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Part 1The Basicsu Chapter 1: Exploring the AutoCAD Interfaceu Chapter 2: Creating Your First Drawingu Chapter 3: Setting Up and Using AutoCA

10 | CHAPTER 1 Exploring thE AutoCAD intErfACETools vs. the KeyboardThroughout this book, you’ll be told to select tools from the Tool Sets palette

tAking A guiDED tour | 11 2. Release the mouse button. Trackpad users should use a one-finger tap. The window selec-tion disappears. 3. Try the cl

12 | CHAPTER 1 Exploring thE AutoCAD intErfACEThe Dynamic Input display allows you to enter dimensional data of objects as you draw them. Besides ec

gEtting fAmiliAr with AutoCAD | 13cases, components of the current message that don’t fit in a single line. Right now, the bottom line displays the me

14 | CHAPTER 1 Exploring thE AutoCAD intErfACE 3. In the Select File dialog box, navigate to the Chapter 01 folder of the sample files you downloa

gEtting fAmiliAr with AutoCAD | 15Also note that the drawing area’s title bar displays the name of the drawing. This offers easy identification of the

16 | CHAPTER 1 Exploring thE AutoCAD intErfACEYou’ve just seen how you can get into the Model Space view from a layout view and then switch from a 3

gEtting fAmiliAr with AutoCAD | 17 5. Click the SW Isometric option from the Viewport controls in the upper left of the draw-ing area, then select

18 | CHAPTER 1 Exploring thE AutoCAD intErfACEUsing Zoom and PanOne of the most frequently used commands is Zoom, which gives you a closer look at p

gEtting fAmiliAr with AutoCAD | 19 3. The Dynamic Input display now shows Specify opposite corner:. Position the other corner of the zoom window so

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20 | CHAPTER 1 Exploring thE AutoCAD intErfACEIn these exercises, you used the Zoom tool on the status bar as well as the Zoom option in the right-c

gEtting fAmiliAr with AutoCAD | 21Saving a File as You WorkIt’s a good idea to save your file periodically as you work on it. You can save it under it

22 | CHAPTER 1 Exploring thE AutoCAD intErfACEIn this exercise, first you issued the Erase command, and then you selected an object by using a pickbo

gEtting fAmiliAr with AutoCAD | 23AutoCAD is asking you to select the first corner for the rectangle. In the Command Line palette you see some additio

24 | CHAPTER 1 Exploring thE AutoCAD intErfACE 4. Let’s try copying objects between these two files. Click in the window with the clip draw-ing to

gEtting fAmiliAr with AutoCAD | 25This concludes your introduction to the AutoCAD application. In the next chapter, you’ll try your hand at drawing a

26 | CHAPTER 1 Exploring thE AutoCAD intErfACEThe Bottom LineUse the AutoCAD application. AutoCAD is a typical Windows graphics program that ma

Chapter 1Exploring the AutoCAD InterfaceBefore you can start to use AutoCAD for Mac, you’ll need to become familiar with the basics. If you’re comple

4 | CHAPTER 1 Exploring thE AutoCAD intErfACELaunching AutoCADIf you have already installed AutoCAD (see Appendix B on the book's website) and

tAking A guiDED tour | 5Th e Me n u Ba rLike a typical Mac application, AutoCAD displays a menu bar where you can select a command to perform a tas

6 | CHAPTER 1 Exploring thE AutoCAD intErfACETh e To o L se T s Pa L e T T eThe Tool Sets palette (Figure 1.4) contains tools you’ll use to creat

tAking A guiDED tour | 7Some of the tools in the Tool Sets palette contain more than one option. For example, if you click and hold the Circle tool (

8 | CHAPTER 1 Exploring thE AutoCAD intErfACE Th e Dr a w i n g ar e aThe drawing area occupies the center of the screen. Figure 1.7 shows it with

tAking A guiDED tour | 9Within the drawing area, you see three items. The UCS icon appears in the lower-left corner. You’ll learn more about the UCS