Detailed explanation of AutoCAD common menu

File menu: Open: Open an existing drawing.

1), layout open: display the available graphics view and layer to specify which geometry to load into the selected graphics, when processing a large graphics file, you can choose to open the graphics only Load as few of the necessary geometry as possible.

2) Select the initial view: If the drawing contains multiple named views, the specified view is displayed when the drawing is opened.

3) Find files: Users can browse preview images of DWG files or search for files on the local and network.

4), Position: Display the path of the selected file.

Partial loading: When opening a very complicated graphic, if you choose to open the inner cloth to open, and then select several layers inside, but open it and found that one or a few hits, At this time, you can use this command to open this dialog again and reselect.

Output: CAD graphics can be saved in a different format. Select which type the object is output to in the Save as type list. Take a picture of one of the most common BMP bitmap images.

Page Setup:

1. Print Device Tab:

1) To name and save the current page settings, select “Add” to display “Users Defined page settings & rdquo; dialog. To edit the name of the page setup directly, select F2. To delete and rename user-defined page settings, select a page setup name from the list, then right-click and select “Delete” or “Rename”.

2) Features: To view or modify the printer's configuration information, select “features”. Display & ldquo; Printer Configuration Editor & rdquo;.

3) Tip: Display help topics to guide you through the selection of the most appropriate printer driver, including where to choose system or non-system drivers, and guidelines for choosing a printer driver.

4) Print Style: Use print styles to change the print quality of objects in a graphic. For example, you can print the same graphic in different ways, emphasizing different elements or layers in the building. A print style is an alternative to a series of colors, dithering, grayscale, fade, line style, join style, and fill style, and you can specify a print style for any object or layer. To use a print style, you must have the task: Define a print style in the print sample sheet. Attach a print style sheet to the layout. Specify a print style for the object or layer.

Second, layout settings: usually refers to the page settings, which control the final print output. These settings determine the printing device, paper size, zoom ratio, print area, print origin, and rotation angle. Only by knowing how to use the layout settings can you print out the ideal graphics. You can modify the layout settings in the "Page Setup" dialog box and save them to the layout without actually printing. People can enter layout settings into the current layout from a PCP or PC2 file.

1. Print area:

1) Layout: Print all the geometry in the border of the drawing. This option is only available in the Layout tab.

2) Boundary: Prints the current graphic boundaries. This option can only be used in the "Model" tab.

3) Range: Prints all objects in the drawing.

4) View: To print a saved view, first save a view. Select the “View" option and select the “View" button to display the Command View dialog and then select the Named View.

5) Window: Print the geometry in the specified area, select some options, and then select the "window" button to define the area.

2, printing ratio: control the printing area, the default setting when printing the layout is "scaling according to the paper space"; if the standard ratio is selected, the scale value will be displayed in the "custom" text box Medium:

1) Scale: Defines the exact scale of the print. The four standard scales used recently will be displayed at the top of the list.

2) Custom: Specify a user-defined scale, enter the number of inches or millimeters and their equivalent number of graphic units, you can create a custom scale.

3) Zoom line width: The line width is proportional to the print scale. Normally, the line width is used to specify the width of the line to be printed and print according to the line width, regardless of the print ratio. (Only available in layout space)

4) Print offset: Specify the offset of the print area from the lower left corner of the drawing. The lower left corner of the print area specified in the layout is at the lower left corner of the margin of the sheet. , you can enter a positive or negative value to deviate from the print origin. Centered Print: Place the printed graphic in the middle of the drawing. X: Specify the offset value of the print origin in the X direction. Y: Specify the offset value of the print origin in the Y direction.

3, printing options:

1) Print object line width: only the line of the geometry is widened to see the effect. Controls whether the width of the line of the geometry is printed.

2) Print style: First select a print style in the printing device. Depending on the object used and printed, all style definitions with different characteristics are stored in the print style sheet and can be easily attached to the geometry. Controls whether the print style is printed.

3) Finally print the paper space: first print the geometry of the model space, usually, the geometry of the paper space is printed before the geometry of the model space.

4) Hidden Object: Printed the layout of the hidden line of the object in the layout environment (paper space). The hidden line deletion of the model space object in the viewport is through the blanking in the "characteristics" window. Controlled by the plotting feature, this setting will be reflected in the print preview, but not reflected in the layout.

Printer Manager: Add a new printer or plotter.

Print Style Manager: Modify and edit print styles.

File/Drawing Utility/Verification: Verification is a diagnostic tool for checking current graphics and modifying errors for each checked error. The CAD gives the corresponding description and proposes a correction method. The verification puts all the objects that detected the error in the “previous” selection set, but the editing command only affects objects belonging to the current paper space or model space.

File/Drawing Utility/Repair: In the Select File dialog box, enter a graphic file name or select a damaged graphic file. AUTOCAD starts to repair the file and displays the result in the text window. When FILEDIA is set to 0, RECOVER will display a command prompt.

Attributes:

First, basic attributes:

1) Read-only: Tables are read-only files that are not accidentally changed or deleted.

2) Archive: Indicates that it is an archive file. AUTOCAD uses this setting to determine which files need to be backed up.

3) Hidden: Indicates that the file is hidden, unless you know the file name or you can't see it or use it.

4) System: indicates that it is a system file, CAD graphics cannot be set to “system” attributes.

Summary: Shows predefined features such as author, title and subject. For example, add a keyword to a graphic file. Then you can use the CAD Design Center to search for all graphic files with a specific keyword.

1) Title: Specify the title to be used when searching for the graphic. The title can be different from the graphic file name.

2) Theme: Specify the theme of the graphic, you can use the theme name to group the graphics with the same theme.

3) Authors: Specifies the graphics, the author's name can only be user input or modified to change the author, delete the existing name and enter a new name can be.

4) Keywords: Specify keywords for finding graphics.

5) Comment: Specify a comment for finding a graphic.

6) Hyperlink Base Address: Specify the base address of all related links in the inserted graph. You can specify an IE address to the folder path on the network drive.