Drawing in Modelspace / Using OTRACK to Build a Side View with the EXTENSION Snap
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We're now going to use Object Snap Tracking to place a side view to the right of our front view. We're just going to zoom out slightly, so let's just roll back on the wheel mouse a notch and then using the wheel again on the mouse, let's just pan across like so. So we're going to place our front view there to the left because we're going to place our side view here to the right of our front view. Now, before we do any drafting, we need to make sure that our Object Snaps and our Object Snap Tracking are correctly set. We do this using the Status Bar at the bottom of the screen. We're going to go down to the O Snap Button here on the Status Bar, right click. We need to make sure that our Extension Snap is on. All our other snaps are fine, but we just need to check that our Extension Snap is on. It's highlighted in blue there so yes, it is already switched on. So I press Escape. I then right click over the OTRACK Button on the Status Bar and go to Settings. I need to make sure that Object Snap is on and I need to make sure that Object Snap Tracking is on. So both boxes need to be checked. Click on Ok when they are. We're now ready to start drafting our rectangle for our side view. Again, we go to the Home Tab, to our Draw Panel and we click on the Rectangle Command here. Come into the Drawing Area. Now this is where Object Snap Tracking may seem a little alien to you. What we're going to do is we're going to hover over this bottom right Endpoint snap here. The Endpoint snap will appear. Do not click on the Endpoint snap. I know until now you've been used to clicking on both objects and Object Snaps. Just hover over it and acquire the Object Snap Tracking Point. So I repeat: do not click on the Endpoint snap. Once you've acquired it, you'll see a little cross appear in the center of the Endpoint snap there. If you now drag to the right, you'll see your Extension Snap kick in on the dynamic input there and you'll see the little cross there, this little orange cross. That's your Acquired Object Snap Tracking Point. You can have seven of those at any given time; when you select an eighth, the first point that you selected drops off of the selection. So you can only have seven concurrent Object Snap Tracking Points. Now, what that Extension Snap there is telling me is that at the moment, my crosshair is 27.72 millimeters at an angle of zero degrees away from the Object Snap Tracking Point. I need it to be 40 units. So I use a direct distance entry purely by typing in the number. There's my 40 units there. If I now press Enter, what'll happen is because I've used Object Snap Tracking in the Extension Snap, look. My start point of my rectangle is now exactly 40 units to the right of the point I acquired. I now need to specify the other corner point of my rectangle and that's going to be 100 units to the right, which is positive 100, and 100 units upward, which again is positive 100. So I type 100 in the X Coordinate Box and press the Comma Key. I then type 100 in the Y Coordinate Box and press Enter. There's my rectangle. And now we're going to continue using Object Snap Tracking. We're going to place some hidden detail lines to indicate the holes where these bolts actually go through our bracket. And we're also going to put some center lines in there as well. We're also going to show the shaft, the large circle on the front view, in hidden detail as well. So let's place our center lines first. We need to go onto our Center Layer. So up to the Layer Pull-down. There's our Center Layer there. We're now on our Center Layer and going to start drafting our center lines. Now, the trick here is again to hover over these points. So for the center lines representing the holes for the top two nuts and bolts there, we need to use the Center Snap and Endpoint Snap as our two Object Snap Tracking points first of all. I'm going to use the Line Command, which is on the Home Tab here. Click on the Line Command. I hover over the Center Snap there, acquire it, I then hover over the Endpoint Snap here and acquire it. As I drag downwards now, can you see? I get an intersection between the end point and the center. I left click. I can now continue dragging here along this way. I will then get another intersection. I left click. There's my center line. Enter to finish. What I'm now going to do is I'm now going to place another center line utilizing the Center Snap of the shaft. So I go to the Line Command again. I hover over the center of the shaft now. I don't click on it, remember. I then hover over the same Endpoint Snap here, the top left corner, and as I drag downwards now, you'll see there's the intersection there. I could also use the Mid-Point Snap without using Object Snap Tracking if I wanted to. I left click and as I drag across, I then get another mid-point here so I can utilize the mid-points now very easily as well. And again, Enter to finish. I now place my last center line. So again, Line Command over on the Draw Panel there. I hover over the center here. Now, what I can do here is I can hover over this corner here instead if I want to and as I drag upwards, there's my intersection of the two Object Snap Tracking Points. I left click and again I drag over here to that intersection there and I left click again and Enter to finish. There's my center lines without a single construction line. Now what I need to do is I need to utilize my Quadrant Snap to place some lines now in hidden detail. So I go to the Hidden Layer here and I'm only going to place the shaft hidden detail here. I'll place the whole hidden detail later on. So I need to go to my Line Command again but I need to make sure my Quadrant Snap is on first. So down to O Snap, right click, Quadrant isn't on so what I can do on the shortcut menu is click on it. That switches my Quadrant Snap on. I'm going to draw some lines now in the top quadrant and the bottom quadrant of the shaft itself, which is the large circle here. So I need the Line Command again. I hover over the top quadrant. Again, I don't click on it. I then hover over this point here, this Endpoint here and again I don't click on it. As I drag downwards, there's my intersection. I left click; drag my line across to the intersection on the other side. There's my intersection there. I left click. I Enter to finish. There's the first hidden detail showing the shaft on the side view. Last line on the drawing now. Again, bottom quadrant this time. Hover over it. Do not click on it. So that's the bottom quadrant of the circle, not the bottom quadrant of the arc. I'm going to hover over this Endpoint Snap here and then I'm going to drag upwards. There's my intersection. Left click for the first point of my line and then drag over to this intersection here. Left click and Enter to finish. So there's my side view showing center lines, hidden detail; all using Object Snap Tracking from the front view already created.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Autodesk AutoCAD 2009: Mastering Basic 2D Concepts |
| Author: | Shaun Bryant |
| SKU: | 33897 |
| ISBN: | 1-934743-81-X |
| Release Date: | 2008-08-13 |
| Duration: | 6.5 hrs / 93 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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