The document provides information about AutoCAD, including: 1. A list of 71 common AutoCAD commands and their shortcuts. Commands allow users to draw geometry like lines, circles, rectangles, as well as modify objects, dimension, work with layers and layouts. 2. A brief history of AutoCAD's development from 1982 to the present. 3. An overview of the applications of AutoCAD in fields like engineering, carpentry, painting and drafting. 4. Descriptions of some key commands like line, circle, array, move, scale, dimension, layer and block.

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Automatic Computer Aided
Design/Drafting (Auto CAD)

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Shortcuts:
s.n Command Shortcut Description
1. ARC A Creates an arc
2. AREA AA Calculates the area
3. ALIGN AL Align objects with other objects
4. ARRAY AR Creates multiple copies of object in pattern
5 BLOCK B Creates a block definition
6. BCLOSE BC Closed the block definition
7. HATCH BH Gradient and Hatch option
8. BOUNDARY BO Created a region or a polyline from an enclosed area
9. BREAK BR Breaks the selected object between two points
10 BSAVE BS Saves the current block definition
11. CIRCLE C Creates a circle
12. PROPERTIES CH Controls properties
13. CHAMFER CHA Bevels the edges of objects
14. COLOR COL Sets the color for new objects
15. COPY CO/CP Copies objects specified distance in a specified direction
16. DIMSTYLE D Creates and modifies dimension styles
17. DIMANGULAR DAN Creates an angular dimension
18. DIMARC DARC Creates arc length dimension
19. DISTANCE DI Measures the distance and angle between two points
20. DIVIDE DIV Creates evenly distance and angle between two points
21. DSETTINGS DS Sets grid and snap, polar and object snap
22. TEXT DT Creates a single line text object
23. ERASE E Removes object from a drawing
24. ELLIPSE EL Creates an ellipse or elliptical arc
25. EXTEND EX Extends object to meet the edges of other objects
26. QUIT EXIT Exits the program
27. FILLET F Rounds and fillets the edges of objects
28. FILTER FI
29. GROUP G Creates and manage saved sets of objects called groups
30. GRADIENT GD Gradient fill
31. HATCH H Fills an enclosed area
32. HATCHEDIT HE Modifies an existing hatch or fill
33. INSERT I Insert a block or drawing into current drawing
34. DIMJOGGED JOG Creates jogged dimension for circle and arcs

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35. LINE L Creates straight line segments
36. LAYER LA Manages layer and layer properties
37. LENGTHEN LE Changes the length of objects
38. LINETYPE LT Loads sets, and modifies linotypes
39. LWEIGHT LW Sets current line weight
40. MOVE M Moves objects a specified distance in specified direction
41. MATCHPROP MA Applies the properties of a selected object to other
42. MEASURE ME
43. MIRROR MI Created mirrored copy of selected objects
44. MLEADER MLD Creates a multi leader object
45. MLINE ML Creates multiple parallel lines
46. MVIEW MV Creates and control layout viewports
47. OFFSET O Creates offset
48. OPTIONS OP Customizes the program settings
49. OSNAP OS Sets running object snap modes
50. PAN P Adds a parameter with grips
51. PLYLINE OR PLINE PL Create 2d polyline
52. PEDIT PE Edits polyline
53. POINT PO Create a point object
54. PROPERTIES PR Display properties palette
55. PRINT/PLOT PLOT Plots the drawing
56. QUICKCALC QC Quick calculator
57. REGEN RE Regenerates the entire drawing from the current viewports
58. ROTATE RO Rotates the object around a base point
59. STRETCH S Stretches the objects
60. SCALE SC Enlarge or reduce the size of object
61. SPLINE SOL Checks spelling in a drawing
62. STYLE ST Creates modifies, or specifies text styles
63. MTEXT T Creates a multiple text objects
64. TABLE TB
65. TRIM TR Trims objects to meet edges of other objects
66. TABLESTYLE TS Creates, modifies, or specifies tablestyles
67. UNITS UN Controls coordinate and angle display
68 WBLOCK W Writes objects or a block to new drawing file

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69 EXOLODE X Breaks a components into its components objects
70 XREF XR Starts the external references
71. ZOOM Z

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Series Index:
0. General Overview and Installation of CAD
1. Exploring the User Interface
2. Managing File and Options
3. Navigating Drawings
4. Drawing Objects
5. Modifying Objects
6. Drawing Accurately
7. Practice Drawing Projects
8. Hatching and Creating gradients
9. Writing and text
10. Dimensioning
11. Working with Layers
12. Making External References
13. Working with Layouts
14. Creating Output

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Historical Development of Auto CAD
 Started since 1982 and named as Version-1
 Release-12 1992
 Release-14 1997 (upgraded only on Windows Operating System with GUI)
 Auto CAD-2000
 Auto CAD -2000i
 Auto CAD - 2002
 Auto CAD - 2004
 Auto CAD – 2005
 Auto CAD – 2006
 Auto CAD – 2007
 …………………..
 Auto CAD – 2016
Application of Auto CAD:
 All the Engineering Field Where Drawing is needed
 Carpentry
 Painting
 Drafting
 Art and Graphic
Model space & Paper Space – Workspace

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Commands:
Units
Keyboard: units shorcut UN
Line:
Toolbar – draw
Keyboard Line shortcut L
Construction Line:
Keyboard Shortcut: XL or Type XLine
The Construction line creates line of infinite length which passes through two picked points
, press Hl for horizontal and VL for vertical construction line
Ray:
Type Ray or Shorcut: Ray
This is similar to construction line expect it only end infinitely at one direction only.
Polyline:
Keyboard: Polyline or Pline Shortcut: PL
This is similar to line expect that the output object is single.
Rectangle:
Select Rectangle icon from palate, or type Rec
Polygon:
Command: Polygon, then provide no. of side

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Donut:
Keyboard: Donut or shortcut: DO
Revcloud:
Keyboard: REVCLOUD
Circle: C, Arc- A, Ellipse
Spline:
Keyboard: spline or SPL
Wipeout, Erase (E ), Oops
The oops command provide us to go back if we do any mistake while drawing.
Point:
Keyboad: Po
Remember to use DDPTYPE to use different
style of pont.
Copy:
Type: Copy or CP or CO

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Mirror:
Keyboard: Mirror or MI
This command allows you to mirror selected
objects in your drawing.
Offset:
Keyboard: offset or O
This is one of most useful command for constructing
drawing.
Array:
Keyboard: Array or AR
Rectangular array, polar array
Move:
Keyboard: move or M
Rotate:
Keyboard: ROTATE or RO
This command allows an object or objects to be rotated about a point selected by the users.
Scale:
Keyboard: SCALE or SC
Note: the size of object will be increase if scale factor is greater than 1 and decrease if scale
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Align:
Keyboard: ALIGN or AL
Stretch:
Keyboard: STRETCH OR S
Stretching with Grips: Although the Stretch command can be very useful, it has largely been superseded by
the use of “Grips” which allow this sort of modification to be made much more intuitively.
Trim:
Keyboard: TRIM or TR
Extend:
Keyboard: EXTEND or EX
Chamfer
Keyboard: CHAMFER or CHA

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Fillet:
Keyboard: FILLET or F
Explode:
Keyboard: Explode or X
This command is used to “explode” single objecs back to their constituents parts.
Orhto mode: f8 or ortho
Grid: f7 or grid
Drafing Setting:
Keyboard: DS,
DDRMODE,DDOSNAP
*Press shift+ right mouse button to get temporarily snap option, this is very useful

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Layer:
Keyboard: LAYER or LA
DIMENSIONING:
AutoCAD provides a whole range of
dimensioning tools which can be used to
quickly dimension.

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AutoCAD divides
dimension into four
main categories:
Linear, Radial,
Ordinate and Angular.
When we create
dimension, AutoCAD
automatically creates
a new layer called
“Defpoints” this is a
special layer which
cannot be deleted or
renamed.
Linear
Dimension:
Keyboard:
dimlinear
Continue Dimension:
Keyboard: Dimcontinue
Baseline Dimension:
Keyboard: dimbaseline

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Alinged Dimension:
Keyboard: dimalinged
Dimension text edit :
Keyboard : dimtedit
Block:
Block is a group of objects, it is used for repeated use of drawing.
To define block, select the object or objects then press B
Then give the desirable name of Block,
MatchProperties:
Keyboard: MA
It applies properties of the source object to desired objects. It
matches the properties like layer, hatch, line wt. etc.
ViewPort:
Keyboard: MV that means make viewport

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