A | B |
Decimal | Millimeter Units |
Snap | how much your crosshairs jump on grid |
Midpoint | Snaps to the middle of the line |
Osnap | features, MIDPOINT,INTERSECTIONS,PERPENDICULAR, TANGET |
Grid | Uniform pattern of dots |
Ortho | when turned on automatically draws straight line horizontal and vertical |
Pan | move the drawing around so that a differnet part of the drawing appears on the screen |
Redo | restores what you have undone |
Draw Commands | Line,circle, and arc |
Polyline | allows you to draw a series of lines and arcs as a single entity and specfiy width |
Polygon | cad command that allows you to draw a hexagon |
Text Command | Cad command that allows you to add lettering on a drawing. |
CAD | A elctronic way of producing a technical drawing |
2D Drawings | Computer aided drafting |
3D Modeling | Computer aided design |
horizontal | X axes of Cartesian coordinate system |
vertical | Y axes of Cartesian coordinate system |
font | style of lettering |
grid | uniform pattern of dots that help estimate distance |
zoom | display command that shows all, extents and window |
Drawing Space | Paper size |
units | sets drawing outputs; can be decimal or architectural |
help | AutoCAD assistance |
defpoints | AutoCAD layer that will not plot |
toolbars | drawing commands are selected from these |
plotter | produces a hardcopy |
hardcopy | printed AutoCAD drawing |
layers | create and change these to keep order in a drawing |
limits | set the size of your working space |
regen | recalculates and redraws all objects on screen |