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AutoCAD Drawing Session Basics

This chapter provides an overview of a typical AutoCAD drawing session, including starting a session, creating a new drawing, and saving work. It explains the use of drawing templates, which can save time by providing predefined settings and layouts. The chapter also details the process of saving a drawing using the QSAVE command, which allows users to name and store their files.

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AutoCAD Drawing Session Basics

This chapter provides an overview of a typical AutoCAD drawing session, including starting a session, creating a new drawing, and saving work. It explains the use of drawing templates, which can save time by providing predefined settings and layouts. The chapter also details the process of saving a drawing using the QSAVE command, which allows users to name and store their files.

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Introduction

This Chapter Will Give You An Overview Of A Typical Autocad Drawing


Session. You Examine Some Of The Basic Operations You Will Do On A Day-
To-Day Basis When Using Autocad, Including Starting An Autocad Session,
Drawing And Modifying Some Objects, And Saving And Plotting Your
Drawing. All The Topics Touched On In This Chapter Will Be Explained In
Greater Detail In The Following Chapters. Let’s Start By Creating A New
Drawing.

Creating a New Drawing

When you start a new drawing in AutoCAD, it places you in a blank drawing by
default. This blank drawing is based on a number of default AutoCAD settings,
which are stored in a drawing template. In addition to this default template,
AutoCAD gives you other templates to choose from, which can save you time in
setting up your drawing.

drawing template: A drawing used as a starting point when creating a new


drawing. Drawing templates can contain page layouts, borders, title blocks, layer
settings, and many other settings or drawing objects you use on a regular basis.

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Using a Template

AutoCAD provides a number of predefined templates with default settings for


various drawing disciplines. These drawing templates typically have title blocks
in them and predefined settings for text, dimensioning, and plotting. You can
also create your own templates or save any drawing as a template.

You can start a new drawing based on one of the predefined templates by
selecting the Templates drop-down menu under Start Drawing on the left of
the Start Tab to display the Templates list (see Figure 2-1)

Saving Your Work


When you create a new drawing using a template, it is initially
named Drawing followed by an incremental number ([Link],
[Link], [Link], etc.), indicating its place in the series when it
was created. The drawing does not exist as a file on your computer or network
until you save it at least once by selecting Save from the Quick Access toolbar,
which runs the QSAVE command.
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The QSAVE command is short for “Quick Save,” although it is not so
quick the first time you use it. The first time you use QSAVE, the standard
Windows Save Drawing As file dialog box shown in Figure 2-2 is displayed
so that you can give the drawing a file name and folder location to store the
file on your computer or network. Subsequent use of the QSAVE command
simply updates the file in its specified location, hence the “Quick” part.

FIGURE 2-2 The Save Drawing As file dialog box

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