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10 | Chapter 2 Make the Transition from Paper to CAD
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 draw-
ing 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, cir-
cles, curves, and more.
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.
You can save drafting time by drawing one
half of an item and then mirroring it to create
the other half.