AUTOCAD LECTURE 5

ORTHOGRAPHIC VIEWS IN AUTOCAD

University of Illinois at Chicago
ME250, Spring 2014
By Sin-Pui Fu
2 April 2014
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OBJECTIVE
Layer properties
Offset
Hidden line
Centerline
Orthographic views
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REVIEW OF ORTHOGRAPHIC VIEWS
Orthographic views are 2-D views of 3-D objects.
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Engineering Graphics with Autocad
2002, James D. Bethune Fig 5-1
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Third Angle Orthographic View
LAYER
Use layers to control the visibility of objects and to
assign properties such as color and linetype.

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LAYER AND CNC MACHINE SETTING
Layer setup is very important to convert the cad drawing to CAM
software for CNC machine. For example: you may need to set up the
cut depth by layer, etc..
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LAYER PROPERTIES
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Click the icon to manage the layers
LAYER PROPERTIES MANAGER
After you click the icon, you can start to edit your
layer in Layer Properties Manager window
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Layer On/ Off
Add New Layers
Select Color
Select Linetype
Select Lineweight
Non-print/ Print layer
LINEWEIGHT

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CONSTRUCTION LINE
Command xl
Lines that extend to infinity in one or both
directions, known as rays and construction lines,
respectively, can be used as references for creating
other objects.

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Construction Line
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Original Object
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Create Front View. Use rays to transfer Front View geometry to Top View.
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Create a 45 ray from top right corner of Front View
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Use Rays to transfer Top & Front View geometries to Side View.
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Delete Rays or turn off layer.
CONSTRUCTION LINE LAYER

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Select cyan color
Use Continuous Line
CENTER LINE
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Centerlines represent holes in orthographic views

Center Line
Center Line
Center Line
Engineering Graphics with Autocad
2002, James D. Bethune Fig 5-45
CREATE CENTER LINE LAYER

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Select red color
Load linetype and
choose Center
HIDDEN LINE
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Hidden lines are used to represent surfaces that
are not directly visible in an orthographic view.
Engineering Graphics with Autocad
2002, James D. Bethune Fig 5-9
CREATE HIDDEN LINE LAYER

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Rename the layer, Select the color and linetype
SELECTING LINETYPE

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Select blue color
Load linetype and
choose HIDDEN
COMMAND : OFFSET
Offset an object at a specified distance or through a
point
Step1: Type command offset
Step2: specify the distance
Step3: select a object
Step4: specify the displacement
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PROCEDURE
Step1: create construction line, hidden line and
center line layers
Step2: select construction line layer and draw
two construction lines
Step3: use offset function to specify the distances
Step4: use line function to draw the object
Step5: draw hidden line
Step6: draw center line
Step7: Type LTS to change the line type scale to
show dash line
Step8: attach Titleblock
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