Download ‘DRAWING WITH AUTOCAD 2000 – INTRODUCTION’ Tutorial in PDF File

November 2nd, 2008

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Here is AutoCAD 2000 Tutorial / AutoCAD Drawing Tutorial / Download AutoCAD 2000 Tutorial / Download AutoCAD Drawing / Download PDF File. This “Download ‘DRAWING WITH AUTOCAD 2000 – INTRODUCTION’ AutoCAD 2000 Tutorial in PDF File” is the first of a series of tutorial introductions to CAD. The overriding aim with these tutorial guides is to give you a firm conceptual understanding of CAD, the scope of techniques available for design and presentation, and strategies for approaching a variety of CAD tasks. In this “Download ‘DRAWING WITH AUTOCAD 2000 – INTRODUCTION’ AutoCAD 2000 Tutorial in PDF File”, we will go through the process of starting up AutoCAD on the computer and then look at some of the basic drawing and editing commands. In the next “Download ‘DRAWING WITH AUTOCAD 2000 – INTRODUCTION’ AutoCAD 2000 Tutorial in PDF File”, we will begin the process of drawing something very simple in order to learn how to attack a drawing task with this system. These tutorials are deliberately verbose, explaining concepts and ideas as you along. It is important, therefore, that you take the time to read and understand those explanations. These tutorials are written for AutoCAD 2000 running under the Windows 95/98 operating environment. Some of the later tutorials make use of enhancement packages that are sold in conjunction with AutoCAD to address specific disciplinary CAD modelling tasks. It is assumed here that the reader is familiar with the general operation of Windows 95/98. If not, then there is a separate handout that explains the Windows operating environment, how to manipulate files and windows, how to execute application programs and how to use the Help facility in Windows. With the release of AutoCAD 2000, AutoDesk has altered its marketing strategy by packaging its base product with various enhancement packages related to specific disciplines (as well as selling the base product separately). Within our Faculty, we use two of those packaged products: Architectural Desktop (for building design) and Land Development Desktop (for landscape design applications). Other packages include Mechanical Desktop (for product design) and Civil Desktop (for advanced land engineering). This tutorial can be run on any of those desktop packages, but it concentrates on the general characteristics of AutoCAD 2000. Later tutorials deal with the specific tools available in those other packages. All the screen shots included in this tutorial came from the Architectural Desktop package. To run AutoCAD 2000, simply select Start > CAD Applications > Architectural Desktop 2.0 from the Windows Start Menu. In the Startup dialogue box, pass your mouse pointer over the four options available: open an existing drawing; start a new drawing with minimal preset values; start a new drawing based on a template file which effectively pre-selects a large number of options including title blocks, text styles and things like that; or you can use a wizard that walks you through the process of selecting drawing units and paper size. For this tutorial, start a new drawing from scratch using metric units.

Source: fbe.unsw.edu.au

Author: Jim Plume