Chapter 2

AutoCAD Fundamentals

Part II

Learning Objectives

You learned a great deal in the first chapter, in fact the majority of what you need to know to get started on a design. This chapter serves as a “clean up” and concludes the basic introduction to AutoCAD, as there are just a few more topics to get to. Here, we discuss the following:

ent Using grips

ent Setting units

ent Using Snap and Grid

 Understanding the Cartesian coordinate system

 Geometric data ...

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