So the first thing we need to look at is at the top of the screen when you first startup AutoCAD 2010. What we're going to look at here is what's new in AutoCAD 2010 first of all just to get you familiar with some of the new features and tools that are available. Autodesk 3ds Max 2010 Documentation Set Autodesk 3ds Max 2010 Help: The online help covers fundamental conceptsWelcome to the AutoCAD 2010 Advanced Concepts Course. There you'll find general descriptions, detailed descriptions of all the controls, usage notes and tips, and procedures for accomplishing various tasks. To learn more about, look it up in the 3ds Max Help.
Now, what we're going to look at here as well is some of the new features that are available in AutoCAD 2010. Let's go back now to the Home Tab. As you can see, the commands are the same they're just in different places. So there's the Home Tab, there's the Insert Tab here at the top, the Annotate Tab. There's the Draw Panel, the Modify Panel, the Layers Panel and so on. You now have a Ribbon with panels as you can see.
When you click on the fly-out arrow there, you'll see that it looks very different from AutoCAD 2009 or if you've not seen it before, it looks very different all the same. In AutoCAD 2010 it's known as the Application Menu. In AutoCAD 2009 that was known as the Menu Browser and it replicated the menu pull-downs from older versions of AutoCAD.
That's at the top of the screen here in the Title Bar. I can also click here, Open Documents and you can see that I've got Drawing 1 open. If I go up to the top here, I can look at Recent Documents, which is the current list. I can Save as a Template File for example or a Standard File or just as a Drawing.
This is part of the Ribbon and as you can see there, there are regularly-used commands for things like Undo, Save, Plot. Just above the Ribbon we've got the Quick Access Toolbar. I'm just going to hit Escape to come out of that and what we'll look at now is the Ribbon again. So as you can see, lots of different settings available and commands available in the Application Menu.
You can convert dimensions into dimensional constraints for example. The Dimensional Constraints are based on distances. AutoCAD 2010 offers us Parametric Constraints now so if we look at Geometric here or Dimensional, these are constraints based on things like parallel or perpendicular. We have here the Parametric Tab. Let's have a look now at some of the new tabs available in AutoCAD 2010. I'm not going to do that right now.
I'm going to use the Parallel Geometric Constraint. So I'm going to use the Geometric Constraint here in the Geometric Panel and it's this one here Parallel. I want to make the angled line here always parallel with the horizontal line. I've got a horizontal line here and an angled line here.
If I click on the line down here near the right-hand end, it will pivot about the right-hand end of the line. Now, if I click at the left-hand end here of the angled line, it will pivot about the left-hand end of the line. So I select the first object that I'm going to make parallel to and then the second object is the object I'm going to make parallel.
Now, another tab that I really like is the Express Tools Tab. There's the Parallel Constraints. Notice as I hover over them now there's a little blue Constraint Symbol there by the crosshair but also the specific constraint highlights. You'll see that it pivots about this point here and makes this line here parallel with this line here.
I'm going to pick this arc here and as you can see now, the Arc Aligned Text Workshop appears. So let's click on Arc Aligned Text here, come into the drawing. They've been around for some time and one of my favorites is this one Arch Aligned on the Text Panel here on the Ribbon in the Express Tools Tab.
Now, you'll notice there, that text as you can see, because of the size of the text, it's overwriting itself. If I click on OK now it aligns the text there around the arc. I've selected a font there of Verdana. That's 10 millimeters because this is a metric millimeters drawing and the offset from the arc there is four millimeters.
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