Basic AutoCAD & Drawing Setup
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| Zoom All | Zooms to the drawing limits.
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| DONUT | Creates thick lined or solid filled circles
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| RECTANG | Command that produces a rectangle as a single object.
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| 0,0 | Origin. Value for the lower left corner of your drawing.
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| Limits | Boundary for your drawing. (Similar to paper size)
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| Units | Measurement assigned to each unit. (Fractions, Decimals, etc)
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| Back-up Procedure | Important to ensure that no work is lost.
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| Common settings in a Template file | Limits, Units, Layers, Precision, Dimension Style, Linetype, etc.
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| DRAGMODE | Controls whether dragging of a circle is permitted.
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| Layer Properties Manager | Allows you to create new layers and adjust the color, linetype, and lineweights as well as whether the layer is active.
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| When does scaling occur in AutoCAD? | Usually during printing.
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| ARC command | Creates accurate arcs based on 3 points.
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| Template file | Drawing file where common settings are stored
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| Lineweights | Used to add emphasis to certain linetypes when plotting.
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| Freeze Layer | Avoids accidental modification of an object in that layer. (Layer is not visible)
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| Lock Layer | Avoids accidental modification of an object in that layer. (Layer is still visible)
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| STATUS command | Provides updated information about various parameters in a drawing.
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| LTSCALE | Controls the size of linetypes. (Set to 1/2 the reciprocal of the plot scale)
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| Alias | Abbreviated command entry at the keyboard.
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| Fastest way to re-enter the previous command | Right Mouse click, Space Bar, or Enter
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| Drafter | person responsible for the preparation of technical drawings
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| Linetypes | Used in drafting to reperesent different elements in a drawing.
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| Load Linetype | Dialog Box that allows you to choose the linetypes to be loaded in a drawing file.
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| Precision | The degree of accuracy assigned to each unit.
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| A-size sheet | 11, 8.5
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| B-size sheet | 17, 11
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| C-size sheet | 22, 17
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| D-size sheet | 34, 22
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| E-size sheet | 44, 34
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| ELLIPSE | Regular oval shape with a major & minor axis
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| TTR | Circle option tangent, tangent, radius
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| Command Alias | Abbreviation of a command used in the command line.
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| Rubber Band effect | Allows you to see a line as you stretch it on the screen
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| Dynamic Input | Allows you to enter commands at the cursor
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