ENGR-22 Lec-02 Sp07 ACAD Intro

Engineering 22
Introduction to
AutoCAD ©
Bruce Mayer, PE
Licensed Electrical & Mechanical Engineer
BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu
Engineering 22 – Engineering Design Graphics Bruce Mayer, PE

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What are the “C”, “A”, and “D”?
 CAD Stands for One of
• Computer Aided Design
– The More Typical Definition
• Computer Aided Drafting
 Sometimes See CADD or CAE
• Computer Aided Drafting & Design
– Covers Both Bases
• Computer Aided Engineering
– Typically CADD + Numerical-Analysis
Elements of a CAD System
 Computer; e.g., DeskTop PC
 Input Devices; e.g., mouse, KeyBd
 OutPut Devices; e.g., Plotter, Printer
 Operating Software; e.g. WindowsXP,
Mac OSX, Unix, Linux
 CAD/CAE Application Software
• e.g., AutoCAD, TurboCAD, ProE,
SolidWorks, many others

CAD Software
 Common Basic Elements
• Commands to generate geometry
– Makes Mathematically Accurate Lines, Curves,
Surfaces, Volumes, etc.
• Functions for controlling views
• Modifiers for changing drawing geometry
• Annotation commands for adding text,
dimensions, and notes
 The use of CAD has Revolutionized
Engineering Graphics
Rm 1618 CAD Lab
 Room 1618 Contains the Computers
and AutoCAD2006 Software
 The CADLab Operates in OPEN
Fashion
• ENGR22 Students can Use it AnyTime
it is Open
• ENGR22 Students Do NOT have Priority
over other Users
– except During ENGR22 Lab when ENGR22
Has Top Priority
Rm 1618 CAD Lab cont
 The “OnDuty” CADLab Supervisor Can
Assist with OPERATION of the Lab,
Computers or AutoCAD
• e.g., He/She can show you how toTurn on
AutoCAD, print, etc.
• He/She May NOT be able to help with
questions related to Course CONTENT
 BMayer on OnDuty per Syllabus
• CAN Assist with Course Content
Starting AutoCAD
 Turn on one of the  Should Bring Up the
rm1618 Computers AutoCAD WorkSpace
 DoubleClick the
AutoCAD Icon

AutoCAD WorkSpace
Layer TB Standard TB Object

Properties TB
Modify TB
PullDown Menus
Drawing TB Cursor Drawing

Area
Command Line
CoOrd Display Status Line

AutoCAD ToolBars: Move/Size
 ACAD ToolBars Can

Moved and Sized using
the Same Techniques as
with other MSWindows
Applications

ReSize CommandLine Box
Resize Using
Double-Bar Cursor
Recommend
Minimum 2-Lines
High

ToolBars Described
 AutoCAD ToolBars Behave in the Same
Manner as other Windows-Apps ToolBars
Each Icon is Allowing the Cursor to

called a “Tool” “Linger over a Tool
Brings up a Descriptive
“ToolTip”
Start a NEW Drawing
 Start a New Drawing
by One of
• PullDown Menus:
File → New...
• Type “new” in the

Command Line
• Using the “QNew”

(QuickNew) Tool
Select Template Dialog-Box
• Appears After the
New File
Command(s)
• A Template is a
Standard format
• For Now Suggest
Using the
acad.dwt
Template
• Click Open to Start
the New Drawing

Name & Save Drawing
 Opening a NEW  Naming AutoCAD Files
Drawing Results in a • NOT Case Sensitive
Default Name of • Any Combination of
DrawingN.dwg Letters and Numbers
– Also Allowed = $, -, _
• Not Allowed = \, /, %, *
 Use File → Save or

The Save-Tool to
Give the Dwg a new
Name
AutoCAD Drawing Units
 “ACAD” Has Five
Unit-Systems
• Each has Five
Formatting
Parameters
 To Adjust the Unit
System Use the
PullDown Menu
• Format → Units...

Format Units
 The Drawing Units  In ENGR22 We will
Dialog Box Typically Use for
Length Units
• Type → Decimal
• Insertion Scale →
one of
– Inches (in or “)
– Millimeters (mm)
• Precision
– in → 0.00 or 0.000
– mm → 0 or 0.00

Format Units cont
 In ENGR22 We will
Typically Use for Angle
Units
• Type → Decimal Degree
• Precision → 0 or 0.0
• CounterClockwise

Standard Paper Sheet Sizes
 USA Standards (in)  ISO 216 Paper (mm)
• A = 8.5x11 (1.29 AR) • A4 = 210x297 (1.41 AR)
• B = 11x17 (1.55 AR) • A3 = 297x420 (1.41 AR)
• C = 17x22 (1.29 AR) • A2 = 420x594 (1.41 AR)
• D = 22x34 (1.55 AR) • A1 = 594x841 (1.41 AR)
• E = 34x44 (1.29 AR) • A0 = 841x1189 (1.41 AR)
 Notes  Notes
• Nice, Round No.s • UNround Numbers
• Inconsistent Aspect • Constant Aspect Ratio =
Ratios (ARs) 2

 Example: Set
Drawing Limits Drawing Limits
1. Open a New
 In ENGR22 Drawing using
HardCopy Output acad.dwt
will done on “A-size” 2. Use the PullDown
(8.5” x 11”) Paper Menu: Format →
 ACAD Drawing Drawing Limits...
Limits set the
Boundaries
• The “Limits” Usually
Set to Match the
Paper Size

Drawing Limits cont
– Brings up notation in
Command Line
4. Enter 11, 8.5 and hit

Enter to set the Upper
3. Accept the Lower- Right Limit
Left at <0.0000,
0.000> by hitting
Enter
– Brings the Next
Query into the
Command Line

Grid & Snap
 Grid is just a visual  They can be
aid for your drawing changed on-the-fly
 Snap allows you to  Function keys set
specify precise GRID and SNAP
coordinates when  “modes”: on and off
using the mouse
 F7 - Sets GRID
 They are modified mode on/off
with the GRID and
SNAP commands  F9 - Sets SNAP
mode on/off
 Neither affect
anything already
drawn
Grid & Snap
 acadiso.dwt
• Limits (420,297)
 Grid set to 10 mm
 Snap set to 20mm

Example → 1st Drawing
1. Fire up AutoCAD
2. Make a new
Drawing using
acad.dwt
3. Save the File as
YourName-01.dwg
• e.g.; BMayer-
Click
01.dwg
4. Make a NEW
LAYER Called
“Object”
1st Drawing cont
Type “Object”
• Pick the GREEN Box

and then click OK
Click
“Color →
white”

1st Drawing cont
• Set the “Object” 5. Hit the Save tool
Layer to Current
6. Use the drawing
Tools to make
some Shapes &
Double click the
“Status” box
Lines that Fill a
significant Portion
of the screen
• Set the “Object” Layer
to Current using
Status box
• Click OK
1st Drawing cont
Save Again
Drawing
ToolBar

1st Drawing cont
7. Use the Pull Down Menu:
Draw → Text → Multiline
Test...
8. Drag the mouse to
• form an “MTEXT” Box
• Activates the
“Text Formatting” Box
9. In the Format Box Change
the Text Size to 15-25
• Or Whatever fits your dwg
1st Drawing cont
Change to 25
MTEXT
Box

1st Drawing cont
10. Click in Inside the MTEXT
Box and Type Your HW-ID
• Fname Lname
• Date
• Class ID = ENGR22
• HW ID = HW-nn
11. Click OutSide the MTEXT

Box to DeActivate
12. Hit Save, yet again

1st Drawing cont
13. In the Command Line type zoom,
then Hit Enter
14. At the Query Prompt the letter “e”
(for “extents”) Then Hit Enter
 Your Drawing will Zoom in to Fill the Screen

1st Drawing cont
zoom → extents

1st Drawing cont
15. Use the PullDown
Menu:
File → Plot
• Activates the Plot
Dialog Box

1st Drawing cont
 ASK the CAD-Lab
Supervisor about
the PROPER
Settings to Obtain
an A-Size (8.5x11)
PrintOut
16. In the Print Dialog
Box click OK
17. Pick up your Copy
and you’re done

All Done for Today
See Me in
rm 1618 Lab
For Plotting
Tutorial

Engineering 22
Appendix
f  x  2 x3  7 x 2  9 x  6
Bruce Mayer, PE
Licensed Electrical & Mechanical Engineer
BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu

ISO 216 Paper Size System
In the ISO paper size system, the height-to-width ratio of all pages is the square root of
two (1.4142 : 1). This aspect ratio is especially convenient for a paper size. If you put two
such pages next to each other, or equivalently cut one parallel to its shorter side into two
equal pieces, then the resulting page will have again the same width/height ratio.
The ISO paper sizes are based on the metric system. The square-root-of-two ratio does
not permit both the height and width of the pages to be nicely rounded metric lengths.
Therefore, the area of the pages has been defined to have round metric values.
• The height divided by the width of all formats is the square root of two (1.4142).
• Format A0 has an area of one square meter.

Comments Viewing AR’s
 Humans have Much Greater Lateral
Peripheral Vision than Vertical
• Suggests that “Wide Screens” Are Better
 Some Viewing Aspect Ratios
• 1.25:1 = 8x10 photo
• 1.33:1 = NTSC TV Screen
• 1.78:1 = HDTV (Movie Compatible)
• 1.85:1 = “Academy Flat” Movie
• 2.35:1 = “Panavision” Movie

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Engineering 22 – Engineering Design Graphics Bruce Mayer, PE

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Engineering 22 – Engineering Design Graphics Bruce Mayer, PE

Layer TB Standard TB Object

Drawing TB Cursor Drawing

CoOrd Display Status Line

Engineering 22 – Engineering Design Graphics Bruce Mayer, PE

 ACAD ToolBars Can

Engineering 22 – Engineering Design Graphics Bruce Mayer, PE

Engineering 22 – Engineering Design Graphics Bruce Mayer, PE

Each Icon is Allowing the Cursor to

• Type “new” in the

• Using the “QNew”

Engineering 22 – Engineering Design Graphics Bruce Mayer, PE

 Use File → Save or

Engineering 22 – Engineering Design Graphics Bruce Mayer, PE

Engineering 22 – Engineering Design Graphics Bruce Mayer, PE

Engineering 22 – Engineering Design Graphics Bruce Mayer, PE

Engineering 22 – Engineering Design Graphics Bruce Mayer, PE

Engineering 22 – Engineering Design Graphics Bruce Mayer, PE

4. Enter 11, 8.5 and hit

Engineering 22 – Engineering Design Graphics Bruce Mayer, PE

Engineering 22 – Engineering Design Graphics Bruce Mayer, PE

• Pick the GREEN Box

Engineering 22 – Engineering Design Graphics Bruce Mayer, PE

Engineering 22 – Engineering Design Graphics Bruce Mayer, PE

Engineering 22 – Engineering Design Graphics Bruce Mayer, PE

11. Click OutSide the MTEXT

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 Your Drawing will Zoom in to Fill the Screen

Engineering 22 – Engineering Design Graphics Bruce Mayer, PE

Engineering 22 – Engineering Design Graphics Bruce Mayer, PE

Engineering 22 – Engineering Design Graphics Bruce Mayer, PE

Engineering 22 – Engineering Design Graphics Bruce Mayer, PE

Engineering 22 – Engineering Design Graphics Bruce Mayer, PE

Engineering 22 – Engineering Design Graphics Bruce Mayer, PE

Engineering 22 – Engineering Design Graphics Bruce Mayer, PE

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