TABLE OF CONTENTS After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
Understand Scaled Drawings
Adjust the scale within a Viewport
Understand Annotative Objects
Understand Paper space vs. Model Space dimensioning
In the lessons previous to Lesson 26 you worked only in Model space. Then in Lesson 26 you learned that AutoCAD actually has another environment called Paper Space, or Layout. In this lesson we need to learn more about why we need 2 environments and how they make it easier to display and plot your drawings.
A very important rule in CAD you must understand is:
"All objects are drawn full size".
In other words, if you want to draw a line 20 feet long, you actually draw it 20 feet long. If the line is 1/8" long, you actually draw it 1/8" long.
In the previous lessons you created medium sized drawings. Not too big, not too small. But what if you wanted to draw a house? Could you print it to scale on an 8-1/2 X 11 piece of paper? How about a small paper clip. Could you make it big enough to dimension? Let's start with the house.
Remember the photo and picture frame example I suggested in lesson 26? (Refer to 26-5) This time try to picture yourself standing at the front door of your house with an...
