Autocad residential template

You will learn how to change the default folder in the next exercise. For now, navigate to the student file folder and select the Template Architectural-Imperial. A new. The name will also include a number based on how many new drawings were created since AutoCAD was opened. You will see that the file type is. Name the file End Table. Start the Units command or select Units from the Format menu. The Drawing Units dialog box will appear, as shown below.

Expand the drop-down menu in the Layer panel or the Layer toolbar. This menu—shown in the screenshot below—is called the Layer Control Note how the names of the layers refer to the types of objects you might find in an architectural drawing like walls, doors, windows, and furniture.

You would not find objects like these in drawings of circuit boards and car parts! The color swatches show what colors the objects on those layers will be. Click on the layer A-Furniture This will make A-Furniture the current layer so that new objects will be created on the A-Furniture layer and will have the properties assigned to that layer.

Since you will be drawing an end table, you will want it to be on the A-Furniture layer. Now you will draw an end table based on the dimensions given in the diagram below.

Note the architectural units. The diagram is also annotated in an architectural dimensioning style. Start the Rectangle command to make the table top. Click anywhere to establish the start point of the rectangle, then in architectural units, type 2"'4, 2 for the X and Y values.

To make the drawer, press Enter to restart the Rectangle command. Click anywhere for the start point and enter 1"'8, 6 for the dimensions. Now you will draw the legs. Draw a rectangle at another random start point with the dimensions 3"x1'8 Use the Copy command to make a copy of the rectangle and place it anywhere. Use the Move command to assemble the table by attaching the other rectangles to the drawer as shown below. For the last step, use the Circle tool to make the drawer knob by using the Geometric Center snap to place the center point of the circle at the center of the drawer rectangle.

Remember that the cursor must touch the edge of the rectangle to reveal its geometric center. Enter a radius of 1. TIP: Place the center point of the circle at the geometric center of the rectangle, as shown in the screenshot below:.

Another advantage of using AutoCAD blocks is saving space in the file since only the data for one single block or block entity is stored regardless of whether it is repeated 2 or 20 times.

There is another parallel advantage to this, whereby if some of the blocks in our drawing need to be altered, the change only needs to be made in some of them, through the block editor. Once modified and saved, it will be automatically changed in the remaining blocks since it is a single entity. When we produce a design or drawing in order to use it subsequently as a block, the following rules must be taken into account as a minimum for optimum use of blocks:.

One: it is preferable to create the entire block in layer 0 , and thanks to this precaution, if we insert a block of a bed or a table in the "furniture" layer, for example, the inserted block acquires said layer, so that when we manage the layers, activating or deactivating them, the inserted bed will behave like the rest of the elements in that layer.

Two: the units in which we create our blocks must be checked, as they must coincide with the units in which we normally work. Three: by specifying the insertion point, and checking this aspect, along with the previous one, we avoid time-consuming situations in which a block we have inserted cannot be seen or located, giving rise to significant frustration and time wasting. The insertion point is usually a point that is part of the drawing. Four: we must check the types of basic elements such as letters, lines and shading that we use in our blocks, since if these are not part of our library of these elements often the standard one when inserting the CAD block, these elements will not be represented or will be replaced by others.

Five: it is also very common for users to keep hold of very old AutoCAD versions such as v, v, etc. In these cases, we can use the Autodesk DWG TrueView program, which, in addition to being a viewer for a multitude of graphic files, allows these files to be converted into the various existing versions.

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