Thursday, June 4, 2015

AutoCAD Basic Tutorial: Preparing the Drawing Space

There are two types of drawing spaces you can use in AutoCAD. The first one is the model space and the other one is the paper space. Model space is basically provided to draw AutoCAD 3D model while the paper space is used to draw 2D drawings. However, some drafters use model space to create those two types of drawing maybe because all drawings are laid on a single layout so that they are easy to be found. Or maybe those drafters do not know what the paper space is and how to draw on it (I do have some drafter friends who really have no ideas about what the paper space is).

In this section, you are introduced to these types of drawing spaces. In the video below you can watch what the really usage of the model space is.


On video below, you can examine how to set up a paper space. In the next section you can find out how to arrange the scale on the paper space, and use the scale to scale your drawings on the model space.


I hope you find these tutorial helpful. You can leave a comment if you think there are some improvements that could be made. Thanks.