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ADAMA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE

ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT
AUTOCAD PRIMARY
SETTINGS, AND
MODIFYING TOOLS
JEMAL S.
OCT. 2015
CONTENT
 Starting a new drawing with the startup
dialogue box,
 Setting, drawing units & limits, Primary
drawing and modifying tools
 The AutoCAD coordinate system
CUSTOMIZE
STARTUP
Command line switches can specify a separate
startup routine for each project.
A quick way to begin a new drawing is to start from scratch,
which starts a drawing that uses settings from a default drawing
template file.
You set the STARTUP system variable to 1 (on).
TO START A DRAWING FROM SCRATCH WITH THE CREATE
DRAWING DIALOG BOX
If necessary, set the STARTUP system variable to 1

and the FILEDIA system variable to 1. On the
command line, enter startup and 1; then enter filedia
and 1.
Click File menu » New.
In the Create New Drawing dialog box, click Start
from Scratch.
Under Default Settings, click either Imperial or Metric.
The new drawing starts as drawing1.dwg. The default
drawing name changes to reflect the number of new
drawings that have been started. For example, if you
start another drawing, the default drawing name is
drawing2.dwg.
THE AUTOCAD COORDINATE SYSTEM
X,Y,Z Co-Ordinate Entry system
The co-ordinate system in AutoCAD is called the Cartesian co-
ordinate system.
The position of a point can be described by its distance from two axis
, X axes and Y axes
The UCS icon in the lower left corner in the drawing Area shows you
which way the X and Y axis go.
AutoCAD always reads the X axes first and the Y axes second
The lower left corner of your screen is the 0 reference point in the
drawing Area. The 0 reference point is at the exact point intersection
of the X and Y on the UCS icon.
The AutoCAD coordinate system
0 degrees is the same as 360 degrees

THE AUTOCAD COORDINATE
SYSTEM
There are three types of coordinate entry method to locate points

when creating objects
Absolute coordinate
Relative coordinates
Polar coordinates
ABSOLUTE COORDINATE
Absolute coordinates are based on the UCS origin (0,0),
which is the intersection of the X and Y axes. Use absolute
coordinates when you know the precise X and Y values of the
point.
use Cartesian coordinates to specify a point, enter an X value and a

Y value separated by a comma (X,Y). The X value is the positive or
negative distance, in units, along the horizontal axis. The Y value is
the positive or negative distance, in units, along the vertical axis.
ABSOLUTE COORDINATE
Command: L
LINE Specify first point: -2,1
B
Specify next point or [Undo]: 3,4
A
RELATIVE COORDINATES
 Relative coordinates are based on the last point entered.
 Use relative coordinates when you know the location of a point in
relation to the previous point.
 To specify relative coordinates, precede the coordinate values
with an @ sign.
 For example, entering @3,4 specifies a point 3 units along the X
axis and 4 units along the Y axis from the last point specified.
RELATIVE COORDINATES
Command: L
LINE Specify first point: -2,1
Specify next point: @5,0
Specify next point: @0,3
C Specify next point: @-5,-3
A
B
POLAR COORDINATES
 Polar coordinates are based on the distance and angle.
 To use polar coordinates to specify a point, enter a distance and
an angle separated by an angle bracket (<). @distance<angle
 By default, angles increase in the counterclockwise direction and
decrease in the clockwise direction.
 To specify a clockwise direction, enter a negative value for the
angle. For example, entering 1<315 locates the same point as
entering 1<-45.
 To specify relative coordinates, precede the coordinate values

with an @ sign. For example, entering @1<45 specifies a point at
a distance of 1 unit from the last point specified at an angle of 45
degrees from the X axis.
POLAR COORDINATES
Command: L
From point: @3<45
To point: @5<285
B
POLAR COORDINATES
 Exercise: write the right command to draw the object shown
below using polar coordinates.
Command: L
LINE Specify first point: 2,2
Specify next point: @3.61<33.69
Specify next point: @2.83<225
Specify next point: @2.83<135
Or C (close)
TIME FOR A BREAK TIME……

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ADAMA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE

If necessary, set the STARTUP system variable to 1

0 degrees is the same as 360 degrees

There are three types of coordinate entry method to locate points

use Cartesian coordinates to specify a point, enter an X value and a

 To specify relative coordinates, precede the coordinate values

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