Wheel may be used to Zoom and Pan or Zoom and display the Object Snap menu. You will learn more about this later.
The following describes how to select the Wheel functions. After you understand the functions, you may choose to change the setting.
To change the setting you must use the MBUTTONPAN variable.
MBUTTONPAN setting 1: (Factory setting)
| ZOOM | Rotate the wheel forward to zoom inRotate the wheel backward to zoom out |
| ZOOM EXTENTS | Double click the wheel to view entire drawing |
| PAN | Press the wheel and drag the mouse to move the drawing on the screen. |
MBUTTONPAN setting 0:
| ZOOM | Rotate the wheel forward to zoom inRotate the wheel backward to zoom out |
| OBJECT SNAP | Object Snap menu will appear when you press the wheel |
To change the setting:
1.Type: mbuttonpan <enter>
2.Enter 0 or 1 <enter>
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
1.Start AutoCAD program
2.Understand AutoCAD Workspaces
3.Recognize all of the features in the AutoCAD Window
To Start AutoCAD use one of the 2 methods below. (Be patient it may take a few minutes to load. It is a large program)
1.Select Start / All Programs / Autodesk / AutoCAD 2015 or Double click on the AutoCAD 2015 desktop shortcut icon
2.The “New Tab” page should appear.
Note: Your computer should be connected to the Internet.
The New Tab page contains two sliding content pages called LEARN and CREATE.
CREATE: The Create page (shown below) is displayed by default and allows you to start a New drawing, Open an existing drawing or template, Explore sample drawings, view Recent documents or access Online Services.
You can start a new drawing using the default template by clicking on the Start Drawing tool, or you can access a list of available templates by clicking on the Templates down
Note:The last template you use will become the new default template and is highlighted in the template dropdown list.
Note:
The drawing template acad.dwt is for imperial measurements.
The drawing template acadiso.dwt is for metric measurements.
Click on the Start Drawing tool to open the default template and to open the main AutoCAD drawing workspace.
Note: If your screen does not appear as shown below go to the Intro section of this workbook and follow the steps for configuring AutoCAD to match the workbook configuration.
The following pages will describe each area and element.
I know you are anxious to start drawing but be patient and read the remainder of this lesson. It is very important that you understand and are familiar with AutoCAD’s interface.
Note: You can close the Design Feed palette by clicking on the “X”. This will not be used until later in the workbook.
The AutoCAD Application Window default workspace
Drafting & Annotation, is shown below.
Important: I have changed my 2D background color to white for this workbook. Yours may be another color.
AutoCAD 2015 comes with new Dark and Light color themes, on some of the images within this book you may see the ribbon color showing the Light theme, this is just for clarity. You may choose the Light theme if you wish.
You may change the color of many areas using: Options / Display tab / Colors button
If the remainder of your screen does not appear as shown below go to the Intro section of this workbook and follow the steps for configuring AutoCAD to match the workbook configuration.
A description of each area is shown on the following pages.
APPLICATION WINDOW DESCRIPTIONS
Workspaces control the display of ribbons, tabs, menus, toolbars, and palettes. AutoCAD gives you the option of deciding how you would like them displayed. When you use a workspace, only the menus, toolbars, and palettes that are relevant to a task are displayed. For example if you selected the 3D Modeling
