Download ‘AUTOCAD 2000 – Drawing the Granny Flat Plan’ Tutorial in PDF File

November 4th, 2008

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Here is AutoCAD 2000 Tutorial / AutoCAD Drawing Tutorial / Download AutoCAD 2000 Tutorial / Download AutoCAD Drawing / Download PDF File. In this “Download ‘AUTOCAD 2000 – Drawing the Granny Flat Plan’ Tutorial in PDF File”, we are going to produce a simple plan drawing of a “granny flat” (illustrated in Figure 1). In this Download ‘AUTOCAD 2000 – Drawing the Granny Flat Plan’ Tutorial in PDF File exercise you will follow through one method of drafting using AutoCAD. Although the tutorial is clearly directed towards architectural drawing, some attempts will be made along the way to suggest how these techniques can be applied to other disciplines. It is important that you don’t just follow the instructions in a “cookbook” style, but that you observe the process, watching the AutoCAD prompts in the Command Window. You should gradually become sufficiently confident with the basic commands of AutoCAD to start trying things out for yourself: don’t be afraid to try to do things a different way to that described in these notes!!

Note that you can always use the Undo command to recover from errors made: simply click the Undo tool button (illustrated) on the Standard toolbar or type u ? in response to the “Command:” prompt. This command reverses the effect of the last command executed. You can use it as many times as you like to “undo” back through your drawing session (at least as far back as the last time you “saved” the drawing to file). Note that the Redo command only reverses the most recent undo operation.

To begin this Download ‘AUTOCAD 2000 – Drawing the Granny Flat Plan’ Tutorial in PDF File, fire up AutoCAD (using Architectural Desktop) in the way described in the first tutorial. Select the Start from Scratch button using the metric option. Once AutoCAD is loaded, it is prudent to begin by telling it where you want to store this drawing: select File > Save As and, on drive S: (the student storage folder) and in your own user’s folder, enter any name of your own choice for the drawing file.

Note that, since we are about to begin a new drawing, you will need to set the Units and Limits for this new drawing. For this exercise, make your drawing size about 15,000 x 12,000. Simply follow the same steps as you did during the last two tutorials: if you can, try to do it from memory by following the AutoCAD prompts (you’ll find the commands in the Format menu). Don’t forget to use Zoom All to view your whole drawing sheet before proceeding.

Before proceeding with this Download ‘AUTOCAD 2000 – Drawing the Granny Flat Plan’ Tutorial in PDF File, we need to say a few things about the Object Snap tools that were introduced in the last two tutorials. Whenever you are required to use object snap, I will indicate that by nominating which one should be used, as in the following examples: |ENDPoint|, to snap to the end point or corner of an entity; |MIDpoint|, to snap to the midpoint of an entity; or |PERpend|, to snap to a position so as to create an entity that is perpendicular to the selected entity; etc.

There are several ways to activate the object snap tools and I will leave it entirely up to you which one you use in each context: