COMPUTER AIDED REVIEWER
- Endpoint (square)
AutoCAD - Not recommended for 3D
- recommended for plant layouts, floor
plan, electrical plans, sanitary plans,
etc.
IWCAD - Recommended softwares for 3D
modelling:
- Fusion 360
- Solidworks
- Inventor
- Revit
ENGINEERING DRAWING
1) How to draw an Engineering plan
based on standard
2) How to interpret the plan
AUTOCAD SOFTWARE IU PARTS
Drawing Area {Model Space) - Where you
draw objects.
Status Bar - Bottom right of Drawing Area
and where settings for cursor drawing,
display, workspace, viewports, snaps,
workspace, and other customizations are
located.
Status Bar settings:
Model - Change to Model space or Paper
space.
Snap Mode - Restricts movement.
Orthomode- Restricts cursor to drawing
only vertical or horizontal lines.
Polar Tracking - Lines drawn at specified
angles will be a broken line.
LWDISPLAY - When on, it displays
lineweight customization done in layers
(color, lineweight thickness, transparency)
Object Snap Mode - snaps cursor to
selected 2d reference points
Common Reference Points:
- Midpoint (triangle)
- Center (circle)
- Intersection (cross)
- Parallel (two parallel broken lines)
Command Line (below Drawing Area)
- Where you type commands)
Commands - Shortcut keys that perform
specific function when activated (example:
drawing objects, moving objects, erasing
objects)
Layout Space - space you can lay out
drawn objects.
Ribbon Tab - where toolbars are located
Home tab - most frequently used tab in
ribbon tab.
Layer Customization
Layer Properties - where you can:
- add, freeze, delete, and select a layer as
current layer
- Customize layer properties (color, linetype,
lineweight, transparency)
Multi selection
● Green area - selects objects that
touched the green area (even partially)
Left click then move cursor to left to create a
rectangular selection area, move cursor to
left while left clicking to create a crooked
selection area
● Blue area - selects objects that are
fully covered by the blue area.
Left click then move cursor to right to create
a rectangular selection area, move cursor to
right while left clicking to create a crooked
selection area
COMMANDS:
Esc button - used for exiting a command in
use
Space bar - used for reusing a command in
use
Fillet (F) - Turns a sharp corner into a
rounded corner with specified radius.
Line (L) - creates a line
Circle (C) - creates a circle
C + space + select center point + number
( optional, to specify radius length)
Array (Ar) - creates object copies along a
specified path (rectangular, path, polar)
Erase (E)- deletes selected objects.
Offset (O) - copies a selected object with
specified distance from it
Explode (X) - separates grouped objects
Locate drawing - z + space + e (extend) +
space
Mirror (Mi) - copies a selected object on the
opposite specified mirror line
Trim (Tr) - trims a select part of an object
(used for exploded objects)
Copy (Co) - copies a selected object
Extend (Ex) - extend a line to a selected
object.
Rectangle (Rec) - creates a rectangle
Rotate (Ro) - rotates a selected object
Align (Al) - aligns selected objects
Join (J) - joins selected objects into one
object.
Polyline (PL) - used to create lines that
count as one entity
Move (Mo) - moves selected object
Commands Dimension style manager
D (Dimstyle) - for managing dimension
styles
Dimension linear (DLI) - getting dimension
(length) of horizontal and vertical lines
Dimension align (DAL) - getting dimension
(length) of diagonal lines
Dimension radius (DIMRAD) - getting
dimension (length) of radius of circles
Dimension diameter (DIMDIA) - getting
dimension (length) of diameter of circles
Hatch (H) - places patterns in an enclosed
object and patterns are used to indicate the
type of material.
Defpoints - a layer created for imaginary
objects or guidelines and any object drawn
in this layer will not be shown in printed
copies
Tan, Tan, Radius (TTR) - creates a circle
with a specified radius that is tangent to two
existing objects.
VPORTS - Viewports
SCALE
1:100, Left side (1) size in the drawing sheet
while right side (100) size in actual.