Autocad 2009 3d house tutorial

Once you have them just as you desire, you can lock them down by selecting the lock in the lower right corner of the drawing editor. You can also use the down arrow to the right of the Output tab to cycle through the minimizing options.

Feel free to minimize the ribbon to suit your preference. By default you might notice that the familiar menu bar has disappeared from the screen.

No problem — you can bring it back by right-clicking on the Quick Access toolbar and selecting Show Menu Bar from the shortcut menu. You might find this handy while you are adjusting to the new ribbon especially if you need to get a project out the door quickly. You'll find that some functions automatically change the ribbon for you, such as mtext or while editing a table. Though this is a behavior change by AutoCAD, please do give it a try.

I must admit I was a Dashboard fan, and I am sad to see it leave us. You can undock the new ribbon and position it vertically on your screen for dashboard-like behavior, but it doesn't have the powerful roll-up capabilities that the Dashboard had.

The Quick Access toolbar that lies across the upper left corner of the drawing editor is also new. Here you'll find popular standard commands such as Open, New, Undo, Redo, and more.

You can easily add your favorite commands by selecting Customize Quick Access Toolbar from the shortcut menu and dragging the commands of choice to the toolbar. In the upper left corner of the Drawing Editor, you'll find the great big red A that accesses the Menu Browser.

Here you'll also find the familiar AutoCAD menu in a vertical fashion. The Menu Browser also displays a robust listing of your recently used documents.

Here you can choose to display icons or images. You can also choose to list your documents by type or date. The latter option makes it easy to find a drawing file you were in last Tuesday, for example, but you can't remember the name. The Menu Browser can also store as many as 50 recently used documents as long as you give it such a number in the Options dialog box.

Sadly, the menu browser defaults to the standard value of nine, which is too low. This video teaches you the procedure to create 3D windows. The various elements of a window such as window frame , shutter , glass etc. Create 3D Ventilators. Creating Foundation , Steps , Floor and Car porch. Creating 3D Sloped Roof with Gable. Create Plastering grooves on the wall. Create a Path way make a perspective view. Once you complete all the lessons you will be in a position to perform Architectural modelling using AutoCAD.

You can also reuse all the objects such as door , windows , ventilator etc in your future projects. You can turn off the UCS and compass options not sure why you'd want to. And if you want to set up your own custom view, you'll need to turn off the Snap to Closest View option while dragging.

You can revert back to legacy 3dorbit behavior by turning off the Keep Scene Upright option. Some of you remember the original 3dorbit command had a tendency to leave us underneath the model very confusing. I suggest this only for those true viewing experts! So give the new ViewCube a try, especially if you think you'll use other Autodesk products.

Once you become proficient with the ViewCube, you'll be able to easily view your designs in any of the Autodesk products! As for me, I like the ViewCube because it is simple and visual — and that's a good combination! Until next month, happy AutoCADing! We have detected that you are using an Ad Blocker and kindly ask you to consider placing Cadalyst. Ads help support our ability to provide you all our articles and papers at no cost to you. Thank you for your consideration and support.

If you use more than one Autodesk product, you may have wondered if they were developed in two different galaxies! In many cases, one Autodesk product might look and act completely different from another, even though the same company created it. Autodesk recognizes this fact and is working diligently to correct it.

If you take the time to familiarize yourself with the ViewCube, technically you should be able to load up any Autodesk product and quickly view designs in 3D. Viewing is integral to all design applications, so this feature is certainly a step in the right direction.

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