How to Draw Plan in Autocad 2010

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Inserting CAD Electric Symbols

into an AutoCAD Lighting Programme Tutorial Free AutoCAD Tutorial

This is a quick and unproblematic tutorial on placing lighting plan symbols in your AutoCAD drawings, and so allow'southward get started!

If you haven't used the Nearest osnap setting very frequently, this free CAD tutorial is a great place to use it. The Nearest osnap setting lets you identify a cake onto a object with a perfect connection, but let's you pick it'southward exact location. Nearest gives you the almost flexibility in accruately placing blocks where yous want them, non on some geometric point on an object.

First, set the Running Osnap to Nearest, for this task I uncheck all the other settings because they just go in the way. The quickest way to the Osnap settings is from your Condition bar at the bottom of your screen. Right-Click on Osnap, then select Settings.

AutoCAD Osnap Settings

Once y'all set up Nearest as your osnap it will only use that osnap, and information technology will be on all the time.

Let'southward say we want to place a single switch side by side to a door opening into a room. Go and detect your switch block to insert. I use Design Center to manage all my blocks. I have a block library specifically for lighting plans.

If you don't have a library for lighting symbols, don't describe them all from scratch, that is a massive waste of time! I accept a library that I sell, that is a great starter library for anybody needing lighting program symbols.

Below, I have located my electrical symbols in Pattern Heart. I can elevate and drop the symbol into my cartoon, or If I want to rotate the symbol onto a wall, I demand to double-click the symbol in Design Heart (equally shown below with the cherry arrow).

AutoCAD Design Center

Once you double-click with the left mouse button, yous go the Insert dialog box for inserting blocks into AutoCAD. The cake you selected is show in the preview. Select OK, and you will then be prompted for 2 things, insertion point, and rotation.

AutoCAD Insert Dialog Box

Once you choice OK, you lot are prompted for the insertion point. Elevate your switch symbol to the location on the wall next to the door. As your crosshairs touch the wall line you will come across the Nearest osnap marker appear (information technology is the hourglass effigy - see below). You can and so drag the symbol up and downwards the wall line to the location that you desire, then pick exactly where you want the symbol to attach to the wall. The Nearest osnap will make it a perfect connection.

Insert AutoCAD Switch CAD Block

Next, you are prompted for Rotation. This is where Nearest works actually well. Just drag your crosshairs forth the wall, and pick anywhere (as long equally the Nearest marker is showing). When you see your symbol rotated to where y'all want information technology, merely selection, and the symbol is placed perfectly onto your wall. ( the Nearest osnap really snaps onto the wall y'all are attaching the symbol to, and gives information technology a perfect 90 degree rotation to the wall).

Rotate AutoCAD CAD Block Switch

With Pattern Eye, and using the Osnap setting of Nearest, you can quickly, and accurately identify your lighting symbols in your drawings.

SPEED TIP: In one case you lot Insert a symbol and rotate information technology into position, if you need the same symbol with the aforementioned rotation in other rooms, it'southward faster to Re-create the symbol into the other rooms, than it is to Insert each new symbol i at a time.

Next lesson: drawing those perfect wiring arcs from your switches to the lighting fixtures every bit shown below.

AutoCAD Lighting Plan CAD Symbols