AutoCAD 2D is introduced in this presentation. It has toolbars and the AutoCAD interface.

1. <<
Introduction to 2D
AutoCAD

2. What is this software??
AutoCAD!!

3. Starting AutoCAD
1. From the Desktop, double click the AutoCAD application icon
2. Use right click on AutoCAD application icon to display shortcut
menu
3. From Start menu, choose Programs. Then choose from the
menu Autodesk, AutoCAD application.

4. Understanding the AutoCAD User
Interface

5. AutoCAD User Interface

6. Parts of AutoCAD User Interface
● APPLICATION MENU – used to search for commands, as well
as access tools to create, open, and publish a file.
● QUICK ACCESS TOOLBAR – it display frequently used tools
with the Quick Access toolbar.

7. Parts of AutoCAD User Interface
● WORKSPACE – control the display and order in
which user interface elements are displayed.
● DRAWING TITLE – shows the file name

8. Parts of AutoCAD User Interface
● APPLICATION EXCHANGE – Autodesk Exchange provides a
web-based experience directly within the product. Included
are tabs that access the sources information. Internet is
mandatory for this.
● RIBBON – is a palette that displays task-based tools and
controls

9. Parts of AutoCAD User Interface
● Ribbon Tabs and Panels
The ribbon is composed of a series of panels, which are organized into tabs
labeled by task. Ribbon panels contain many of the same tools and controls
available in toolbars and dialog boxes.

10. Parts of AutoCAD User Interface
● The dialog box launcher
indicates that you can display a
related dialog box. Display the
related dialog box clicking the
dialog box launcher.
● Dialog Box Launcher

11. Parts of AutoCAD User Interface
● Contextual Ribbon
When you select a particular type of object or execute some commands, a
special contextual ribbon tab is displayed instead of toolbar or dialog box.
The contextual tab is closed when you end the command.

12. Parts of AutoCAD User Interface
• Slideout Panels
An arrow in the middle of a panel title, ,
indicates that you can slide out the panel to
display additional tools and controls. Click on
the title bar of an open panel to display the
slideout panel. By default, a slideout panel
automatically closes when you click another
panel. To keep a panel expanded, click the
push pin, , in the bottom-left corner
of the slideout panel.

13. Parts of AutoCAD User Interface
● Radio Button
Depending on the available space in the vertical
or horizontal ribbon, radio buttons can collapse
into a single button, A single radio button works
as a toggle, allowing you to cycle through each
item in the list, or as a split button, where the
top half of the radio button is a toggle button is
a toggle button and clicking on the arrow icon
in the lower half displays a drop-down of all
items in the list.

14. Parts of AutoCAD User Interface
● DRAWING AREA/WORK PLANE
– where the actual drawing is made. The color is black to help with the
visibility of lines on the computer screen.

15. Parts of AutoCAD User Interface
● CROSSHAIR – a type of cursor consisting of
two lines that intersect. It lets you point to
portions of the drawing area.
●COMMAND WINDOW– is the horizontal window at the bottom of
the AutoCAD window. It is where you can type commands and
command options. It also lists information when you query
AutoCAD for certain types of information. (Press Ctrl 9 to turn
ON/OFF the command line window)

16. Parts of AutoCAD User Interface
● NAVIGATION BAR – it provides access to
navigation and orientation tools from a single
interface
● View cube – Indicates the current
orientation of a model and is reorient the
current view of a model.

17. Parts of AutoCAD User Interface
● Full Navigation Wheel – provides access to the
general and specialized navigation tools.
● Pan – moves the view to the screen
● Zoom – Increases or decreases the magnification
of the view in the current viewport.
● Orbit – rotates the view in 3D space, but
constrained to horizontal and vertical orbit only.
● Show Motion – provides an on-screen display for creating
and playing back cinematic animations for design review,
presentation, and bookmark-style navigation.

18. TWO TYPES OF AUTOCAD ENVIRONMENTS
● Layout tab – specifies a certain sheet size of a
paper for plotting purposes. All model drawings
with a specified scale factor are placed here. It
provides a way to set up your drawing for
printing.
● Model tab –is an endless drawing area for any
scale ratio of an object. It is where you do most
of your drawing and editing.

19. Parts of AutoCAD User Interface
● MODEL SPACE VIEWPORT CONTROLS -
are displayed at the top-left corner of each
viewport, and provide a convenient way of
changing views, visual styles, and other
settings.

20. TWO TYPES OF AUTOCAD ENVIRONMENTS
● UCS – sets the orientation of the User Coordinate
System in 3D space. It also provides the axis of
rotation for ROTATE and the default projection
plane for pointing.
● UCS is the L-shaped icon you see at the lower-left
corner of the drawing area. It represents the
orientation of the UCS axes and the location of the
current UCS origin.

21. Parts of AutoCAD User Interface
● STATUS BAR – displays the cursor location, drawing tools, and tools
that affect your drawing environment.
● Drawing Coordinates - Displays the coordinates of the cursor.

22. Identify the different parts of AutoCAD Interface
GROUP ACTIVITY

23. Status Bar

24. Status Bar
ICON NAME DESCRIPTION
OSNAP or
OSMODE
(Object Snap /
F3)
Snaps the cursor to precise locations on objects, such as
endpoints of lines and centers of circles. (See Object
Snap Tools table at Page 5)
POLAR or
AUTOSNAP
(Polar Tracking /
F10)
Restricts cursor to specified angles. PolarSnap restricts
cursor movement to specified increments along a polar
angle.
ISODRAFT
(Isometric
Drafting / F5)
Simulate a 3D object from a particular viewpoint by
aligning along three major axes.
LWDISPLAY
(Line Weight)
Displays the lineweights assigned to objects.

25. Status Bar
ICON NAME DESCRIPTION
GRIDmode (F7)
Displays a grid pattern that covers the XY plane of the
UCS to help you visualize distances and alignments.
ORTHOmode
(F8)
Constrains cursor movement to the horizontal or
vertical direction.
DYNmode
(Dynamic Input /
F12)
Displays a command interface near the cursor, which
you can use to enter commands and specify options and
values.

26. Direction: Identify the different parts of the status bar in the pictures.
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27. Different Drawing
Tools

28. Different Drawing Tools
Drafting Settings Dialog Box (DSETTINGS or DS)
- It specifies drafting settings organized for
drawing aids such as snap and grid, tracking,
object snaps, dynamic input, quick properties,
and selection cycling.

29. Different Drawing Tools
Toolbars – are collections of buttons or tools
that show icons that represent commands.

30. Different Drawing Tools
Tool Tips – are short descriptions that help
you understand what the icons
represent.

31. Different Drawing Tools
Tool Palettes – let you keep your favorite tools
and drawing components in one convenient
place for quick access.

32. Different Drawing Tools
Docked position – is the default location of the toolbars, which just means
that they are merged with the outer edge of the window to save space.

33. Different Drawing Tools
Floating toolbars – when toolbars are moved away from the edge of the
window and appear “free floating” as opposed to docked.

34. Using Button
Functions of a Mouse
1. Left Button
- Pick or Point button to specify a
point location/position
- To select
objects/commands/menu

35. Using Button
Functions of a Mouse
2. Right Button/Right Click Shortcut
- Frequently opens a menu that
contains options that are context
sensitive.
- If there are no applicable options
at the time of the right-click,
AutoCAD treats the right-click as
Enter button.

36. Using Function Keys

37. Function Keys
FUNCTION
KEYS
DESCRIPTIONS
F1 Online Help
F2
Switches between Graphics screen and Text
screen
F3 Turns Osnap Mode ON/OFF
F4 Turns 3DOsnap ON/OFF
F5 Cycles to Top, Right and Left Isoplanes
F6 Turns Dynamic UCS ON/OFF

38. Function Keys
FUNCTION
KEYS
DESCRIPTIONS
F7 Turns Grid Mode ON/OFF
F8 Turns Ortho Mode ON/OFF
F9 Turns Snap Mode ON/OFF
F10 Turns Polar Tracking ON/OFF
F11 Turns Object Snap Tracking ON/OFF
F12 Turns Dynamic Input ON/OFF

39. - An object snap mode specifies a
point at an exact location on an
object.
- Running object snap modes can be
toggled on and off with the OSNAP
button on the status bar or the
function key F3.
OBJECT SNAPS TOOLS

40. OBJECT SNAPS TOOLS
ICON NAME DESCRIPTION
ENDpoint
Snaps to the closest endpoint of an arc, elliptical arc,
line, mline, polyline segment, or ray to the closest
corner of a trace, solid, or 3D face.
MIDpoint
Snaps to the midpoint of an arc, circle, ellipse, elliptical
arc, line, mline, polyline segment, solid, spline, or xline.
CENter
snaps to the center of an arc, circle, ellipse, or elliptical
arc.
NODe Snaps to a point object.

41. ICON NAME DESCRIPTION
QUADrant
Snaps to a quadrant point of an arc, circle, ellipse, or
elliptical arc.
INTersection
Snaps to the intersection of an arc, circle, ellipse,
elliptical arc, line, mline, polyline, ray,spline or xline.
Note: You may get varying results if you have both
Intersection and Apparent Intersection on at the same
time.
EXTension
Snaps to the extension point of an object. You can
establish an extension path by moving the cursor over
the endpoint of an object.
PERpendicular
Snaps to a point perpendicular to an arc, circle, ellipse,
elliptical, arc, line, mline, polyline, ray, solid, spline, or
xline.
OBJECT SNAPS TOOLS

42. ICON NAME DESCRIPTION
NEArest
Snaps to the nearest point on an arc, circle, ellipse,
elliptical arc, line, mline, point, polyline, spline, or xline.
OBJECT SNAPS TOOLS

43. DISPLAY AND VIEW COMMANDS
1. ZOOM is a command to modify drawing magnification.
2. VTOPTIONS is to control the animated behavior of Zoom
and Pan.
3. PAN shifts drawing display without changing drawing
magnification

44. DISPLAY AND VIEW COMMANDS
4. REDRAW removes blips
5. REGEN forces a complete drawing regeneration. It can be
used after FILL=ON/OFF or TEXTFILL=1/0 or QTEXT
6. VIEWRES control fast zoom mode and screen resolution of
curves

45. USING DIFFERENT SELECTION
METHODS
A. LAST – selects the most recently created visible object.
Command: E (enter) Command: OOPS (enter) -
restores objects erased by the last ERASE command.

46. USING DIFFERENT SELECTION
METHODS
B. PICKBOX – a small box, called the pickbox replaces the
crosshairs on the graphics cursor. You can select objects
individually with the pointing device.
Command: PICKBOX (enter) – to resize the pickbox
Note: Pickbox
will appear on-screen. This
will allow you to select
individual objects.

47. USING DIFFERENT SELECTION
METHODS
C. WINDOW – selects all objects completely
inside a rectangle defined by two points.
Specifying the corners from left to right
creates a window selection.

48. USING DIFFERENT SELECTION
METHODS
D. LASSO – allows you to select objects and components by
drawing a free form shape around them.
E. ALL – selects all objects (except objects in Locked or Frozen
Layers) (CRTL+A)
F. UNDO – cancels the selection of the object most recently
added to the selection set. (CRTL+U or command U)

49. what can you say about the use of software in your
field of specialization?

50. Activity
1. Why we used different drawing tools?
2. Give 5 parts of the AutoCad user interface.
3. What are the 5 navigation bar tools?
Essay: what can you say about the use of software in your field of
specialization?

51. Desktop
Software
You can replace the image on
the screen with your own work

52. Tablet
App
You can replace the image on
the screen with your own work

53. Mobile Web You can replace the image on
the screen with your own work