cad lecture 1

AutoCAD INTERFACE Properties Toolbar Styles Toolbar

Title Bar
Pull-down Menu Bar
Standard Tool Bar
Layer Toolbar

Draw Tool Bar

Modify Tool Bar

Model Space

Command Icon

Crosshair

User Coordinate Scroll Bars
System (UCS) Layout Tab Command Prompt
Window

Status Bar

Figure 1. AutoCAD Interface

USING THE MOUSE IN AutoCAD Right Button:
Enter or Short Cut Menu
To repeat the previous command
To end repeating prompts Scroll Button:
To zoom in, zoom out and zoom panning

Left Button: Pick or point button To specify a point position or location

Figure 2. Computer Mouse

KEYBOARD CONTROL KEYS

Ctrl + A - to turn ON/OFF Group Selection
Ctrl + B - to turn ON/OFF Snap
Ctrl + C - to copy object to Windows Clip Board
Ctrl + D - to turn ON/OFF Coordinates
Ctrl + E - to change Isometric Planes
Ctrl + F - to turn ON/OFF Osnap
Ctrl + G - to turn ON/OFF Grids
Ctrl + J - to execute last command
Ctrl + K - to invoke the Hyperlink command
Ctrl + L - to turn ON/OFF Ortho mode
Ctrl + M - to display DBConnect Manager Dialog Box
Ctrl + N - to create a new Drawing File
Ctrl + O - to open an existing Drawing File
Ctrl + P - to display the Plot Dialog Box
Ctrl + Q - to save the content of the Text Window to a Log