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Okay, so here we are in this first proper lesson with our new installation of AutoCAD Open.

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And we're just going to look at some basics here.

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This is just a very brief overview of the software.

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Again, I don't want to go into body with too much detail.

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You don't need at the moment or you won't understand.

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So we're just going to have a quick look of what we're presented with when we first open a new installation

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of the software now.

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Well, if you are using someone else's software, or maybe it might be an installation that's been installed

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in the workplace or something you've had on your computer for a while and you've kind of been messing

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about with your screen may look a bit different here.

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This is most of the default settings from a new installation with just a few drawings I've had open

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here, and if this list on yours will be completely different.

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It's just your recent drawings.

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You've worked on recent documents, so it may have other things you've worked on, things someone else

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has worked on, or it may be completely empty if you've just installed it.

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Okay, so don't worry about that.

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Other than that, you should see pretty much a similar thing with same screen.

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And the first thing we're going to do is we're going to start a new drawing.

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Okay, So that's up here.

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The top left, you will see this kind of sheet icon here.

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We're going to click that and that's just to start a new drawing.

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Okay.

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So here we go.

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And with AutoCAD, when you start a new document, it comes preloaded with different settings depending

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on what it thinks you're going to do.

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So rather than just start from the beginning all the time, you start with a template and it's just

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a blank drawing that already contains some just just some basic settings in the background.

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And that's why when you say new drawing, it will ask which template you want to use.

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There's different things depending on what you're doing and you can save your own templates.

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We're going to have a course all on CAD management, which we'll go into that, but that's way advanced

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for now.

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All you need to do for now is select the one that just says a cad.

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W.T. Okay, and open that and this will present you with a new drawing.

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Now, you may or may not have this panel on the left hand side.

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Okay, We'll we'll look at that later.

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But you should have now a blank screen.

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You may not have this.

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Also, we're going to look at all that on how to get your setup the same as mine.

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Okay.

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So let me just close that.

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Okay.

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So just in case you didn't have that, I've turned those off.

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And this is a completely blank screen.

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Okay.

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I recommend having this little view thing on and you can do that under your options.

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We're going to look at the options in a minute.

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Okay?

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But first of all, while we've got this blank screen, I'll just go through the basics here with you.

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So at the top, you've got your these are these are kind of standard commands you have in in various

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software, things like new open, save, save as print.

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And we've got some mobile options I wouldn't worry about at the moment, but that's kind of a basic

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what used to be the kind of file and file menus.

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So it's just you saves your opens, that kind of thing.

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I won't worry about that.

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This is you can actually select what comes up here.

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Okay.

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But you won't as a beginner, you won't know what most of these are.

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How it loads with the default installation is quite good and I'll just leave it as it is.

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Okay.

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Then you've got these boxes underneath.

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Now, if you can't see these, you have various options of how they are shown.

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Okay, so if yours looks anything like that, you just need to go through that button and I recommend

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having it in this layout.

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Okay.

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To follow along with course.

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And these are basically your main tool panels.

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So in AutoCAD we work with panels and we work with file menus.

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So along the top.

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You'll have all these kind of things.

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It's going to look very complicated and maybe a bit intimidating at first.

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Just don't worry about it.

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Just ignore all them for now.

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We don't need them.

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We're going to use these as we go and it's going to be much more intuitive that way.

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But basically you've got the main tools under this home menu which are draw, modify, annotation blocks,

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etcetera.

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Okay.

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Again, we're going to look at all that as we go.

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And then you've got your main blank area.

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This is kind of your drawing space.

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So if you imagine your drawing board, this is where you would actually draw.

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So this is your area you can use, Okay.

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And what I'm going to do, I'm going to set that up with those options we talked about.

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So if you go up to this big red A in the top left and click that, you'll see down here you have a box

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options.

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I mean, under options.

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We have these various tabs here.

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Okay.

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So I want you to go to user preferences and there's one right click customization, and then I want

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you to.

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Check these boxes.

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So it looks like my screen.

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So the top ones repeat last command.

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Middle one is shortcut menu and bottom one is enter.

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Okay.

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If you if you select them that way, you're going to be able to follow along.

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If not, your mouse isn't going to perform the same way as mine and it's just going to complicate things.

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You're not going to understand what I'm doing when I'm clicking.

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So if you just for the purpose of this course, if you're not already, select them like this, I recommend

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you get used to using it this way.

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This is how most people in the workplace use them.

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This is a really fast way of working.

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Okay, so apply that and then we're going to go under 3D modeling under this tab.

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And down here you've got display tools in viewport.

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Make sure all these are ticked and that one.

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Okay.

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And apply that and that will bring up this view thing there.

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Okay.

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It might have already been ticked.

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Don't worry about it.

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And that's it.

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And that's all we need to know for now, really.

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In the next chapter, we're going to look at a bit more about zooming and panning around and using the

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mouse, etcetera.

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But your card now should look same as mine and you'll be able to follow along in the course.