depending on the
drawing application.
• It is standard drafting practice, for example, to use small, evenly
spaced dashes to represent objects or edges that would, in reality,
be hidden from view.
• On a CAD system, these hidden lines can be put on an independent
layer so they can be turned on and off, and given their own color to
make it easy for the designer to remember what layer he or she is
working on.
CREATING NEW LAYERS
THE LAYER PROPERTIES MANAGER DIALOG BOX
 The creation and
specification of layers
and layer properties in
AutoCAD is handled
through the Layer
Properties Manager
dialog box.
 CREATING NEW LAYERS
 General Procedure
 Select the Layer Properties tool from
the ribbon.
 Click the New Layer icon.
 Type in a layer name.
 Repeat for other new layers.
 Click OK to close the dialog box.
 Layers allow you to treat
specialized groups of entities in
your drawing separately from
other groups.
ASSIGNING COLORS TO LAYERS
 General Procedure
 From the Layer Properties
Manager dialog box, pick the
color icon in the row for the
layer you want to change.
 In the Select Color dialog
box, select a color from the
index color chart or type a
color name or number in the
edit box.
 Click OK.
 ASSIGNING LINETYPES

 General Procedure
 From the Layer
Properties Manager
dialog box, click in the
Linetype column of the
layer you want to set.
 In the Select Linetype
dialog box, select a
linetype. If necessary, load
linetypes first.
 Click OK.
 Click OK again to exit the
dialog box.
ASSIGNING LINEWEIGHT
 General Procedure
 From the Layer Properties
Manager, click in the Lineweight
column of the layer you want to
change.
 In the Lineweight dialog box,
select a lineweight.
 Click OK.
 Click OK again to exit the dialog
box.
 Lineweight refers to the
thickness of lines as they are
displayed and plotted.
ASSIGNING LINEWEIGHT
 CHANGING THE CURRENT LAYER
 General Procedure
 Open the Layer list from the Layers panel of the
ribbon.
 Double-click on a layer name.

or
 Pickthe Layer drop down mean tool from the
Home panel of the ribbon.
 Select an layer you wish to make current.

 Previously drawn objects on other layers are

also visible, but new objects go on the
current layer.
CHANGING THE CURRENT LAYER
MAKING AN OBJECT’S LAYER CURRENT
CHANGING LINETYPE SCALE
 General Procedure
 Type lts ↵.
 Enter a new value.
 While you have objects on your screen with hidden
and center lines it is a good time to demonstrate
the importance of linetype scale.
 The size of the individual dashes and spaces that
make up center lines, hidden lines, and other
linetypes is determined by a global setting called
LTSCALE.
EDITING CORNERS USING FILLET
 General Procedure
 Pick the Fillet tool from the ribbon, or type “F” ↵.
 Right-click and select Radius from the shortcut menu.
 Enter a radius value.
 Select two lines that meet at a corner.
 Fillets are concave curves on corners and edges,
while rounds are convex. AutoCAD uses the
FILLET command to refer to both.
 Chamfers are cut on an angle rather than a curve.
 The FILLET and CHAMFER commands work
similarly.
EDITING CORNERS USING
CHAMFER
 General Procedure
 Pick the Chamfer tool from the Fillet flyout on the ribbon.
 Right-click and select Distance from the shortcut menu.
 Enter a chamfer distance.
 Enter a second chamfer distance or press Enter for an even chamfer.
 Select two lines that meet at a corner.
 The CHAMFER command sequence is almost identical to the
FILLET command, with the exception that chamfers can be uneven.
 That is, you can cut back farther on one side of a corner than on the
other.
USING THE ZOOM COMMAND
 General Procedure Right Click
 Pick the Zoom tool from the Navigation
bar.
 Select All to view entire drawing windows
 Enter values to magnify by.
 When drawings get complex, it often
becomes necessary to work in detail
on small portions of the drawing
space.
 Especially with a small monitor, the
only way to do this is by making the
detailed area larger on the screen.
 This is done easily with the ZOOM
command.
PANNING WITH THE SCROLL WHEEL
Panning with the mouse is equally simple and does everything
the PAN command will do.
Press the scroll wheel down gently, so that it
clicks, and hold it down.

If you do not see the pan cursor, you can

select it from the Navigation bar on the right
of the drawing area

Navigation bar
 ENTERING SINGLE-LINE TEXT
 General Procedure
 Pick the Single Line Text tool from the Annotation panel of the ribbon.
 Pick a start point.
 Answer prompts regarding height and rotation.
 Enter text on one line and press Enter.
 Enter text on other lines or press Enter to exit the command.
 AutoCAD has many options for drawing text.
 The simplest allows you to enter single lines of text and
displays them as you type.
 You can backspace through lines to make corrections if you
do not exit the command.
ENTERING SINGLE-LINE TEXT
USING THE MOVE COMMAND
 General Procedure
 Pick the Move tool from the Modify panel of the
ribbon.
 Define a selection set. (If noun/verb selection is
enabled, you can reverse Steps 1 and 2.)
 Choose the base point of a displacement.
 Choose a second point.
USING THE MOVE COMMAND
USING THE MOVE COMMAND
MOVING WITH GRIPS
 There is one more way to use the
MOVE command.
 Instead of showing AutoCAD a

distance and direction, you can type a

horizontal and vertical displacement.
CREATING CENTER MARKS
 General Procedure
 Type “dim” ↵.
 Type “cen” ↵.
 Select a circle.
 Here we use the simplest of all dimension
objects, the center mark.
USING THE COPY COMMAND
• A general procedure for using the COPY command is:

1. Pick the Copy tool from the Modify panel of the ribbon.
2. Define a selection set. (Steps 1 and 2 can be reversed if noun/verb
selection is enabled.)
3. Choose a base point.
4. Choose a second point.
5. Choose another second point or press <Enter> to exit the command.
USING THE COPY RIBBON
COPYING WITH GRIPS
The grip editing system includes a variety of special techniques
for creating multiple copies in all five modes. The function of the
Copy option differs depending on the Grip Edit mode. For now,
we use the Copy option with the Move mode, which provides a
shortcut for the same kind of process you just executed with the
COPY command.

Circles highlighted
with grips