Setting up Drawing Area

The lesson asks me set up drawing area of 5940cm X 4200, how do I do that? And it asks me to set Snap spacing to 1, can you help?

Drawing limits, grid, grid spacing, and Snap (not object snap). Use your F1 key to see how they work. Honestly I do not know why they keep insisting on teaching those commands/functionalities. They are completely obsolete and almost nobody but nobody uses them in the real world of AutoCad. I have never used them, so I don't feel comfortable telling you how they work or what they are for. I really don't know what their practical usage might be.

The great majority of regular users have their LIMITS set to OFF.

Just enter LIMITS at your commandline and hit ENTER,

then enter the dimensions requested, separated by a comma.

The first value entered will represent the width along the X axis, and the second will be the height along the Y axis.

It will assume an origin of (0,0).

In order to access the Drafting Settings dialog, just type DSETTINGS at the commandline and hit ENTER.

Totally agree with Dana

Thank you Dadgad for being helpful!

Hey, I'm not sayin' the OP should tell the prof to go pound sand, I'm just sayin' it's like teaching a truck driver the parts of a horse.

Also, using the Help index to search for Limits, Snap, and Grid would provide the OP with a near textbook refresher for the class material.

I've only encountered three people, two of whom were engineers, that actually used Grid and Snap in their drawings (piping and instrumentation schematics). I don't use either and haven't for a very long time.

Having your snap turned on and at a setting of 1 will cause your mouse movements to drive you mad. The cursor will continously try to snap.

what happens if your object is more than 5940 cm in size ?

BIGAL, do you really think that adding a mere 24,948,000 unnecessary snap points to the drawing is a bad thing?

Hell that isn't even twenty five million, how could that possibly hurt?

oh, right!

Your teacher is doing you students a great disservice by suggesting you do this.

This wouldn't happen to be a PennFoster course now, would it?

What kind of drawing are you doing? Is it an architectural floor plan? Maybe an electrical schematic? Laying out a chessboard for a Grandmaster?

The only reason I know of to know what Snap is (lets not confuse it with OSnap though) is so you know what to do when you encounter the Jumping Cursor Curse, and know where to shut it off.

Snap just speeds up the inevitable insanity caused by AutoCAD daily use.

Adding some typical measurements, just in case (in millimeters)

A0: 841x1189

A1: 594x841

A2: 420x594

A3: 297x420

A4: 210x297

That will be your first point X,Y = 0,0

...and measurements for example as above as second point.

What do you mean Penn Foster course?

What do you mean Penn Foster course?

Suurrrrvey says, that is the number one answer!

They offer online instruction which is consistently lacking in many regards,

such as teaching techniques which fell out of use 15 years ago, and

not addressing any of the improvements of this millenium.

Count your blessings.

Suurrrrvey says, that is the number one answer!

 

They offer online instruction which is consistently lacking in many regards,

such as teaching techniques which fell out of use 15 years ago, and

not addressing any of the improvements of this millenium.

Count your blessings.

I would agree, I graduated in 2011 from that course and can say that this forum and the people in it have taught me more about AutoCad then the "school" itself.