AutoCAD 2018 and Inventor 2018 Tutorial By Tutorial Books (www.engbookspdf.com)

Part 1: AutoCAD Basics
Creating the Title Block on the
Layout
You can draw objects on layouts to create a title
block, borders and viewports. However, it is not
recommended to draw the actual drawing on
layouts. You can also create dimensions on layouts.
Example1:
Click the ISO A1 layout tab.
Set the Title Block layer as current.
Click the Rectangle button on the Draw
panel.
Pick a point at the lower right corner of the
layout.
Select the Dimensions option from the
command line.
Specify the length of the rectangle as 820
and width as 550.
Click in the upper area of the layout; a
rectangular border will be created.
Create a title block at the lower right corner,
as shown below.
Use the Create Block tool and convert it into
a block.
Use the Insert tool and insert it at the lower
right corner of the layout.
Save the drawing file as Viewports-
Example.dwg.
Working with Annotative
Dimensions
In AutoCAD, you create drawings at their actual
size. However, when you scale a drawing to fit
inside a viewport, the size of the dimensions will not
be scaled properly. For example, in the following
figure, the first viewport is scaled to 1:2 and the
second viewport is scaled to 1:1. The dimensions in
the first viewport appear much smaller.
Create attributes and place them inside the
title, as shown below.
You can fix this problem by applying the Annotative
property to dimensions.
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