About the Authors
Cheryl R. Shrock is a retired Professor and Chairperson of Computer Aided Design at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California. She is also an Autodesk® registered author. Cheryl began teaching CAD in 1990. Previous to teaching, she owned and operated a commercial product and machine design business where designs were created and documented using CAD. This workbook is a combination of her teaching skills and her industry experience.
Steve Heather is a former Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Aided Design in England, UK. For the past 8 years he has been a Beta Tester for Autodesk®, testing the latest AutoCAD® software. Previous to teaching and for more than 30 years, he worked as a Precision Engineer in the Aerospace and Defense industries.
Steve can be contacted for questions or comments at: [email protected]
AutoCAD® allows you to customize it’s configuration. While you are using this workbook it is necessary for you to make some simple changes to your configuration so our configurations are the same. This will ensure that the commands and exercises work as expected. The following instructions will guide you through those changes.
1. Start AutoCAD®
a. To start AutoCAD, follow the instructions on pages 1-2 through to 1-4. Then return to this page and go to Step 2.
2.
a. Type: options anywhere within the main drawing area then press the <enter> key. (not case sensitive)
b. Type: options on the Command Line then press the <enter> key. (not case sensitive)
The text that you type will appear in the Dynamic Input box or on the Command Line, as shown below:
Note:
AUTOCAD LT USERS:
You may find that some of the settings appear slightly different.
But they are mostly the same.
Configuration Settings
3. Select the Display tab and change the settings on your screen to match the dialog box below.
4. Select the the dialog Open and Save tab and change the settings on your screen to match box below.
5. Select the Plot and Publish tab and change the settings on your screen to match the dialog box below.
6. Select the System tab and change the settings on your screen to match the dialog box below.
7. Select the User Preferences tab and change the settings on your screen to match the dialog box below.
8. After making the setting changes shown below select Apply & Close button.
9. Select the Drafting tab and change the settings on your screen to match the dialog box below.
10. Select the Selection tab and change the settings on your screen to match the dialog box below. (Note: 3D Modeling tab was skipped)
11. Select the Apply button.
12. Select the OK button.
13. Now you should be back to the AutoCAD screen.
AutoCAD 2017 System Requirements for 32-bit
| Description | Requirement |
| Operating System | • Microsoft Windows ® 7 SP1 • Microsoft Windows ® 8.1 with update KB2919355 • Microsoft Windows ® 10 |
| Browser | Internet Explorer ® 9.0 or later. |
| Processor | 1 Gigahertz (GHz) or faster. |
| Memory | 2 GB RAM (3 GB Recommended) |
| Display Resolution | 1360 x 768 (1600 x 1050 or higher recommended) with True Color. 125% Desktop Scaling (120 DPI) or less Recommended. |
| Disk Space | Installation 6.0 GB. |
| Pointing Device | MS-Mouse Compliant. |
| Media | Download and installation from DVD. |
| .NET Framework | .NET Framework 4.6 |
| Additional requirements for large datasets, point clouds, and 3D modeling |
8 GB RAM or more6 GB free hard disk available not including installation requirements1600 x 1050 or greater True color video display adapter, 128 MB VRAM or greater, Pixel Shader 3.0 or greater, Direct3D ® capable workstation class graphics card.Note: 64-bit operating systems are recommended if you are working with large datasets, point clouds and 3D Modeling, and required if you are using the Model Documentation feature of AutoCAD – Please refer to the AutoCAD 2017 64-bit System
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