CREATING AND PLOTTING SCALED DRAWINGS

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 plotting drawings easier.

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.

Drawing and Plotting objects that are very large or very small.
In the previous lessons you created basically 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 a 17 11 piece of paper? How about a small paper clip. Could you make it big enough to dimension? Let's start with the house.

Drawing something large such as a house.

1. Start a new drawing from scratch. (26-19)

2. Set the units for the drawing to Architectural.

3. Set the snap to: 3 inches and Set the grids to: 1 foot

4. Set the drawing limits, in model space, to:

   • Lower left corner: 0, 0 Upper Right Corner: 45 ?, 35 ? (feet) then (Zoom / All)

   • Now your drawing area is big...