week of 31 October

In this week i learned how to create blocks. Blocks are a very efficient tool for your drawings when you have to draw repetitive objects. You just draw the object once and insert it where ever you need to on your drawing. In the archetectual practice i learned how th read the dimensions which were different from what im used to seeing. The elictrical practice was a little bit harder to draw considering there were no dimensions. It was hard to scale all of the blocks.

Week of October 24

This week I just finished working on dimensioning the practices as well as Lab 1 and Lab 3. In lab three i came up on a problem when i was trying to dimension the drawing that were at an angle. I then discovered that aligned dimensioning allowed me to dimension lines at an angle.

Week of 17 October

In this week i learned how to dimension in the viewport. I also learned that dimensioning should be done on model space and not paper space. I learned how to demension circles with diameters and arcs with radiuses. Arrows and dimesion lines can be edited in the properties menu for the selected dimension. I learned how to draw center lines of a cirlce an easier way. So far i have just been dimensioning my old practices and getting plenty of practice.

Week of 10 october

This week i just finished my lab and jumped ahead to next week.

Week of 3 October

This week i learned the hatch command. This command allows you to fill in objects in order to define what it is or for indication. For example you can hatch an object with bricks or concrete to specify certain things. That is all i pretty much learned this week.

week of 26 september

This week i just caught up on some of the practices and i completed all of them up to date. I put all of the new commands i learned thus far to use. I try to find the most efficient way to do drawings using the commands.

Week of 19 September

In this week i learned six different commands to add to my autacad arsenal. I learned how to rotate an object which pretty much rotates the object from a pivot point or to a certain angle. The scale command allows you to scale an object to a different size. For example if you want to scale an object to half its size then you type in 0.5. The stretch command allows you to to stretch your objects on a certain side or multiple sides at the same time. In order to select the objects that you want to stretch you have to use the dashed square from right to left. The fillet command allows you to round corners of an object by choosing a radius. The chamfer command allows you to cut off corners of an object by either selecting the length you want to remove or by selecting the length and angle. The mirror command lets you symetrize an object. The array command lets you draw a series of objects as either polar or rectangular arrays. The rectangular arrays are drawn as rows and columns and you can also alter the angle as well. The circular array allows you to draw a series of an object that follows an arc of a circle or a complete circle.   

week of 12 september

PLINECONVERTMODE- specifies the fit method used in converting splines to polylines. The 0 integer value creates the polylines with linear segments and the 1 integer value creates polylines with arc segments.

PLINEWID- Allows you to store a default polyline width so whenever you use the polyline command the lines would be drawn to the default width.

FILLMODE- Specifies whether hatches and fills, 2d solids, and wide polylines are filled in. The inital value 1 allows you to see objects that are filled in and 0 does not allow you to see the filled in objects.

This week i learned how to draw polylines and how to convert regular lines into polylines. I learned how to find the area of a polyline shape. I learned how to draw splines but they were not to much fun.

Week 4

COPYMODE- This command allows you to copy an object and place it at a different point. First you select the object you want to copy and then you select the base point of the object. Then you select the point where you want to copy the object.
CIRCLERAD- This command allows you to set the radius of your circles to a certain length.
EDGEMODE-This command sets the cutting edges when you are going to trim certain objects. These edges may also extend from imaginary lines. This command is hard to explain in words but i do understand it.
OFFSETGAPTYPE- Controls how potential gaps between segments are treated when closed polylines are offset.

In this week i learned how to draw circles several different ways as well as rectangles. I learned how to use the trim command and found out that you can extend imaginary cutting edges in order to trim a line that is not actually intersecting an object. 

Week 2

DYNMODE- Turns dynamic input on or off. (Relative or Absolute)
LAYERDLGMODE- Sets the layer manager dialog wich will be used for the layer command.
ZOOMFACTOR- It adjust the zoom strength on the mouse wheel. The settings are between 3 and 100 with 100 having the greatest effect.
DYNPICOORDS- Controls wether the pointer uses relative or absolute format for coordinates.

This week i learned about dynamic input and how it allows you to draw lines in a variety of ways. You can draw lines by plotting from the origin or from the last point. You can also type in angles for your lines. I also learned about layers and the different features you can use on them. Features such as type of lines you wanna use, locking a layer so your not allowed to draw on it, you can make a layer printable or unprintable and you can adjust the dimness of a layer as well.

Drafting Week 1

This week i learned how to navigate the ribbon on autocad and learned a few of the buttons and their functions. I learned that there are six essential buttons that will help you draw anything on autocad.

DWG- Is the format in which autoCAD saves its files.  This format may help you open up drawings from the older software into the newer ones.

DXF- Is a format in which it allows you to operate autocad in other programs.

DWF- A lightweight drawing file format for posting drawings on the Web or sharing them with people who dont have AutoCad.

BAK- Files in Autocad created in the save commands. You may also convert BAK files to DWG.