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Autodesk AutoCAD 2009: Certified Associate Tutorials

Basic Drawing Skills / Creating Basic Objects pt. 2

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We're now going to use the Rectangle Command to create a side view of our mechanical brackets. Now the Rectangle Command itself is over on the Draw Panel and it's on the Home Tab and there's the Rectangle Command there. Now as I come into the drawing area you can see it's asking me for the first corner point of my rectangle. Now we're going to utilize Object Snap Tracking and also our Extension Snap, so let's have a look at. I'm going to right click over O-Snap here and go to Settings and make sure that my Extension Snap is on in the dialog box and then click on OK. O-Track is already on you can see it highlighted down there on the status bar, next to O-Snap and DUCS, Dynamic UCS. So now I'm just going to hover over this point here, I'm not going to click on it. Notice the End Point Snap is highlighted by don't click on it and then drag to the right with your mouse. You'll see the Extension Snap kick in; all I need to do now is specify distance from the End Point Snap where I want the Extension Snap to go. So I type in 40 as in 40 units and press Enter, my rectangle now starts 40 units along from that End Point Snap because I've utilized the Object Snap Tracking and the Extension Snap. So now I need to specify my other corner point and I'm going to specify that using the Dimensions Option, you can see that down here on the Command Line, its also on the right hand Shortcut Menu, probably the quickest way is to Type D and press Enter, that will then prompt you for the Dimension on your rectangles. Now the length for the rectangle is going to horizontally along the X axis which is going to 25 and press Enter. The width of the rectangle is vertical along the Y axis and that's going to be 100 and again press Enter. There's my rectangle. Now you'd think that by press Enter that last time for the width that was that, its not. Because you've only specified one origin point, the first corner and the Dimensions if you don't move the mouse in a circular motion you'll see that you've got 4 positioning places for the rectangle and you have to choose which one. So we're going to choose that one there like that. So when you get that view like that, not that one, but that one left click and you've now placed your rectangle as your side view. Now what we're also going to do now is we're going to place a circle in preparation for showing our nuts and bolts on our brackets. So we're now going to go to the Circle Command over here on the Draw Panel again, click on the Down Arrow and you want center Radius. It now prompts us for a center point for the circle, we're going to enter the Coordinates for that which are going to be 112.5 and then either hit the Tab Key or the Comma Key and then 65 for the Y value and press Enter. You'll notice your circle now is on the bottom left corner of the bracket there, the radius which you type in the Distance Box is 7.5 and then press Enter. You've now placed your circle on your bracket.

Tutorial Information

Course: Autodesk AutoCAD 2009: Certified Associate
Author: Shaun Bryant
SKU: 33919
ISBN: 1-935320-08-4
Release Date: 2008-10-31
Duration: 5.5 hrs / 76 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: Available on CD and Online University
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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