Questions

  1. Describe one of two ways of starting AutoCAD.

  2. How do you display a toolbar that is not on the screen?

  3. How do you move a floating toolbar?

  4. How do you make a floating toolbar disappear?

  5. Briefly explain the basic function of the AutoCAD Command prompt line.

  6. Explain the purpose of the following AutoCAD commands:

    a) OPEN
    b) SAVE
    c) SAVEAS
    d) QSAVE
    e) QUIT

  7. On the lines that follow this illustration, write the names of items A through O.


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8. Define the following terms:

a) floating toolbars

b) docked

c) toolbars

d) cascading

e) pick button

f) units

g) area

h) menu bar

i) tool icons

 

Challenge Your Thinking:  Questions for Discussion

In the article " You're Expecting How Many"?

a) Why did the convention center establish a computer graphics department?

b) How has the application of AutoCAD helped the Pine Bluff Convention Center?

c) Besides floor plans, what else has been accomplished using the application of AutoCAD?

Last Updated January 11/01 ( D. Bell )