Creating a Work Space on CAD

• lesson
  • pallets - 2-D tools, constraints, attributes
  • commands - move, duplicate array
  • naming and saving - as a template, naming conventions
  • layers
• instructions
  • Open your template for which you added your logo in the title block. (or if you have not created a logo open the generic template)
  • Go to the layers set up and you will see there are two layers in this template.
    • change the name of the 'drawing' layer to 'construction'
    • add a new layer and call it 'building'
    • make the scale of both 'construction' and 'building' layers to 1:100 (leave the title block&border layer at 1:1)
    • exit the layers set up
  • under page menu, select set grid..., set snap grid to 100 and reference grid to 1200 mm
  • save your drawing as 'yournamegarage28se', in your central server (except use the first few letters ofyour name and the current day and month). The program will add a .mcd extension onto the file name. The next time you work on the file, say on Oct 3, save the file as 'yournamegarage03oc' and so on such that you have a record of prograssion on the drawing and you can be protected from drawing corruption problems.