Beginning AutoCAD 2015. Cheryl R. Shrock

       AutoCAD 2015 System Requirements for 64-bit

Description	Requirement
Operating System	•Microsoft Windows 7® Enterprise•Microsoft Windows 7® Ultimate•Microsoft Windows 7® Professional•Microsoft Windows 7® Home Premium•Microsoft Windows 8/8.1®•Microsoft Windows 8/8.1® Pro•Microsoft Windows 8/8.1® Enterprise
Browser	Internet Explorer ® 9.0 or later
Processor	AMD Athlon™ 64 with SSE2 technology AMD Opteron™ with SSE2 technology Intel Xeon® with Intel EM64T support and SSE2 technology Intel Pentium® 4 with Intel EM64T support and SSE2 technology
Memory	2 GB RAM (8 GB Recommended)
Display Resolution	1024 x 768 (1600 x 1050 or higher recommended) with True Color
Disk Space	Installation 6.0 GB
Pointing Device	MS-Mouse Compliant
Media	Download and installation from DVD
.NET Framework	.NET Framework 4.5
Additional requirements for 3D modeling	8 GB RAM or more6 GB free hard disk available not including installation requirements1280 x 1024 True color video display adapter 128 or greater, Pixel Shader 3.0 or greater, Direct3D® capable workstation class graphics card

Customizing your Wheel Mouse

      A Wheel mouse has two or more buttons and a small wheel between the two topside buttons. The default functions for the two top buttons and the Wheel are as follows: Left Hand button is for input and can’t be reprogrammed. Right Hand button is for Enter or the shortcut menu. The Wheel may be used to Zoom and Pan or Zoom and display the Object Snap menu. You will learn more about this later.

      The following describes how to select the Wheel functions. After you understand the functions, you may choose to change the setting.

      To change the setting you must use the MBUTTONPAN variable.

       MBUTTONPAN setting 1: (Factory setting)

ZOOM	Rotate the wheel forward to zoom inRotate the wheel backward to zoom out
ZOOM EXTENTS	Double click the wheel to view entire drawing
PAN	Press the wheel and drag the mouse to move the drawing on the screen.

       MBUTTONPAN setting 0:

ZOOM	Rotate the wheel forward to zoom inRotate the wheel backward to zoom out
OBJECT SNAP	Object Snap menu will appear when you press the wheel

       To change the setting:

      1.Type: mbuttonpan <enter>

      2.Enter 0 or 1 <enter>

LESSON 1

      LEARNING OBJECTIVES

       After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

      1.Start AutoCAD program

      2.Understand AutoCAD Workspaces

      3.Recognize all of the features in the AutoCAD Window

STARTING AUTOCAD

      To Start AutoCAD use one of the 2 methods below. (Be patient it may take a few minutes to load. It is a large program)

      1.Select Start / All Programs / Autodesk / AutoCAD 2015 or Double click on the AutoCAD 2015 desktop shortcut icon

      2.The “New Tab” page should appear.

       Note: Your computer should be connected to the Internet.

      The New Tab page contains two sliding content pages called LEARN and CREATE.

      CREATE: The Create page (shown below) is displayed by default and allows you to start a New drawing, Open an existing drawing or template, Explore sample drawings, view Recent documents or access Online Services.

      You can start a new drawing using the default template by clicking on the Start Drawing tool, or you can access a list of available templates by clicking on the Templates down arrow.

      Note:The last template you use will become the new default template and is highlighted in the template dropdown list.

      Note:

      The drawing template acad.dwt is for imperial measurements.

      The drawing template acadiso.dwt is for metric measurements.

      Click on the Start Drawing tool to open the default template and to open the main AutoCAD drawing workspace.

      Note: If your screen does not appear as shown below go to the Intro section of this workbook and follow the steps for configuring AutoCAD to match the workbook configuration.

      The following pages will describe each area and element.

       I know you are anxious to start