Autodesk 003A1-121111-1001 Getting Started - Page 16

Draw Efficiently Draw with less effort and revise with more speed: these are the two main reasons you use CAD. AutoSketch has a complete set of drawing and editing tools to help eliminate repetitive, time-consuming drafting tasks. If you work with paper and a drawing board, your set of drawing tools is likely to include pencils, scales, parallel rules, templates, and erasers. Repetitive drawing and editing tasks must be done manually. In AutoSketch, you can choose from a variety of drawing tools that create lines, rectangles, circles, curves, and more. You can save drafting time by drawing one half of an item and then mirroring it to create the other half. With AutoSketch, you can easily copy, scale, rotate, and mirror entities. You can move or copy entities between open drawings or within the same drawing. Editing is easy with tools such as stretch, align, and offset. To add hatching, simply insert a hatch pattern from the AutoSketch Content Librarian into the area to be filled. In this drawing of a trolley, copying and mirroring were used to create repeated and symmetrical features. Offsetting lines and hatching were also used to draw more efficiently. 10 | Chapter 2 Make the Transition from Paper to CAD