2D AutoCAD Questions and Answers

AutoCAD Workspaces

• By default, AutoCAD has two workspaces: 2D Drafting & Annotation and 3D Modeling, as well as AutoCAD Classic.

Object Snap

• Press the Tab key to cycle through the available snap points.

AutoCAD Drawing Units

• Architectural, Engineering, and Decimal are all types of AutoCAD drawing units.
• Millimeter is not a type of AutoCAD drawing unit.

Object Snap Tracking

• Object snap tracking works in combination with object snaps to enable temporarily acquiring and tracking up to seven points.

Polar Tracking

• Two settings can be made for polar tracking: Increment angle and Additional angles.

Moving Objects

• To move an object, select a base point, followed by a point to define where the object is moving to.

Design Center

• The Design Center palette can be opened from the Standard toolbar.

Keyboard Shortcuts

• Press the F9 key to toggle Snap on/off.
• Press the Tab key to cycle through the available snap points.

Dragging

• Dragging means holding down the left-hand button of the mouse on an item and moving it to another point on screen.

Axis Accessibility

• In AutoCAD 2D Modelling, the Z axis is not accessible for drafting.

Breaking Polylines

• A Polyline can be broken into individual lines and arcs using the EXPLODE command.

Hot Grip Editing

• With a hot grip, the editing tasks that can be performed are Move and Offset.

Scrolling Mouse

• Scrolling the mouse can perform the following actions: Pan, Zoom in/out, and Rotate.

Workspaces

• The number of workspaces in AutoCAD is 3.

Command Plot and Print

• There is no difference between Command Plot and Print.

Gradient Fill

• An open area can be filled with a Tolerance gradient.

Table Shortcut

• The shortcut to start a table is TBL.

Zoom Command

• The shortcut to start the Zoom command is any of the following: Z, Rotate mouse wheel, or ZOOM Command.

Selecting Objects

• To select a set of objects in the workspace, draw a crossing window from right to left.

Multileader Shortcut

• The shortcut for Multileader in AutoCAD 2022 is MLEADER.

Zoom Window

• To bring a particular area of the workspace in focus, use the Zoom Window command.

Object Selection

• The various options from left to right and the opposite direction allow selecting objects according to their position.

Trim Command

• The shortcut for Trim command is TR.

Boolean Operations

• The Intersect Boolean operation is used to select the interfering region between solids.

Qselect Command

• The Qselect command allows selecting objects based on some status.

Scale List

• If you change the scale list of a project from 1:50 to 1:10, you will have to start over.