AutoCAD final vocab - Aktar's Autism Review - Chapter 2
A relative coordinate is indicated by placing the following symbol before your coordinate
@
The window and tab that you need to access in order to change the drawing area's color?
Options-Display
Circle all the ways that you can use to access AutoCAD's commands
Ribbon panels, Command window, Tool palettes, Application button search box
The shortcut menu is accessed by
Right clicking
A place that gives you quick access to commands that are frequently turned on and off
Status bar
Which coordinate system may be translated and rotated by the user to make drawing easier?
UCS
Which coordinate system is stationary and cannot be translated or rotated?
WCS
top quadrant
What is the rotation basepoint used in the example shown?
lower left corner
What is the scale basepoint used in the example shown?
Object snaps not only speed up the drawing process, you cannot draw________ without them unless you enter coordinates.
accurately
A polygon that is drawn on the outside of a circle is said to be....
circumscribed
Clicking, and dragging the mouse from right to left produces a ........
crossing window
What type of selection window selects everything touching and inside the defined window?
crossing window
Which printing option prints everything that you can currently see?
display
Object Snap panel: Top row, third icon from the left?
endpoint
Which printing option prints everything that has been drawn?
extents
Clicking once on an object, while not currently in a command, accesses the................
grip boxes
You know when an object is selected because it becomes.......
highlighted
clicking, holding and dragging the mouse produces a .....
lasso window
A relative coordinate is measured relative to the
last point entered
The command used to make a line longer by a prescribed length
lengthen
The command that is used to set your paper size
limits
Which printing option prints everything within you defined paper size?
limits
Object Snap panel: Second row, sixth icon from the left?
nearest
This icon, located in the status bar, allows you to create tracking lines off of object snap points.
object snap tracking
Which is the window and tab where you can access the Autosnap Marker size?
options-drafting
An absolute coordinate is measured relative to the
origin
You may access the object snap settings by right clicking on the Object Snap icon in the status bar, clicking on the arrow next to the icon, or by typing what command?
osnap
When AutoCAD is waiting for you to select an object, the crosshairs turn into a ...........
pickbox
This enables you to snap along angled track lines
polar tracking
What typed command allows you to change the polar tracking angle
polarang
Object Snap panel: Top row, ninth icon from the left?
quadrant
A circle may be defined by its CENTER and ...........(circle all that apply)
radius, diameter
An arc may be defined by its START, END, and .......(circle all that apply)
radius, direction, angle
After selecting several objects to erase, what command would you type if you wanted to remove an object(s) from the selection set?
remove
The grip box options may be accessed by________ on one of the boxes.
right clicking
Which printing option will expand/reduce your drawing to fit the paper?
scale to fit
What key do you need to hold down if you want to remove an object(s) from the current selection set?
shift
This key allows you to quickly repeat your last command
space bar
clicking and dragging the mouse from left to right produces a ..........
standard window
The system variable that determines whether the Select Template window or the Create New Drawing window appears when starting a new drawing.
startup
What is the typed command used to access text settings?
style
What key do you press to cycle through the dynamic input dimensions?
tab
The object snap that will not show where the first point of a line is located until the second point is selected.
tangent
When moving an object using relative coordinates, the first base point may be ______ (Circle all that apply)
the origin, a point on an object, the point that you are moving the object to, any point
What letters do you type to indicate that you want to create a temporary track point?
tt
The command that is used to select your unit of measure and precision
units
