As a beginner AutoCAD Drafter, you will need to know how to use these to start properly working with AutoCAD. There are few important settings that are turned off by default, you need to be aware of them, and turn them ON to take on AutoCAD to its full abilities. Here, we are working on …
We have seen a couple of ways you can go to draw a straight line in AutoCAD here. Before diving into today’s tutorial, I would like to mention something I totally forgot to mention in previous sessions. Many people fall into this trap. You know how you are drawing a straight line in Microsoft Paint, …
Here are 2 new Basic AutoCAD commands well to master. POLYGON is not a command that is being used often but it can come in handy at times, this command can help draw a star in AutoCAD. There is a technique that requires you to make use of this command to draw a star in …
In this AutoCAD exercise, we will make good use of the Fillet command. If you have not visited the post where we used Fillet for the first time, feel free to start from there. If you are a beginner, this exercise will help you exercise a little. All you need to know if how to …
Chamfer and Fillet are two of the most used commands in the Modify ribbon. Fillet helps convert sharp edges to round edges, Even though this command can be bypassed using Circles and Trim, its use will still be appreciated seeing how easy getting to the final result get while using it. The Chamfer command is …
3DALIGN (Command)Aligns objects with other objects in 2D and 3D. 3DARRAY (Command)Maintains legacy behavior for creating nonassociative, 3D rectangular or polar arrays. 3DCLIP (Command)Opens the Adjust Clipping Planes window, where you can specify what portions of a 3D model to display. 3DCORBIT (Command)Rotates the view in 3D space with continuous motion. 3DDISTANCE (Command)Starts the interactive …
STL (STereoLithography) is a file format native to the stereolithography CAD software created by 3D Systems. Converting your DWG file to STL will let you hand the resulting file to any 3D printing service with the confidence of them being able to read and print whatever information you happen to have in your file. Although …
The following should have nothing new to you if you have completed the previous challenges. This is the perfect challenge to push your knowledge forward. Here, you will discover the FILLET command. All Fillet in the following exercise are five units. (Learn more about the FILLET command in AutoCAD) Learning AutoCAD Basics You do not …
Here are some basic AutoCAD commands you should be able to make use of if you are learning how to use AutoCAD. We’ve looked into each of these commands in detail here, and now we would like to have a global view of all that is needed so far. Basic AutoCAD commands List part 1
Few more AutoCAD exercises Exercise 1 This Exercise was first introduced in this AutoCAD quiz. Feel free to check it to find out what the height of the image is. The value of A will unveil itself after drawing the part you are given information about. Exercise 2 You can find this same Exercise in …
The EXPLODE command in AutoCAD comes in handy when you wish to disassemble a component into its sub-components. This gives you the ability to edit each of the sub-components separately. One of the first examples that come to mind is what happens when you use the RECTANG method to create a rectangle, and after you …
Here come MIRROR and ROTATE command, two important commands in AutoCAD. These commands will be a lot useful to you and will constantly help you get stuff done the right way. MIRROR This command will help create a mirrored copy of a selected object. On the example below I have used the vertical line to …
While we are much more focusing on AutoCAD basics here, it is necessary to learn how you can convert LINE to Polyline and vice versa. This might not make sense to you now but will surely come in handy when you will come to a point where you need to convert a line to a …
There are diverse AutoCAD commands that will help you draw what we will call a segment if we were using the vocabulary used in Mathematics. In CAD, things have been redefined, mostly categorized by the way they look and the step you go through while creating them. Thus, it will not be something new if …
AutoCAD ANNOTATION is what makes a project have all its meaning and its raison d’être to the eyes of someone looking at it when the creator of the project is not around. Annotations can also help CAD drafters keep track of all the important information a plain image can not express in a project. In AutoCAD, …