Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
If your status-bar buttons show icons instead of text, right-click
any
but-
ton, click Use Icons to
de
select the option and display text labels. You can leave
them that way or right-click and select Use Icons again to toggle the icon display
back on.
5. Type
LIMITS
and press Enter.
Drawing limits
define your working area. AutoCAD prompts you to reset the model
space limits. For now, ignore the Dynamic Input tooltip next to the crosshairs and
look at the command window. The command line reads
Specify lower left corner or [ON/OFF] <0.0000,0.0000>:
6. Press Enter to keep 0,0 as the lower-left-corner value.
AutoCAD prompts for the upper-right corner. The command line reads
Specify upper right corner <12.0000,9.0000>
[<420.0000,297.0000>]:
7. Type
100,50 [2750,1250]
(no spaces) and press Enter.
AutoCAD echoes the values you enter at the command line.
100 x 50 corresponds to 10 inches by 5 inches (a little smaller than an 8.5-x-11-inch
piece of paper turned on its long side) times a drawing scale factor of 10 (because
you're eventually going to plot at 1:10 scale). If you're a metric maven, 2750 x 1250
corresponds to 275 mm by 125 mm (slightly smaller than an ISO A4 sheet turned
lengthways) times a drawing scale factor of 10 (because you, too, will eventually
plot at 1:10 scale). See Chapter 4 for more information about drawing scales.
To be honest, setting limits isn't very important in AutoCAD anymore — modern
computers can process much more data than they could in the 1980s when
AutoCAD first appeared — but it does make it easier to plot a drawing from model
space as you do in this chapter.
8. Right-click the Snap Mode button on the status bar and choose Settings. If your
status bar displays button icons rather than text labels, right-click the button with
the Snap Mode tooltip
.
The Snap and Grid tab of the Drafting Settings dialog box appears, as shown in Fig-
ure 3-3. (Note that AutoCAD LT lacks some options that are present in the full ver-
sion of AutoCAD.)
