0 - 16 Bar pressure Gauge

[quizman]

I am new to AutoCad and I am using AutoCad 2009. Is there a tutorial or step by step method to create a 0 - 16 bar pressure gauge with major ticks at 1 bar intervals and minor ticks at 0.1 bar intervals. Also it will require a pointer at 0.1 bar intervals. I need to make 160 different images with the pointer moving 0.1 bar each time until it reaches 16 bar. I then need to save each individual drawing as a .jpg. This will then be used as an analogue graphic driven by 4 - 20 ma in a Graphic User Interface. Any help with this project would be much appreciated.

 

Regards

 

quizman

[dbroada]

I'm sure somebody will be along with a link to a tutorial soon so as I don't don't know where they are I won't. For now just experiment with the LINE, CIRCLE and MTEXT commands to get a feel for it. For "real" items you should ALWAYS draw at full size so you could get a gauge and measure & draw it then put the pointer where you want.

 

I would say its a shame you are using LT as moving the pointer and creating a print would be easy using LISP or VBA, neither of which are available to you.

 

All I can say is that what you are proposing is not difficult but will be VERY time consuming.

[ReMark]

Have you had any AutoCAD training what-so-ever? Even a basic course would cover most of what is required here to do the drawing.