Add and adjust the location of a conference room door in an AutoCAD project. This guide takes you through the step-by-step process of inserting the door and manipulating its placement for optimal visual appeal in prints.
Key Insights
- The 'insert' command enables you to add the conference room door to your AutoCAD project. This can be found under the current drawing tab typically in alphabetical order.
- Placement is key in AutoCAD drawings for elements to print nicely on the page. It is advisable to have some exaggerated separation between elements, often moving them two or three inches away from other objects.
- The conference room door can be adjusted and moved to show its functionality. You can use the 'move' command, and adjust its position even up to 12 inches to illustrate a sliding action.
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Now let's add the conference room door. Let's type the command insert, enter. That brings up our blocks.
We want to switch our block view over to the current drawing tab and look for conference room door. It's already part of this project. It's usually in alphabetical order.
We're looking for the Cs and then conference room door. Click that conference room door block and then move our cursor out into our view. And there it is.
I want to place it at the top side of this opening and I will click to snap it right next to the wall. Click and there it is. Now that might be fairly accurate as far as the location of the conference room door, but I find in AutoCAD drawings, we typically want to have some exaggerated separation between elements so that they print nicely on the page.
So let's go ahead and we can close our insert window if it's open. Select the conference room door and move it. I'm going to hit the M for move, turn on my ortho mode, click and move it away.
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Now how far on a quarter inch plan, I usually like to move things kind of two or three inches away from other objects. So let's go ahead and do two inches, enter. And then we can show this conference room door in action if we'd like.
We can move it a bit to show that it moves back and forth. Maybe we'll move it up. Oh, let's do like 12 inches.
And there we go. Now our conference room has a sliding glass door.
