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AutoCAD 2022

A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users

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Sandeep Dogra

AutoCAD 2022

A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users

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Contents at a Glance

Chapter 1. Introduction to AutoCAD .................................................................................................................... 17 - 58 Chapter 2. Creating Drawings - I .......................................................................................................................... 59 - 108 Chapter 3. Working with Drawing Aids and Layers ...................................................................................... 109 - 160 Chapter 4. Creating Drawings - II ....................................................................................................................... 161 - 210 Chapter 5. Modifying and Editing Drawings - I .............................................................................................. 211 - 266 Chapter 6. Working with Dimensions and Dimension Styles .................................................................. 267 - 332 Chapter 7. Editing Dimensions and Adding Text ........................................................................................... 333 - 364 Chapter 8. Modifying and Editing Drawings - II ............................................................................................ 365 - 380 Chapter 9. Creating Hatches and Gradients ................................................................................................ 381 - 392 Chapter 10. Working with Blocks and Xrefs .................................................................................................... 393 - 428 Chapter 11. Working with Layouts ...................................................................................................................... 429 - 456 Chapter 12. Printing and Plotting ....................................................................................................................... 457 - 488 Chapter 13. Introducing 3D Basics and Creating 3D Models .................................................................... 489 - 538

INDEX .................................................................................................................................................... 539 - 546

Table of Contents Dedication .............................................................................................................. 3 Preface ................................................................................................................... 13 Chapter 1. Introduction to AutoCAD .......................................................... 17 - 58

Installing AutoCAD ................................................................................................................................................... 18 Getting Started with AutoCAD ............................................................................................................................ 18 Starting a New Drawing File ................................................................................................................................... 24 Working with Various Components of a Drawing .......................................................................................... 27 Application Menu ............................................................................................................................................. 27 Quick Access Toolbar ...................................................................................................................................... 28 Ribbon ................................................................................................................................................................... 28 InfoCenter ........................................................................................................................................................... 30 Command Line Window ................................................................................................................................. 31 ViewCube ............................................................................................................................................................. 31 Navigation Bar .................................................................................................................................................... 33 Status Bar ............................................................................................................................................................. 34 Starting a New Drawing File by using the Create New Drawing dialog box ......................................... 40 Starting a New Drawing file from Scratch ................................................................................................. 41 Starting a New Drawing file by using a Template ................................................................................... 41 Starting a New Drawing file by using a Wizard ....................................................................................... 42 Changing the Color Theme .................................................................................................................................... 45 Changing the Background Color .......................................................................................................................... 47 Working with Workspaces ...................................................................................................................................... 48 Switching between Workspaces .................................................................................................................. 48 Creating a New Workspace ........................................................................................................................... 48 Working with Sheet Sets ......................................................................................................................................... 49 Creating an Example Sheet Set .................................................................................................................... 49 Creating an Existing Drawing Sheet Set .................................................................................................... 53 Saving a Drawing File ................................................................................................................................................ 54 Opening a Drawing File ............................................................................................................................................ 56 Sharing a Drawing File ............................................................................................................................................... 57 Summary ....................................................................................................................................................................... 58 Questions ..................................................................................................................................................................... 58

Chapter 2. Creating Drawings - I ............................................................... 59 - 108

Setting up Drawing Units ........................................................................................................................................ 59 Setting Drawing Limits ............................................................................................................................................. 63 Specifying Grid and Snap Settings ....................................................................................................................... 64 Understanding Coordinate Systems ................................................................................................................... 67 Cartesian Coordinate System ...................................................................................................................... 68 Polar Coordinate System ................................................................................................................................. 71 Creating a Drawing .................................................................................................................................................... 73

6 Table of Contents Drawing a Line ............................................................................................................................................................. 74 Tutorial 1 ........................................................................................................................................................................ 76 Hands-on Test Drive 1 .............................................................................................................................................. 78 Tutorial 2 ....................................................................................................................................................................... 79 Hands-on Test Drive 2 .............................................................................................................................................. 81 Drawing a Circle .......................................................................................................................................................... 81 Drawing a Circle by Defining Center Point and Radius ....................................................................... 82 Drawing a Circle by Defining Center Point and Diameter .................................................................. 82 Drawing a Circle by Defining 2 Points ........................................................................................................ 83 Drawing a Circle by Defining 3 Points ........................................................................................................ 84 Drawing a Circle by Defining Two Tangent Points and Radius ......................................................... 85 Drawing a Circle by Defining Three Tangent Points ............................................................................. 86 Drawing an Arc ............................................................................................................................................................ 87 Drawing an Arc by Defining 3 Points .......................................................................................................... 87 Drawing an Arc by Defining Start, Center, and End Points ................................................................ 88 Drawing an Arc by Defining Start Point, Center Point, and Angle ................................................... 89 Drawing an Arc by Defining Start Point, Center Point, and Length ................................................ 90 Drawing an Arc by Defining Start Point, End Point, and Angle ........................................................ 90 Drawing an Arc by Defining Start Point, End Point, and Direction .................................................. 91 Drawing an Arc by Defining Start Point, End Point, and Radius ........................................................ 91 Drawing an Arc by Defining Center Point, Start Point, and End Point ........................................... 91 Drawing an Arc by Defining Center Point, Start Point, and Angle .................................................. 92 Drawing an Arc by Defining Center Point, Start Point, and Length ................................................ 92 Drawing an Arc by using the Continue Tool ............................................................................................ 93 Canceling, Erasing and Restoring Objects ........................................................................................................ 93 Navigating 2D Drawings .......................................................................................................................................... 94 Zoom ..................................................................................................................................................................... 94 Zoom Realtime .................................................................................................................................................. 94 Zoom All ............................................................................................................................................................... 95 Zoom Window ................................................................................................................................................... 96 Zoom Previous ................................................................................................................................................... 97 Zoom Extents ..................................................................................................................................................... 97 Zoom In ................................................................................................................................................................ 97 Zoom Out ............................................................................................................................................................ 97 Pan .......................................................................................................................................................................... 98 Tutorial 3 ....................................................................................................................................................................... 99 Tutorial 4 ..................................................................................................................................................................... 102 Hands-on Test Drive 3 ........................................................................................................................................... 107 Hands-on Test Drive 4 .......................................................................................................................................... 107 Summary ..................................................................................................................................................................... 108 Questions ................................................................................................................................................................... 108

Chapter 3. Working with Drawing Aids and Layers ............................... 109 - 160

Working with Ortho Mode ................................................................................................................................... 109 Tutorial 1 ....................................................................................................................................................................... 110 Working with Polar Tracking ................................................................................................................................. 112 Tutorial 2 ....................................................................................................................................................................... 114

AutoCAD 2022: A Power Guide > 7 Working with Object Snap ..................................................................................................................................... 117 Working with Object Snap Tracking .................................................................................................................. 119 Working with Layers ................................................................................................................................................. 121 Creating a New Layer ..................................................................................................................................... 122 Setting the Current Layer .............................................................................................................................. 123 Assigning Color to a Layer ............................................................................................................................ 124 Assigning Linetype to a Layer ...................................................................................................................... 125 Assigning Lineweight to a Layer ................................................................................................................. 127 Turning a Layer On or Off ............................................................................................................................. 128 Freezing a Layer ............................................................................................................................................... 128 Locking or Unlocking a Layer ...................................................................................................................... 129 Deleting a Layer ............................................................................................................................................... 129 Setting Transparency of a Layer ................................................................................................................. 130 Restricting a Layer from Plotting ............................................................................................................... 130 Freezing a Layer in New Viewports ........................................................................................................... 130 Freezing the New Layer in All Viewports ................................................................................................. 131 Toggle Override Highlight ..............................................................................................................................131 Assigning Objects to a Layer ................................................................................................................................ 133 Tutorial 3 ............................................................................................................................................................. 134 Tutorial 4 ............................................................................................................................................................. 147 Hands-on Test Drive 1 ................................................................................................................................... 159 Summary ............................................................................................................................................................ 160 Questions .......................................................................................................................................................... 160

Chapter 4. Creating Drawings - II ............................................................. 161 - 210

Drawing a Rectangle ................................................................................................................................................ 161 Drawing a Rectangle by Specifying Diagonally Opposite Corners ................................................ 162 Drawing a Rectangle by Specifying its Area and One Side .............................................................. 163 Drawing a Rectangle by Specifying Dimensions .................................................................................. 164 Drawing a Rectangle at an Angle ............................................................................................................... 165 Drawing a Rectangle with Chamfer .......................................................................................................... 166 Drawing a Rectangle with Fillets ................................................................................................................ 167 Drawing a Rectangle with Elevation ......................................................................................................... 168 Drawing a Rectangle with Thickness ........................................................................................................ 169 Drawing a Rectangle with Width ............................................................................................................... 170 Drawing a Polygon ..................................................................................................................................................... 171 Inscribed Polygon ............................................................................................................................................. 171 Circumscribed Polygon .................................................................................................................................. 171 Drawing a Polyline .................................................................................................................................................... 172 Drawing a Polyline with Line Segments ................................................................................................... 173 Drawing a Polyline with Line and Arc Segments ................................................................................... 173 Drawing a Polyline with Width .................................................................................................................... 176 Drawing a Polyline with Halfwidth ............................................................................................................. 177 Drawing an Ellipse .................................................................................................................................................... 178 Drawing an Ellipse by Using the Axis, End Tool .................................................................................... 178 Drawing an Ellipse by Using the Center Tool ......................................................................................... 179 Drawing an Elliptical Arc ....................................................................................................................................... 180

8 Table of Contents Drawing a Spline ........................................................................................................................................................ 181 Drawing a Spline by Using the Spline Fit Tool ....................................................................................... 182 Drawing a Spline by Using the Spline CV Tool ...................................................................................... 184 Drawing Donuts ........................................................................................................................................................ 185 Drawing Construction and Ray lines ................................................................................................................. 186 Drawing Construction Lines ........................................................................................................................ 187 Drawing Ray Lines ............................................................................................................................................ 191 Drawing Points and Defining Point Style/Size ................................................................................................ 192 Drawing Reference Points ............................................................................................................................ 192 Defining the Point Style and Point Size .................................................................................................... 192 Tutorial 1 ...................................................................................................................................................................... 194 Tutorial 2 .................................................................................................................................................................... 200 Tutorial 3 ..................................................................................................................................................................... 205 Hands-on Test Drive 1 ........................................................................................................................................... 209 Hands-on Test Drive 2 .......................................................................................................................................... 209 Summary ..................................................................................................................................................................... 210 Questions ................................................................................................................................................................... 210

Chapter 5. Modifying and Editing Drawings - I ....................................... 211 - 266

Working with Object Selection Methods ........................................................................................................ 212 Window Selection Method .......................................................................................................................... 212 Cross Window Selection Method ............................................................................................................. 212 Invoking a Selection Method within a Command......................................................................................... 213 Window Selection Method........................................................................................................................... 213 Cross Window Selection Method............................................................................................................... 213 All Selection Method...................................................................................................................................... 214 Cross Polygon Selection Method............................................................................................................... 214 Window Polygon Selection Method.......................................................................................................... 214 Fence Selection Method................................................................................................................................ 215 Last Selection Method................................................................................................................................... 215 Trimming Drawing Entities ................................................................................................................................... 216 Extending Drawing Entities ................................................................................................................................... 218 Working with Arrays ............................................................................................................................................... 220 Creating a Rectangular Array ..................................................................................................................... 220 Creating a Polar/Circular Array .................................................................................................................. 222 Creating a Path Array ..................................................................................................................................... 223 Mirroring Drawing Entities ................................................................................................................................... 224 Filleting Drawing Entities ...................................................................................................................................... 226 Chamfering Drawing Entities .............................................................................................................................. 229 Creating a Chamfer by Using the Distance distance Method ....................................................... 229 Creating a Chamfer by Using the Angle distance Method .............................................................. 230 Offsetting Drawing Entities .................................................................................................................................. 231 Moving Drawing Objects ...................................................................................................................................... 233 Copying Drawing Objects ..................................................................................................................................... 234 Rotating Drawing Objects .................................................................................................................................... 235 Scaling Drawing Objects ....................................................................................................................................... 236 Stretching Drawing Objects ................................................................................................................................. 238

AutoCAD 2022: A Power Guide > 9 Lengthening Drawing Objects ............................................................................................................................ 239 Lengthening an Object by Specifying Delta Value ............................................................................. 239 Lengthening an Object by Specifying Percentage .............................................................................. 240 Lengthening an Object by Specifying Total Length .......................................................................... 240 Lengthening an Object by Dragging ......................................................................................................... 241 Tutorial 1 ...................................................................................................................................................................... 242 Tutorial 2 ..................................................................................................................................................................... 246 Tutorial 3 ..................................................................................................................................................................... 252 Hands-0n Test Drive 1 ........................................................................................................................................... 264 Hands-0n Test Drive 2 ........................................................................................................................................... 265 Hands-0n Test Drive 3 ........................................................................................................................................... 265 Summary .................................................................................................................................................................... 266 Questions .................................................................................................................................................................. 266

Chapter 6. Working with Dimensions and Dimension Styles ............... 267 - 332

Working with Components of a Dimension .................................................................................................. 268 Creating a New Dimension Style ....................................................................................................................... 270 Modifying an Existing Dimension Style ........................................................................................................... 293 Overriding a Dimension Style ............................................................................................................................. 295 Applying Dimensions ............................................................................................................................................ 296 Applying a Linear Dimension ..................................................................................................................... 298 Applying an Aligned Dimension .............................................................................................................. 300 Applying an Angular Dimension ............................................................................................................... 301 Applying an Arc Length Dimension ........................................................................................................ 304 Applying a Radius Dimension .................................................................................................................... 305 Applying a Diameter Dimension .............................................................................................................. 305 Applying a Jogged Radius Dimension ..................................................................................................... 306 Applying a Jogged Linear Dimension ...................................................................................................... 307 Applying an Ordinate Dimension ............................................................................................................. 308 Applying Baseline Dimensions .................................................................................................................. 309 Applying Continue Dimensions .................................................................................................................. 311 Applying Multiple Dimensions ................................................................................................................... 313 Tutorial 1 ....................................................................................................................................................................... 314 Hands-0n Test Drive 1 ........................................................................................................................................... 328 Hands-0n Test Drive 2 ........................................................................................................................................... 329 Hands-0n Test Drive 3 ........................................................................................................................................... 330 Hands-0n Test Drive 4 ............................................................................................................................................ 331 Summary ...................................................................................................................................................................... 331 Questions ................................................................................................................................................................... 332

Chapter 7. Editing Dimensions and Adding Text ................................... 333 - 364

Editing Dimensions by using DIMEDIT Command ..................................................................................... 334 Specifying the New Dimension Text/Value ........................................................................................... 334 Rotating the Dimension Text ...................................................................................................................... 334 Restoring the Dimension Text to Original Position ............................................................................ 335 Changing the Oblique Angle of Extension Lines ................................................................................. 335 Editing Dimensions by using DIMTEDIT Command ................................................................................. 336

10 Table of Contents Editing Dimensions by using DDEDIT Command ...................................................................................... 337 Editing Dimensions by using Dimension Grips ............................................................................................. 337 Changing the Position of Dimension Text ............................................................................................. 338 Changing the Space between Dimension Line and Object ............................................................ 339 Changing the Position of Extension Lines ............................................................................................. 339 Editing Dimensions by using PROPERTIES Palette .................................................................................... 340 Editing Dimensions by using Editing Tools ...................................................................................................... 341 Editing Dimensions by using the Trim Tool ............................................................................................ 341 Editing Dimensions by using the Extend Tool ...................................................................................... 342 Editing Dimensions by using the Stretch Tool ...................................................................................... 343 Adding Text/Notes ................................................................................................................................................. 344 Creating and Modifying a Text Style ........................................................................................................ 344 Adding Text by using the Single Line Tool .............................................................................................. 345 Adding Text by using the Multiline Text Tool ....................................................................................... 347 Editing Single line and Multiline Text ............................................................................................................... 349 Converting Single line Text to Multiline Text ................................................................................................ 349 Tutorial 1 ...................................................................................................................................................................... 350 Tutorial 2 ..................................................................................................................................................................... 359 Hands-0n Test Drive 1 ........................................................................................................................................... 363 Summary ..................................................................................................................................................................... 363 Questions ................................................................................................................................................................... 363

Chapter 8. Modifying and Editing Drawings - II .................................... 365 - 380

Editing Objects by using Grips ............................................................................................................................ 365 Stretching Objects by using Grips ............................................................................................................ 366 Moving Objects by using Grips .................................................................................................................. 366 Rotating Objects by using Grips ................................................................................................................ 367 Scaling Objects by using Grips ................................................................................................................... 368 Mirroring Objects by using Grips .............................................................................................................. 368 Editing Objects by using PROPERTIES Palette ............................................................................................ 369 Matching Properties of an Object ..................................................................................................................... 369 Identifying Coordinates of a Point ...................................................................................................................... 371 Tutorial 1 ....................................................................................................................................................................... 371 Hands-0n Test Drive 1 ............................................................................................................................................ 378 Hands-0n Test Drive 2 ........................................................................................................................................... 379 Summary ..................................................................................................................................................................... 379 Questions ................................................................................................................................................................... 379

Chapter 9. Creating Hatches and Gradients .......................................... 381 - 392

Creating the Hatches ............................................................................................................................................. 382 Creating the Gradients .......................................................................................................................................... 385 Tutorial 1 ...................................................................................................................................................................... 387 Hands-0n Test Drive 1 ........................................................................................................................................... 390 Hands-0n Test Drive 2 ........................................................................................................................................... 391 Summary ..................................................................................................................................................................... 391 Questions ................................................................................................................................................................... 391

AutoCAD 2022: A Power Guide > 11 Chapter 10. Working with Blocks and Xrefs ........................................... 393 - 428

Creating a Block ....................................................................................................................................................... 394 Inserting a Block into a Drawing ......................................................................................................................... 398 Creating a WBlock .................................................................................................................................................. 403 Inserting a WBlock into a Drawing .................................................................................................................... 405 Editing a Block .......................................................................................................................................................... 406 Making a Dynamic Block ...................................................................................................................................... 408 Working with External References (Xrefs) ...................................................................................................... 413 Tutorial 1 ....................................................................................................................................................................... 417 Hands-0n Test Drive 1 ............................................................................................................................................ 427 Summary ..................................................................................................................................................................... 427 Questions ................................................................................................................................................................... 428

Chapter 11. Working with Layouts .......................................................... 429 - 456

Getting Started with Paper Space/Layout ...................................................................................................... 430 Understanding Different Components of a Layout ................................................................................... 430 Setting up the Sheet/Paper Size for a Layout ................................................................................................. 431 Adding, Renaming, and Deleting a Layout ...................................................................................................... 433 Working with Viewports ........................................................................................................................................ 434 Editing a Viewport ........................................................................................................................................... 435 Deleting a Viewport ....................................................................................................................................... 436 Creating Viewports ........................................................................................................................................ 436 Accessing the Model Space within a Viewport ............................................................................................. 442 Clipping a Viewport ................................................................................................................................................ 443 Locking the Object Scale in a Viewport .......................................................................................................... 444 Controlling the Display of Objects in a Viewport ........................................................................................ 445 Controlling Layers Properties for Viewports .................................................................................................. 445 Viewport Freeze .............................................................................................................................................. 446 Viewport Color ................................................................................................................................................ 446 Switching to the Model Space ............................................................................................................................ 447 Creating Viewports in the Model Space ......................................................................................................... 447 Viewport Configuration ............................................................................................................................... 448 Joining Two Viewports ........................................................................................................................................... 448 Restoring Viewports ............................................................................................................................................... 449 Tutorial 1 ..................................................................................................................................................................... 449 Hands-0n Test Drive 1 ........................................................................................................................................... 454 Hands-0n Test Drive 2 ........................................................................................................................................... 455 Summary ..................................................................................................................................................................... 455 Questions ................................................................................................................................................................... 455

Chapter 12. Printing and Plotting ............................................................ 457 - 488

Configuring a Plotter (Output Device) ............................................................................................................ 457 Creating a Plot Style ............................................................................................................................................... 460 Setting up a Default Plot Style ............................................................................................................................ 465 Plotting a Drawing ................................................................................................................................................... 467 Tutorial 1 ...................................................................................................................................................................... 474 Tutorial 2 ..................................................................................................................................................................... 478

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Hands-0n Test Drive 1 ........................................................................................................................................... 487 Hands-0n Test Drive 2 ........................................................................................................................................... 487 Summary .................................................................................................................................................................... 488 Questions ................................................................................................................................................................... 488

Chapter 13. Introducing 3D Basics and Creating 3D Models ................ 489 - 538

Invoking the 3D Modeling/3D Basics Workspace ....................................................................................... 490 Creating 3D Primitives ............................................................................................................................................ 491 Creating a 3D Solid Box ................................................................................................................................ 492 Creating a 3D Solid Cylinder ....................................................................................................................... 493 Creating a 3D Solid Cone ............................................................................................................................. 495 Creating a 3D Solid Sphere .......................................................................................................................... 495 Creating a 3D Solid Pyramid ....................................................................................................................... 496 Creating a 3D Solid Wedge .......................................................................................................................... 497 Creating a 3D Solid Torus ............................................................................................................................ 498 Creating 3D Models ................................................................................................................................................ 498 Working with World Coordinate System (WCS) ........................................................................................ 499 Working with User Coordinate System (UCS) ............................................................................................. 500 Setting Work Plane to Predefined Orthographic View .............................................................................. 505 Working with Dynamic UCS ............................................................................................................................... 506 Controlling the Display of the UCS.................................................................................................................... 507 Creating an Extrude Feature ............................................................................................................................... 508 Converting a Closed Sketch into a Region ...................................................................................................... 510 Creating a Revolve Feature .................................................................................................................................... 511 Creating a Sweep Feature ...................................................................................................................................... 512 Creating a Loft Feature ........................................................................................................................................... 514 Working with Presspull Tool ................................................................................................................................. 517 Creating a 3D Wall-like Polysolid ........................................................................................................................ 518 Performing Boolean Operations ......................................................................................................................... 519 Combining Solid Bodies ............................................................................................................................... 520 Subtracting Solid Bodies .............................................................................................................................. 520 Intersecting Solid Bodies .............................................................................................................................. 521 Checking Interference between Bodies .......................................................................................................... 522 Copying Edges of a Solid Feature ....................................................................................................................... 522 Performing Modifying Operations .................................................................................................................... 524 Tutorial 1 ...................................................................................................................................................................... 525 Hands-0n Test Drive 1 ............................................................................................................................................ 535 Hands-0n Test Drive 2 ........................................................................................................................................... 536 Hands-0n Test Drive 3 ........................................................................................................................................... 537 Summary ..................................................................................................................................................................... 537 Questions ................................................................................................................................................................... 538 INDEX ........................................................................................................................ 539 - 546

AutoCAD 2022: A Power Guide > 13

Preface AutoCAD, a product of Autodesk Inc., is one of the biggest providers of technology to engineering, architecture, construction, manufacturing, media, and entertainment industries. It is a complete software that lets you design, visualize, simulate, and publish your ideas before they are built or created. Moreover, Autodesk continues to develop a comprehensive portfolio of state-of-the-art 3D software for the global market. AutoCAD delivers a rich set of high productivity tools and commands that allow you to create stunning designs, speed up the documentation work, and add precision to your engineering and architectural drawings. AutoCAD is extremely versatile in its ability to create 2D and 3D drawings. With AutoCAD, you can share your designs with your clients, sub-contractors, and colleagues in more efficient ways. AutoCAD 2022: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users textbook is designed for instructor-led courses as well as for self-paced learning. It is intended to help engineers, designers, and CAD operators interested in learning AutoCAD for creating 2D engineering drawings as well as 3D Models. This textbook is a great help for new AutoCAD users and a great teaching aid for classroom training. This textbook consists of 13 chapters, and a total of 546 pages covering major workspaces of AutoCAD such as Drafting & Annotation and 3D Modeling. This textbook teaches you to use AutoCAD software for creating, editing, plotting, and managing real world 2D engineering drawings and 3D Models. This textbook not only focuses on the usage of the tools/commands of AutoCAD but also on the concept of design. Every chapter of this textbook contains tutorials that provide users with step-by-step instructions on how to create mechanical designs and drawings with ease. Moreover, every chapter ends with hands-on test drives which allow users to experience themselves the user friendly and powerful capabilities of AutoCAD.

Who Should Read This Textbook

This textbook is written to benefit a wide range of AutoCAD users, varying from beginners to advanced users as well as AutoCAD instructors. The easy-to-follow chapters of this book allow you to understand different design techniques and AutoCAD tools/commands easily.

What Is Covered in This Textbook

AutoCAD 2022: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users textbook is designed to help you learn everything you need to know to start using AutoCAD 2022 with straightforward, step-by-step tutorials. This book covers the following topics: Chapter 1, “Introduction to AutoCAD,” introduces system requirements for installing AutoCAD and explains how to start a new drawing file. It also introduces screen components, workspaces, and sheet

14 Preface sets of AutoCAD. Additionally, it explains how to change the color theme, background color, and open, save, and share drawing files in AutoCAD. Chapter 2, “Creating Drawings - I,” introduces how to set drawing units, drawing limits, and grid and snap settings. It also introduces various coordinate systems used in AutoCAD and explains how to create a line, circle, and arc entities in AutoCAD. Additionally, it explains how to cancel, erase, undo, and navigate 2D drawings. Chapter 3, “Working with Drawing Aids and Layers,” introduces Ortho mode, Polar Tracking, Object Snap, and Object Snap Tracking. It also explains how to specify grids and snaps settings. Additionally, it explains how to work with layers and assign objects to layers. Chapter 4, “Creating Drawings - II,” introduces how to create rectangles, polygons, polylines, ellipses, elliptical arcs, splines, donuts, construction lines, ray lines, and points. It also describes how to define point style/size. Chapter 5, “Modifying and Editing Drawings - I,” introduces various object selection methods and methods for trimming and extending drawing entities. It also explains how to mirror, fillet, chamfer, offset, move, copy, rotate, scale, stretch, and lengthen drawing entities, and create arrays. Chapter 6, “Working with Dimensions and Dimension Styles,” introduces various components of a dimension, methods for creating a new dimension style, modifying the existing dimension style, and overriding dimension style. It also explains how to apply various types of dimensions such as linear dimension, aligned dimension, angular dimension, diameter dimension, radius dimension, jogged dimension, ordinate dimension, and baseline dimension. Chapter 7, “Editing Dimensions and Adding Text,” introduces methods for modifying dimensions by using the DIMEDIT command, DIMTEDIT command, DDEDIT command, dimension grips, Properties palette, and editing tools such as Trim, Extend, and Stretch. It also explains how to add text/notes to drawings, create and modify text style, and add text by using the Single Line and Multiline Text tools. Moreover, it also describes how to edit single line and multiline texts, and how to convert a single line text to multiline text. Chapter 8, “Modifying and Editing Drawings - II,” introduces methods for editing drawing entities by using the grips and the Properties palette. It also discusses about matching the properties of an object with the other drawing objects, and how to identify the coordinates of a point in a drawing. Chapter 9, “Creating Hatches and Gradients,” introduces methods for creating different types of hatch patterns and gradients in enclosed areas of a drawing. Chapter 10, “Working with Blocks and Xrefs,” introduces methods for creating and inserting a Block and WBlock into a drawing alongwith, methods for editing Blocks and making Dynamic Blocks. It also explains how to work with external reference files (Xrefs). Chapter 11, “Working with Layouts,” explains how to get started with a Paper space/layout and introduces different components of a layout (Paper space). It also explains how to set up sheet/paper size of a layout, how to add, rename, and delete a layout. It also discusses how to work with viewports, access the Model space within a viewport, clip a viewport, lock the object scale in a viewport, control the

AutoCAD 2022: A Power Guide > 15 display of objects in a viewport, and control layer properties of a viewport. Additionally, it explains how to switch between the Model space and layout, and how to create viewports in the Model space. Chapter 12, “Printing and Plotting,” introduces methods for configuring a plotter (output device) in AutoCAD. It also explains how to create a plot style and set up the default plot style for plotting/printing. Additionally, it introduces how to plot/print drawings in AutoCAD. Chapter 13, “Introducing 3D Basics and Creating 3D Models,” discusses about creating 3D Models in the 3D Modeling workspace. It explains how to create various 3D primitives such as box, cylinder, sphere, cone, and torus. The chapter introduces World Coordinate System (WCS) and User Coordinate System (UCS). It also explains how to set the work plane to a predefined orthographic view, work with Dynamic UCS, and control the display of UCS. Besides, it describes how to create extrude, revolve, sweep, loft, and 3D wall-like polysolid features of a 3D model. It also introduces methods for performing various boolean operations, checking interference, and copying edges of a solid feature.

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Note Note: Notes highlight information which requires special attention.

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Flyout

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Drop-down List

A drop-down list is a pop-up in which a set of options is grouped together to perform a task, see Figure 2.

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AutoCAD 2022: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users

This textbook is designed for instructor-led courses as well as for self-paced learning. It is intended to help engineers, designers, and CAD operators interested in learning AutoCAD for creating 2D engineering drawings as well as 3D Models. This textbook is a great help for new AutoCAD users and a great teaching aid for classroom training. This textbook consists of 13 chapters, and a total of 546 pages covering major workspaces of AutoCAD such as Drafting & Annotation and 3D Modeling. This textbook teaches you to use AutoCAD software for creating, editing, plotting, and managing real world 2D engineering drawings and 3D Models. Every chapter of this textbook contains tutorials that provide users with step-by-step instructions on how to create mechanical designs and drawings with ease. Moreover, every chapter ends with hands-on test drives which allow users to experience themselves the user friendly and powerful capabilities of AutoCAD.

Main Features of the Textbook • • • • • • •

Comprehensive coverage of tools Step-by-step real-world tutorials with every chapter Hands-on test drives at the end of every chapter to enhance the skills Additional notes and tips Customized content for faculty (PowerPoint Presentations) Free learning resources for faculty and students Technical support for the book by contacting [email protected]

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