AutoCAD 2005: One Step at a Time, Part I
This step-by-step text meets the updated requirements of AutoCAD 2005 and will help you get acquainted with tables, fields and sheet sets, as it provides many editing tools and useful drawing tricks.
TABLE OF CONTENTS AutoCAD 2005: One Step at a Time, Part I
Lesson 10: Some Useful Drawing Tricks
You've come a very long way since learning the Cartesian Coordinate System so many lessons ago. You've learned the basic 2-dimensional tools for drawing and modifying most objects. You've learned to draw with a precision you probably never dreamt possible on a drawing board. Did you know that this drawing precision enables manufacturers to create products directly from your drawing? It's a system called CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing). CAD-CAM is one possible direction your career might take if you pursue AutoCAD into the 2-dimensional world. This lesson allows you to relax a bit and take a look at some of AutoCAD's tricks and toys meant to enhance the productivity of its users. Some of the toys you may never use; some you might rarely use. But all are full of possibilities.
Let's begin.
10.1 Equal or Measured Distances The Divide and Measure Commands
Both these commands serve to place markers (nodes) at certain locations on an object. Divide places equally spaced nodes along the object. Measure places a node at user-set distances along the object. (Note: Neither command actually breaks the object. Rather, both place nodes along the object.)
| Note | We defined a point, you will recall, as the place where an X-plane intersects a Y-plane. A node is an object that occupies a single point. It serves primarily as an identifier or locator in the drawing. CAD operators frequently use the terms point and |
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