STUDY ON DRAFTING SOFTWARE – AUTOCAD AND EXERCISES
EXERCISE 1: STUDY ON DRAFTING SOFTWARE – AUTOCAD INTRODUCTION AutoCAD is a commercial computer-aided design and drafting software application. Developed and marketed by Autodesk, AutoCAD was first released in December 1982 as a desktop app running on microcomputers with internal graphics controllers. FILE FORMATS AutoCAD's file formats are denoted either by a .dwg , .dwt , .dws , or .dxf filename extension . The primary file format for 2D and 3D drawing files created with AutoCAD is .dwg . While other third-party CAD software applications can create .dwg files, AutoCAD uniquely creates RealDWG files. Using AutoCAD, any .dwg file may be saved to a derivative format. These derivative formats include: · Drawing Template Files .dwt : New .dwg are created from a .dwt file. Although the default template file is a...
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