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Cad m2 Drawing Shapes
Cad m2 Drawing Shapes
We will jump a few steps and start creating today. Let’s see how practical and efficient we can be. The objective of this is to make you sense what it feels like designing with AutoCAD.
We need to start with a short description of the environment, potentially discovering new words that are specially used by AutoCAD drafters. It will also be important to know the right
settings and the changes you need to do before you start using AutoCAD.
2 – Click on Open
You are now in the main window. Feel free to close the window on the left side (if you are working on the same version as I do), it won’t be useful for now.
If you did close the left windows, the following image is what you should be left with.
We are now set.
We will define a line here like a straight rope that needs two points to hang itself on.
How will this definition help us here? It will help us remember that AutoCAD needs information about the location of the two points to be able to draw a line, provided the fact that the
line command is activated.
A line
To draw a line in AutoCAD:
2 – Click anywhere in the drawing area to tell AutoCAD where you want the first point to be
3 – Repeat the previous step after moving the cursor away from the first point.
If we were to draw this (we do not care about dimensions and line inclinations for now), we will
1. Activate the Line command
2. Click to indicate point 1
3. Click to indicate point 2
4. Click to indicate point 3
5. Click on point 1 again
6. Press the ESC key
You must still have many questions about drawing a line, No worries! More will be covered in the upcoming tutorials.