Tutorial 9.pdf

CIVL103, Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering

Eastern Mediterranean University, Spring 2013-2014

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RECEPTION

ENTRANCE

RECEPTION

Fig 9.1: Reception Plan



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Introduction

In this tutorial you will draw the reception of a building. The dimensions of the drawing are

all in cm as seen in Fig 9.1. However you will draw these in mm as given in the following

guidelines.You can find the other details below.

DRAW THE FOLLOWING USING THE AUTOCAD COMMANDS

WALLS : RED

WALLS HATCH STYLE

ANSI 36

angle: 0

scale: 5

STAIRS: GREY

STAIRS HATCH STYLE:

HEX

angle: 45

scale: 5

TEXT:

ARİAL

height: 20

WINDOWS: CYAN (BRIGHT TURQUISE)

DIMENSIONS: BLUE

TABLES AND SEATS: MAGENTA (BRIGHT PINK, DRAWN AS BLOCKS)

BIG TREES: GREEN (DRAWN AS CIRCLE)

Starting the Drawing

To start the drawing, first you should decide the limits and units that you have to use.

Setting Limits and Units:

For X Limits

Left margin (3000)+Width of the first figure (10000)+ margin between the 2 figures (4000)+

Width of the second figure (10000) + right margin (3000)= 30000



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For Y limits:

Margin from the top (2500) + The total length (9500)+ + bottom margin (3000 mm)= 15000

You can arrange your limits as (30000, 15000)

Type:

Limits

0, 0

30000, 15000

Next you need to arrange the units. Select Format - Units, AutoCAD will display the

“Drawing Units” dialog box. Make sure Decimal is selected in the Length section and

Decimal Degrees in the Angles section, then in Unit’s Precision, click on the down arrow

beside “0.0000”, and finally select “OK”.

At this point the screen is still displaying the old 420 X 297 size and we need to magnify the

screen to the new size. This is done by typing:

Command: ZOOM

Specify corner of window, enter a scale factor (nX or nXP), or

[All/Center/Dynamic/Extents/Previous/Scale/Window/Object] <real time>: A

Regenerating model.

Alternatively you can select zoom all icon from the zoom toolbar.

Rulers, grids and snapping

Click on Tools Menu

Click on Drafting Settings

In the SNAP section enter 100 in the X spacing box

(The Y spacing changes automatically to 100 by highlighting the Y box)

Check the ON box

Click on OK, arrange the grids to 100 as well.



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Layers:

Click on LAYERS icon (Top left corner of the screen )

(The LAYERS dialogue box appears)

New

Layer

Set

Current

Delete

Layer

Set the layer colours for your drawing as follows:

WALLS: RED

STAIRS: GREY

WINDOWS: CYAN (BRIGHT TURQUISE)

DIMENSIONS: BLUE

TABLES AND SEATS: MAGENTA (BRIGHT PINK, DRAWN AS BLOCKS)

BIG TREES: GREEN (DRAWN AS CIRCLE)

TEXT: RED

Following are detailed steps to develop the drawing:

o Start drawing the walls in RED layer by using the line command as follows:



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Specify First Point: 8300,3000

Specify next point: @4700<0







Specify next point: @200<270 or Close

Finish drawing walls in the plan with the following commands:

Command: Line

Specify First Point: 4000, 7800




Specify next point: Close



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Drawing the stairs (grey layer) as follows, you should first draw the bottom left corner

and then mirror the same image with 2000 spacing.

Draw a line starting from 8300,3000 or end point of bottom wall;

Specify first point: 8300,3000




Specify next point:@1200<270



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o Click on “Fillet” Command on the Toolbar in order to create 500 units round shape

around the corner of the grey rectangle drawn in the previous figure.

Specify First Object or [Undo/ Polyline/Radius/Trim/Multiple]: R, press enter

Specify Fillet Radius: 500, press enter

Specify fillet object: Select bottom grey line

Select second object: Select left hand grey line

Your figure should look like as follows;

o You can mirror the grey rectangular shape first and move 2000 units in order to

access the shape in the figure. Click on “Mirror” Command on the toolbar and then

continue as follows:

Select Objects: Select all pieces of rectangular shape and press enter

Specify first point of mirror line: Select top left corner

Specify second point of mirror line: Select top right corner

Erase source objects: N and then finish the command.



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o Now, using the “Move” Command you can move the upper rectangular shape 2000

units in the y-axis. Click on Move and follow these steps:

Select Objects: Select all pieces of the rectangular shape, press enter

Specify base point: Select bottom right corner of the rectangular shape which is

circled in red in the previous figure

Specify second point: @2000<90



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o Create a line between the two corners of the grey rectangular shapes and offset them

with 500 units as in the original figure and then draw another line from the middle of

these lines.

o Drawing the windows as presented in the original figure by using the Windows-Cyan

layer. First draw the bigger window as follows,

Draw a rectangle starting from (4200, 7800) to (4300, 12300)



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Next draw the two small windows as follows:

Rectangles from (8500, 3200) to (8600, 4400) and (8500, 6400) to (8600, 7600)

o Drawing the entrance doors by using line and arc commands as follows;

Lines from (8500, 4400) to (7600,4400); (8500,6400) to (7600,6400)

Draw the arcs with the type of (Start, End, Angle)

First Arc: Start Point (8550,5400); End Point (7600,4400); Angle:90

Second Arc: Start Point (7600,6400); End (8550,5400); Angle:90

o Now, it is time to draw tables and seats in the Pink Layer. Please follow these

commands;

Using some assumptions, Draw two circles centred as (6550,10050) and (9800,

10050) with Radius 600.



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Draw a 500x500 rectangle and locate it close to the circles by using move and rotate

commands as in the figure;

o Then using polar array command created the figures in the drawing as follows;

o Let’s draw a rectangular reception desk and seats by assuming the locations with the

given dimensions;

Reception Desk: Rectangle from (10700, 3800) to (11500, 7400)



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Copy and move two of the small rectangles from the top seat figures and put into

proper positions behind the reception desk.

o Switch to GREEN Layer for drawing two circular tree figures and writing text into the

drawing.

First draw two circles centred as (4800, 3000) and (7000, 3000) with R800.

Secondly, write the text as `RECEPTION` and `ENTRANCE` to the drawing by

using the Draw/Text/ Single Line Text command from the Toolbar.

Text Height: 20

Rotation angle:0



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o Switch to Wall-Red Layer and Hatch the wall with regarding to following style:

WALLS HATCH STYLE

ANSI 36

angle: 0

scale: 5

Switch to Stairs-Grey Layer and Hatch rectangular figures with the following style:

STAIRS HATCH STYLE:

HEX

angle: 45

scale: 5



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o Next step is to give dimensions on the drawing by switching to Blue-Dimensions

Layer. For the dimensions please use the following settings:

Set scale from Dimension/Dimension Style/Modify/Fit/Scale for Dimension Feat.: 7

Set the text height: 3



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o Finally, in order to reach the same appearance on the drawing, you need to follow

these steps:

Click on the `Copy` command,

Select objects: Select all the objects and then press enter

Specify Base Point or [Displacement]: Type D and then press enter

Specify Displacement: @14000<0

Click on the `Mirror` command,

Select Objects: Select whole figure on the right hand, press enter

Specify first point of mirror line: Select the bottom right corner of the wall

Specify second point of mirror line: Select the top right corner of the wall

Erase source objects: Type `Y` and then enter, now you have the following:



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Click on the `Move` command,

Select Objects: Select whole figure on the right hand, press enter

Specify Base Point or [Displacement]: Type D and then press enter

Specify Displacement: @10000<180

Then Zoom/ all and you will have the final figure, In order to check the reliability give

dimension for the distance between the two figures (It should be 4000).

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