Speaker 1: In this video, you'll
take a look at the basic
drafting tools and the options
to control them. Please note
that the purpose of this video
is to act as an introduction to
the drawing tools and to show
that they are similar to other
systems that users may have come
across. For a more detailed
explanation. I would advise
coming on our Draft Sight
essentials training course, but
with that being said, let's get
started. You can either type in
commands or select it from the
ribbon. I will use the ribbon
and start with the simplest
element, the line. To start the
line. You can click anyway, you
choose, or you can type in a
coordinate to all type in zero
comma, zero. Start at the
origin, at present the line is
going in any direction at all.
If I only want to draw in the X
and Y directions, I can activate
the ortho mode in the status bar
with that selected, my lines can
only be vertical and horizontal
for more options. I could choose
polar tracking, which snaps the
lines to align with 15 degree
increments. You can change this
in the options. Should you wish?
I find 15 degrees worked the
best. So I want this line to be
a hundred mm long. So I'll just
drag my mouse over toward the
right there and type in the
length. Okay. And then we can
start to add in additional
segments. So I go up at
60 degrees here, one hundreds,
and I can continue in that
fashion, gradually drawing up
this initial shape. Okay. So
let's make that one a hundred
mil long then to close this loop
off. Well, if I look in the
command window, I can see the
options and I see that there was
a C for close. So if I type in
that letter enter that will
close the loop and it would
close the command as well. We
can also use existing points of
geometry for our lines as well.
So, so that we use entity snaps
allow us to snap onto various
different locations, like end
points, for example, or in this
instance, midpoints, let's just
click here. To that midpoint. Up
to the top there and back to the
start. Okay. So if you select
entities on the screen, you'll
see drag handles and you can use
those as well to manipulate your
drawing. So if I select those
two lines, you can grab that
handle there and stretch those
lines down to form an
equilateral triangle there. I'm
not going to demonstrate all of
the drafting tools here, or the
drawing tools, but I will show
one of the options for one of
the other commands, the circle.
So we click on the circle and
you can see the options there in
blue, down at the bottom. And I
can see that there was an option
for T T T. Okay. So I'm going to
go and select that.
And this asks me to pick three
objects. So I'll just select the
three lines here. And what it
will do is it'll create a circle
that was perfectly tangent with
all three of those particular
entities. Okay. So now we've
created some geometry. Okay. If
you look at the dropdown, by the
way, besides some of these
features, you will see some of
the options that are available
for the things that circles the
arcs the ellipses. So we have
some geometry. We know you need
to start modifying the most
obvious thing to try and do
here. It's trim. So I'll show
you the power trim tool and now,
unfortunately that's only
available in the higher levels
of job site. You can see this
gray line appears behind my
mouse essentially, wherever my
mouse passes through geometry,
that line segment or line is
removed. So it is a really quick
way to trim your sketches back
and also acts as an erase too as
well. I can end up with that
geometry. Okay. But if you don't
have those high levels of draft
site, we'll have to use the
standard trim tool. Okay. So
first of all, we'll have to take
our design back to where we were
before, and I'll just use the
standard trim. So we select trim
in the command line. We're asked
to select cutting edges. So what
edges will be used to act as
cutting edges to trim the other
lines back to. So if I hit enter
here, it will select everything
as a cutting edge And then I can
start selecting objects to
remove and clicking them
individually. Or I can drag
windows around the objects I
want to trim back. But note with
this, it will trim lines, but it
won't delete lines. So here I'm
left with two individual line
segments. So I'd have to delete
them as a separate command. So
having tided up our geometry, we
may want to do something else
with it. You might want to move
it or copy it or stretch it, but
do something like that. These
commands all work in the same
way. We select the command,
select what we want to change
and then carry out that change.
So let's start with the copy
command. So select the copy.
What do we want to copy? So I'm
going to copy the entire shape.
So again, we can go and select
things. Now, note, if I drag
from left to right, I get a blue
box and only items wholly within
that blue box are selected. You
can see them turning orange on
the screen. If instead we drag
from right to left anything, the
box touches gets selected. So
just be aware of which option
you're using, whether you're
going from left to right or from
right to left. So selected
everything there. I now have to
hit enter. Then it's saying,
where do I want to copy from and
to? So again,
I can use those entities snaps
or I could type in coordinates.
So I'm going to start my copying
from this point here. Let's just
copy it across into there. and
create a little bit of a
pattern, perhaps as we're going
across. Okay. So the copy
command just keeps copying
multiples until you feel you've
created enough. And it's just
put a final one perhaps over
there. So there, we have this, a
simple bit of geometry, and if I
select everything there and I
can look at the properties of
those items in the properties
panel over on the right-hand
side, I can see this 40 items
there of which five of them are
arcs. So what I can do here is I
can maybe select those arcs and
decide that perhaps I want to
highlight them in some way. So
I'm going to make that red. I
could also perhaps put things
onto a different layer. Should I
wished, so this is the end of
this, a little section, just as
a brief, as I say, brief
introduction to the drafting
tools within DraftSight, I'd
urge you to try and just draw
some simple shapes up
yourselves, test it, get to
familiarize yourself with the
different commands and, see how
you get on.