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AutoCAD Tutorial # 1: Nidhi Vaid
Creating a Footprint Map of a Community Using an Aerial Photograph
GCUDV Seminar Series
AutoCAD Tutorial # 1
Creating a Footprint Map Using AutoCAD 2000 from an
Aerial Photograph
09/24/2004
Prepared by: Nidhi Vaid for Great Cities Urban Data Visualization Lab, UIC
Email: nvaid1@uic.eduAutoCAD Tutorial # 1: Nidhi Vaid
Creating a Footprint Map of a Community Using an Aerial Photograph
Introduction:
AutoCAD is the world’s most popular computer-aided drafting software
product for the personal computer available in both DOS and windows by
Autodesk, Inc. Anything that can be drawn on a drawing board can be drawn
by AutoCAD.
AutoCAD is an interactive drawing system designed to permit a user to
construct or edit a drawing on a graphics display screen. It is similar to other
word-processing programs except that in this case the thing being processed is a
drawing. Each drawing is stored on a disk file, and AutoCAD is only able to edit
one drawing at a time. An AutoCAD drawing is made up of entities. All the
objects in the drawing space are considered entities such as lines, arcs, circles,
text, and so on or blocks (which are groups of entities).
The entities are defined geometrically in terms of the normal Cartesian
coordinate system (right-handed system with positive X-axis to the right, positive
Y-axis up the screen and positive Z-axis coming out of the screen towards the
user). For example, lines are defined…