AutoCAD Basics
Recent documents can be organized in which two views?
Grid View or List View
What type of line starts at a selected point and continues to infinity?
A Ray
The top layer of a stack is called what?
CURRENT LAYER
A group of objects combined into one object is called what?
A BLOCK
Which key clears all items from a selection set?
ESC
The Ribbon is located at the top of the screen and contains what?
All the commands available within a workspace
Which tool is used to remove lines from the drawing that wouldn’t be visible on the real object
TRIM
What must users do before moving objects to a different layer?
Select the objects
Which tool breaks a block back into individual parts?
EXPLODE
Before deselecting an object, what symbol should users see when hovering over it?
Minus sign (-)
The UCS (User Coordinate System) icon shows what 2 important parts of the drawing file?
The origin and the X/Y axes
Which command will generate lines that have no width, cannot contain arc segments, and have line segments that are treated as individual objects?
LINE
Freezing a layer does what to the objects on that layer?
Removes them from memory during regeneration
Users can insert a block using an insertion point rather than coordinates by moving WHAT away from the Blocks palette?
The Cursor
When you copy and paste a drawing into a different file from the original file, WHAT will carry over?
LAYERS
What are the most 2 basic components of any AutoCAD drawing?
An object and entity
POLYLINES can be edited when? (2 answers)
While being created or after they are created
Why should users consider freezing layers?
To improve performance in large files
What 3 properties can be edited for a newly inserted block from the command line?
Basepoint, rotation, and scale
What key can users turn off Ortho mode?
F8
When users cancel a command, how can they invoke the last command used?
SPACEBAR
The Offset command is found on which panel?
MODIFY
The Inspect dialog box shows which three values about layers?
Layers in drawing, Layers selected, Entities on selected layers
What must be done before adding a block to a newly created palette?
SAVE THE FILE
What command can you type to select every object in a drawing at once?
ALL