AutoCAD® 2015 for Interior Design and Space Planning

Chapter 2. Quick-Start Tutorials: Basic Settings and Commands

Chapter Objectives

• Begin a new AutoCAD drawing and make settings for units, limits, grid, and snap.

• Make layers and assign color, linetype, and lineweight to each layer.

• Use function keys to control grid and snap.

• Use the commands Save and Save As to save work.

• Use grips to modify objects.

• Use ORTHO mode to control drawing horizontal and vertical lines.

• Use annotation scale to control how text and other annotative objects appear on drawings and plots.

• Print/plot drawings from a Model tab.

• Correctly use the following commands and settings:

ARC

CIRCLE

DONUT

DYN

ELLIPSE

ERASE

GRIDDISPLAY

Highlight

LINE

LTSCALE

MOVE

PAN

REDO

REDRAW

REGEN

SCALE

Single Line Text

UNDO