Lab Assignment 1
AutoCAD Lab #2
Drawing, OSNAP, Formatting
Page 1 of 8
Part 1: Branding your work
We begin this lab by beginning with a good template. You should create a drawing template file to maintain consistent
standards and styles for your work in both groups and on your own. The settings that can be saved in a template include:
• Units of measure and measurement style (UNITS)
• Drafting settings (DSETTINGS)
• Layers and layer properties (LAYER)
• Linetype scale (LTSCALE)
• Dimension style (DIMSTYLE)
• Text styles (STYLE)
• Layout viewports and scales (LAYOUT)
• Plot and publishing settings (PAGESETUP)
When you save these settings in a drawing template file, you can quickly start drawing next time without specifying any
settings!
Let’s begin! Create a template in paper space with the following attributes:
• A title block with your
o Name
o Drawing title
o Class, Class time and Date
o Your own logo
• To do this, open a blank AutoCAD File and go to the Layout1 tab.
o Create/A
ange your title block and logo as you desire. (See Figure 1
and provided examples on Canvas for more detail)
o Type in the Command prompt: layout.
o Then type: sa (to save the cu
ent layout as a template.)
o Enter the name of the layout you are saving (layout1 is the default)
o In the Create Drawing File dialog box, enter a good name for the drawing template file you are creating.
o In Files of Type, select Drawing Template File (*.dwt).
o Click Save
o We will can edit/ add more settings this later, but this is a good start!
To insert a picture:
1. Click Insert tab References panel Attach.
2. In the Select Image File dialog box, select a file name from the list or enter the name of the image file in
the File Name box. Click Open.
3. In the Image dialog box, use one of the following methods to specify insertion point, scale, or rotation:
• Select Specify On-Screen to use the pointing device to insert the image at the location, scale, or
angle you want.
• Clear Specify On-Screen and enter values under Insertion Point, Scale, or rotation.
Figure 1 - KSG's Sample
Template
AutoCAD Lab #2
Drawing, OSNAP, Formatting
Page 2 of 8
Part 2: Creating the base drawing
This lab consists of drafting a city block and placing the boundaries for the different residential structures. The objective
of this part of the lab is to learn how to draw simple shapes within AutoCAD. For this part of the assignment, you will
need to use the OSNAP settings for midpoint, center, end, node, and quadrant. NOTE: YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED
TO SHOW THE OBJECTS IN RED THEY ARE THERE FOR YOUR GUIDANCE.
Directions:
1. Start with a new drawing that calls your template:
a. Go the “A” in the upper left corner and select: New Drawing
. It will ask you to choose a template… choose your newly made template!
c. Go to the Model tab and begin your drawing!
2. Type Units into the command prompt and set the units to Engineering with a precision of two decimals.
3. Draw what you see below in Figure 2.
a. The starting point at the bottom is located at (10’, 10’).
. Begin by drawing the boundaries of the city block use polylines!
c. Draw the residential structures use rectangles and circles!
d. Assume buildings are centered unless otherwise marked.
e. You may have to do some math, the surveyors who gave you this data were being cryptic!
f. Do not add the dimensions yet!
Figure 2 - City Block with Dimensions
AutoCAD Lab #2
Drawing, OSNAP, Formatting
Page 3 of 8
Part 3: Adding some more detail: Arcs
A walkway will be drafted on the residential property (Figure 3) as well as a pool, a jacuzzi and a water fountain. The
purpose of this part of the lab is to practice drawing new shapes, apply concepts learned in videos, and learn all the
various methods for entering data. NOTE: YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO SHOW THE OBJECTS IN RED
THEY ARE THERE FOR YOUR GUIDANCE.
Figure 3 - Where is the residential property?
Directions - Draft the additions to the residential property (See Figure 4.)
Figure 4 - Walkaway dimensions - for construction purposes
1) Center the ellipse at (350’-11.51”, 43’-9.19”)
2) Center the pentagon and inner circle at (311’-1.54”, 26’-5.16”)
3) Additional information is also required for the different arcs. (Please refer to the next page)
Residential Property
15’-1.01”
2’-6”
Tips for drawing arcs
• Draw the arcs in numerical order.
• All the information exists to draw the arcs. The purpose of this assignment is to practice
the different methods of drawing. Every set of arcs is drawn a different way.
AutoCAD Lab #2
Drawing, OSNAP, Formatting
Page 4 of 8
Arc Sets
1. Center XXXXXXXXXX’ – 7.58”, 5’-9.44”)
Starts (316’1.16”, 19’-1.33”)
End (309’-9.58”, 10’)
Center (325’ – 7.58”, 5’-9.44”)
Starts (313’-9.8”, 22’-4.78)
End (305’-8.25”, 10’)
2. Center (311’-1.54”, 26’-5.16”)
3. Enough Info is given.
4. Start (314’-5.65”, 40’)
End (309’-3.03”, 49’-7.36”)
Start (318’-10.77”, 40’)
End (318’-10.83”, 46’-9.20”)
Start (316’-8.29”, 50’-4.84”)
End (309’-3.03”, 53’-7.36”)
XXXXXXXXXXCenters (324’-1.56”, 43’-4.69”)
Here is what you should come up with:
Figure 5 - Close up of finished arcs
Pro Tip:
Are you having trouble with your arcs?
Try holding down control… (reverses direction)
Or… try out your Google FU
Or… come for help in FYLEIC
Or… schedule a meeting with me
AutoCAD Lab #2
Drawing, OSNAP, Formatting
Page 5 of 8
Part 4: Drawing Modification
Directions:
For the following edits, please see the example picture (Figure 6) to help you.
1. Break: One of the buildings would like to add a driveway to their property. The lot that would like to add the
driveway is the lot just to the left of the lot containing the pool. Use the Break command to create the driveway.
The drive way is to be 10’ wide and located centrally on the lower wall of the building (5’ to each side of center,
possibly use Offset to speed up the process).
2. Fillet: Imagine that the City ordinance requires all city blocks to have at least 3 smooth curved corners Fillet the
top left, top right, and bottom right corners of the city block with a radius of 10’.
3. Explode: The building in the furthest left lot (the L shaped structure) will be demolished and replaced on the
same foundation with a small modification. You must first explode the polyline that makes up the structure
outline. The whole building should be moved the C-BUILDING-NEW layer.
4. Offset and Trim: On the same lot with the L shaped structure you will now show what the new building layout
will be. On the top section of the structure the horizontal section offset the right side wall 25’. Trim and erase the
walls to create the new wall location (look at picture shown for idea of what new structure footprint should be).
5. Polyline Edit: After creating the new building footprint turn one of the walls back into a polyline and join the rest
of the walls to it using the join tool under the polyline edit command.
6. Extend: The lot with the pool added a small deck between the Jacuzzi and the pool. To create this deck draw a
line from the center point of the top right straight edge of the octagon at a 45 degree angle extending to the pool.
Next offset this line to either side 4 times on each side. The offset distance is 1’. Extend the lines to the pool and
the Jacuzzi.
Figure 6 - Example of finished edits
AutoCAD Lab #2
Drawing, OSNAP, Formatting
Page 6 of 8
Part 5: Organization of Layers
Directions:
1. Create the following layers on your city block:
a. On the Home tab, select the Layer Properties icon
. Click the New Layer icon
• C-BOUNDARY-EXST and make the color whatever you’d like but make the line type dotted line type
• C-BUILDING-NEW and make this layer cyan and a dashed line type
• C-STRUCTURES-EXST and make this layer white
• E-POWERLINES-EXST and make this layer yellow.
• A-DRIVEWAY-NEW and make this layer green.
• A-DECK-NEW and make this layer blue.
• D – DIMS and make this layer magenta.
2. Move everything in your drawing to the appropriate layer. You can do this several ways!
a. Through clicking on an object, right clicking, and then editing the properties
. Using the properties match icon
c. Click on the object and select the layer directly from layers in the home tab
When you are done with this assignment, nothing should be left on the default (0) layer!!!
Double click on a desired layer to make it your cu
ent working layer.
Part 6: Dimensioning
Directions:
1. Draw the power lines on the D – DIMS layer using the following drawing (Figure 6).
2. To add the dimensions (the lines that