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AutoCAD 2022 for Interior Design and Space Planning
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AutoCAD 2022 for Interior Design and Space Planning

by Beverly L. Kirkpatrick, James M. Kirkpatrick, Hossein Assadipour, David Byrnes
November 2021
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
22h 19m
English
Peachpit Press
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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

    MOVE

    CIRCLE

    PAN

    DONUT

    REDO

    DYN

    REDRAW

    ELLIPSE

    REGEN

    ERASE

    SCALE

    GRIDDISPLAY

    Single Line Text

    Highlight

    UNDO

    LINE

    ZOOM ...

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ISBN: 9780136787785