DISPLAYING OBJECT

When you use the software, you draw all object at full scale. Sometimes you need to
view the whole drawings, sometimes just smaller details. To assist you in viewing
different areas of the drawing, there are a number of zoom and path tools. You can
easily magnify small areas of your drawing to provide a closer view or shift the view
to a different or larger part of the drawing. You can save views by name and restore
them later.
ZOOM
Type ZOOM at the command prompt.
Command: ZOOM or Z

One of the first thing you want to learn is how to manipulate your views. The ZOOM
command is a common tool. Increases or decrease the apparent size of objects in
the current viewport.
ZOOM Options:

All Places the entire drawing (all visible layers) on display at once.
Center Displays a view defined by a center point and a magnification value or
height.
Dynamic Permits you to pan a box representing the viewing screen around the
entire generated portion of the drawing and enlarge or shrink it.
Extents Displays current drawing content as large as possible.
Previous Restores previous view.
Scale Changes the magnification of a view using a scale factor.
Window Designates rectangular area to be drawn as large as possible.
Object Displays one or more selected objects as large as possible and in the
center of the view.
Real Time Zooms interactively to change the magnification view.
PAN
Shifts the location of a view.
Type PAN at the command prompt.
Command: PAN or P
Panning can also be done by using the window scroll bars.

USING LAYERS
In AutoCAD drawing, lines and other entities are drawn in layers. A layer can have
its own color, linetype, or lineweight assigned to it.
When you begin AutoCAD drawing from scratch, it contains only one layer, layer 0.
If more layers are needed, they must be created.
Steps in Creating New Layers
1. Click on the Layer Properties
icon located on the Home Tab on
the Ribbon.
2. When the Layer Properties
Manager opens, Click the
New Layer (Alt+N) Button.
3. Click on the new layer and
rename it.

Setting Layer Color

1. Click the Layer Properties Manager icon located on the Home Tab on the
Ribbon and select the layer you want to change the color.

2. Click on the color assigned on the

Color Column in the dialog box and
when the Select Color dialog box
opens, select the desired tile from
Color Palette and click OK.
The Select Color dialog box closes.
In the Layer
Properties Manager palette, the
color column now has the new color
either the name or the number of the
color you selected.

Setting Layer Lineweight

1. Click on the Layer Properties Manager icon located on the Home Tab on
the Ribbon.
2. When the Layer Properties Manager palette opens, select the layer to
which you want to assign a new lineweight setting in the Lineweight
Column.

3. When the lineweight dialog box opens, scroll through and select the desired
line thickness in which you want the layer to be printed and click OK.
Setting the Current Layer

In AutoCAD drawing, you can draw

only on the current, select the
downward arrow in the Layer window
located on the Layer panel of the
Home Tab on the Ribbon and leftclick on the layer you want to make
current from the list of the layers
shown.
Controlling Layer Visibility
Visibility of a drawing layers can be
controlled in two ways: either turning the
layers off, lock or freeze them. This is
particularly helpful if you need an
unobstructed views of an area or if you are
working in detail on a particular layer or
sets of layer.

Freeze
viewports

Turn a layer On or
Off

Lock or Unlock a
layer

Matching Object Properties

Object Properties of a selected object can be
matched to other objects in the drawing. Select
the source object first then select the
destination object(s).
The Matching Properties command will
apply the Color, Layer, Linetype, Line Scale,
Lineweight, Thickness (for 3D), and Dimension, Text and Hatch styles.
The Match Properties command is a great tool for controlling the properties of
your objects. You can use it on one or more objects. I keeps you from having to
switch active layers or manually change the objects once they are drawn.
1. To use the Match Properties, type MA or Matchprop on the Command
Line.

2. Select the Source Object or the object

you want the properties to be copied.
3. Select the Destination Object(s) or the
object you wish to apply the copied
properties.
4. Press Enter or the Spacebar to end the
command.

Using the Properties Palette

Properties Palette can be opened in the Palettes panel of the View Tab or by
typing PR in the Command Line.
Another way is to select the objects whose properties you want to view or modify,
right-click in the drawing area, and click Properties.
A Properties Palette displays the properties of the
selected object or set of objects.

When more than one object is selected, only

those properties common to all selected
object are displayed.
When no objects are selected, only the
current settings of general properties are
displayed.

You can specify a new value to modify any property that

can be changed. Click the value and use one of the
following methods:

Using Linetypes

Enter a new value.

Click the down arrow at the right and select a
value from the list.

Linetypes are used to distinguish properties on the drawing for one another. You can
use them to represent hidden geometry in a specific view, to show centerlines for
dimensioning, or perhaps just to add clarity to the drawing.
Using Inquiry Command
These commands are used to display information about
AutoCAD entities, such as distance between two points. The
coordinate of a single point, the area of a closed figure like
rectangle or circle, or the volume of a 3D objects.

USING LAYOUTS
Plotting is a vital step in the process of communicating your design and the use of
layouts is an important part of preparing the plotting.

Create a New Layout

New
Layout

You can add New Layouts by Clicking on the plus sign at

the tab.

Using Layout Viewports

Viewports are a key component in the ability to plot model space geometry from a
layout. Each viewport acts as a display portal from the paper layout to the geometry
in the model space. By creating multiple viewports in a single layout, you can
display different aspects of the model geometry at different scales on the same
page.
You can create a single layout viewport that fits the entire layout or create multiple
layout viewports in the layout. Once you create the viewports, you can change their
size, their properties, and also scale and move them as needed.
With MVIEW, you have several option for creating one or more layout viewports.
You can also use COPY create multiple layout viewports.

Creating Default Layout Viewports

Using the Layout Tab

1. Click Layout Tab Layout Panel New.

2. In the Layout Viewports dialog box, New Viewports Tab, under Standard
Viewport, select Single.
3. Click to specify one corner of the new Layout Viewport.
4. Click to specify the opposite corner.
5. A New Layout Viewport object is available and displays to a default view. To
adjust the view, double-click within the Layout Viewport to access model
space.

ANNOTATING THE DRAWING

Annotations are objects that we create to add information for our object. We add
text to give notes or describe what object it is. We add dimensions to show the
object size. Hatches to show cut objects or materials and so on.
Annotation Tab

Creating Multiline Text

Multiline text now is very advanced. It is actually works close to rich text editor like
Microsoft Word. You can easily edit the text to make it italic, bold, or underlined. You
can change the justification. You can even use bullet and numbering, and use multi
column format. It also features autocorrect spelling, subscript and superscript.

For longer notes and labels with

internal formatting, use multiline text.
To Create Multiline Text
1. Click Home Tab Annotation Panel
Multiline Text.
2. Specify opposite corners of a bounding box to define the width of the
multiline text object.
If the ribbon is active, the MTEXT ribbon contextual tab displays. If the ribbon is not
active, the In-Place Text Editor is displayed.
3. To indent the first line of each paragraph, drag the first-line indent slider on
the ruler. To indent the other lines of each paragraph, drag the paragraph
slider.
4. To set tabs, click the ruler where you want a tab stop.
5. If you want to use a Text Style other than the default, on the ribbon, click
Annotate Tab.
Creating Single Line Text
You can use single-line text to create one or
lines of text, where each text line is an
independent object that you can relocate,
reformat, or otherwise modify.

more

Use single-line text to create one or more

lines of text, ending each lie when you press
Enter.
The text styles used for single-line text are
same as those used for multiline text. If you
need to apply
formatting to individual words and characters, use multiline text instead of singleline text.
You can also compress single-line text to fit between points that you specify. This
option stretches or squeezes the text to fill the designated space.
To Create Single Line Text

1. Click Home Tab Annotation Panel

Single Line Text.
2. Specify the insertion point for the first
character. If you press
ENTER, the program locate the new text
immediately below the
last text object you created.
3. Specify the height of the text. This prompt is displayed only if text height is
set to 0 in the current text style.
A rubber-band line is attached from the text insertion point to the cursor.
Click to set the height of the text to the length of the rubber-band line
4. Specify a text rotation angle.
You can enter an angle value or use your pointing device.
5. Enter the text. At the end of each line, press ENTER. Enter more text as
needed.
6. Press ENTER on a blank line to end the command.
Using Text Styles
You can access Text Styles at the Annotate Tab.

Editing Text
To specify a text style when you create a Single Line

text

1. Click Home Tab Annotation Panel

Single Line Text.
2. Enter S (Style).
3. At the Style Name prompt, enter an existing text style name.
If you want to see a list of text styles, enter? and press ENTER twice.
4. Continue creating text.
To

align
Single

Line text as you create it

1.
2.
3.
4.

Click Home Tab Annotation Panel Single Line Text.

Enter J (Justify).
Enter an alignment option.
Continue creating text.

PLOTTING OF DRAWINGS
Binding Using eTransmit
1. To use eTransmit, type ETRANSMIT on the Command Line.

2. Click on Transmittal Setups then click New.

3. Create New Transmittal Setup Name and click Continue.

4. Modify Transmittal Setup

Publish to PDF/DWF

1. Type PUBLISH on the

Command Line.
Click Publish to PDF the select
Publish Options.
Click on the Default Output
Location where you want the
files to be saved, then on the
General Options set type to
Single-sheet file and
selection Dont include on
the Layer information.
2. You can add files to be
publish by clicking the
Add Sheets or delete
files by selecting
Remove Sheets.

USING DESIGN REVIEW

COMBINE DWF FILES
To add entire DWF files to an open DWF file
1. In Design Review, create a DWF file or open an existing one to receive the
other DWF files.
2. From Windows Explorer, select one or more DWF files.
3. Drag the selection over the Thumbnails or List View palette of the
receiving DWF file.

4. In the Thumbnails of List View palette of the receiving DWF file, drop
the selection.

To drag sheets between open DWF files

1. In Design Review, create a DWF file or open an existing one to receive the
sheet or sheets to be copied.
2. Start a second instance of Design Review.
3. In the second Design Review window, open the DWF file that contains the
sheet or sheets to be copied.
4. From the Thumbnails or List View palette of the second window, select the
sheet or sheets to be copied.
5. Drag the selection from the second window over the Thumbnails or List View
palette of the receiving DWF file in the first window.

6. In

the

Thumbnails or List View palette of the receiving DWF file in the first
window, drop the selection.

REORDER SHEETS WITHIN A DWF FILE

To reorder a sheet within a DWF file
1. In the Thumbnails or List View palette, select the sheet or sheets to be
reordered.
2. Drag the selection in the palette.
As you drag the selection, use the guide line that appears in the palette to
help position the selection in the desired location. The palette scrolls
automatically as needed.
3. Drop the selection in the new location.
RENAME A SHEET ON A DWF FILE
To rename a sheet on a DWF file
1. In the Thumbnails or List View palate, right-click
sheet or double click the sheet to be renamed and
select Rename.
2. Type the new sheet name.
3. Press Enter or click away from the sheet.
DELETE SHEETS FROM A DWF FILE
To delete sheets from a DWF file
1. In the Thumbnails or List View palette, select the sheet or sheets to be
deleted.
2. Right-click on the selection and select Delete.

3. To continue deleting the selection, click OK.

the

MARKUP DWF FILES

Markup generally refers to all objects you add to a DWF file during the review
process. Markups share common traits when reviewing, commenting or redlining
DWF files during the feedback process.
Markups can be added to sheets displayed on the canvas using Markup &
Measure ribbon tab.

CONTROL MARKUP DISPLAY

You can hide all markups in a DWF file to see the underlying content. Hiding markup
on the canvas does not hide it in the Markups palette. By default, markups are
shown.
To hide markups on the canvas

Click Home Tab Uncheck Show Markups.

SECURE MARKUPS
Helps prevent accidental changes and deletions by enabling you to lock or unlock
markups.
Determine Markup Locking Station
You can determine whether a markup is unlocked lock.

On the canvas, the handles of a selected markup are either yellow (unlocked)
or gray
(locked).

In the Markup palette, to the left of each markup, a lock icon indicates
whether a markup is unlocked.
In the Markup Properties palette, for the selected mark the Lock Markup
option is unchecked (unlocked) or checked (locked).

To lock or unlock a markup

1. In the Markup palette, select the desired markup object.
2. To lock the markup,
In the Markup Properties palette, check the
Markup.
Or on the canvas, right-click the markup and select Lock.

3. To

Lock

unlock the markup,

In the Markup Properties, uncheck the Lock Markup.
Or on the canvas, right-click the mark and select Lock.

Markup Formatting Tools

Markup appearance can be changed using tools on the Formatting panel on the
Markup & Measure tab.

FORMAT MARKUPS

To set the default formatting for a markup tool

1. Verify that no markup objects are selected.
2. From the Callouts, Draw, Measure, or Stamps & Symbols panel, click the
markup object type for which you want to set a new default formatting.

3. In the Formatting panel, click a format tool to specify the type of formatting
to be changed.
4. Select a format option to set the new formatting.

CHANGE THE FONT SIZE

Design Review enables you to change the font size of a markup object from 1 pt to
72 pt. The default font size is 10 pt.
To change the font size
1. On the canvas toolbar, click Select.
2. In the Markup palette, select the desired text markup.
3. Click Markup & Measure tab Formatting panel
Font Size drop- down list.
4. Select the desired font size.
SET COLOR, TRANSPARECNY & BORDER DISPLAY
To set color
1.
2.
3.
4.

On the canvas toolbar, click Select.

In the Markup palette, select the desired markup.
Click Markup & Measure tab Formatting panel.
Depending on the type of markup selected, click Text Color
drop-down list, Line Color drop-down list

Fill Color drop-down list.

5. Select the pre-defined or custom color.
To set transparency
1. On the canvas toolbar, click Select.

, or

2. In the Markup palette, select the desired callout, closed shapes, or text box
markup or markups.
3. Click Markup & Measure tab Formatting panel
Fill Transparency drop-down list.
4. Select the desired transparency percentage.
To hide or show markup border
1. In the Markup palette, select the desired markup or markups.
2. Click Markup & Measure tab Formatting panel.
3. Select the desired border display setting.
To hide the markup border, check No Border.

To

show the markup border, uncheck No Border.