AutoCAD as a planner uses it: a scaled 2D layout or master plan, drawn over a georeferenced base, with plot areas that compute correctly and a sheet that plots at 1:1000 without argument. Not the mechanical-drafting or 3D-modelling AutoCAD that most tutorials teach.
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What you will be able to answer
You are handed a survey drawing and a satellite image for a 12-hectare site, and the layout plan is due as a PDF plotted at 1:1000 with a land-use breakdown. How do you get there?
The image scaled against a known distance on the survey and attached as an external reference, the layout drawn over it on separate layers at real-world units, and every plot closed as a single polyline so its area is computed rather than typed in. The area statement then comes out of the drawing itself, which is the check — if the plot areas do not sum to the site area, some boundary is not closed. Plotting at 1:1000 happens in paper space with the viewport set to that scale, not by scaling the geometry to fit a sheet.
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Course outline
Concept 1
Concept 1 · The drawing environment, and setting units before anything else
Concept 2
After: drawing-environment-and-units
Ortho with direct distance entry set against the polar coordinate method, on the same geometry.
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Concept 3
After: drawing-environment-and-units
A full layer suite built in one pass, each with its own colour, linetype and lineweight.
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Concept 4
After: precision-drawing
Trim and Extend in detail — cutting edges, select-all trim, and the Shift key that turns one into the other.
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Concept 5
After: draw-and-modify
Why separate line segments return no area at all, and the LIST command on a closed polyline that does.
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After: draw-and-modify
One block definition edited, and every inserted instance updating at once.
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Concept 7
After: layers, draw-and-modify
Annotative text matched to viewport scale, with height specified in paper units rather than model units.
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Concept 8
After: polylines-and-areas, layers
The gap tolerance setting that fixes boundary detection when a hatch refuses to fill.
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After: precision-drawing, layers
A satellite image scaled to real-world measurements using the SCALE command's Reference option.
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Concept 10
After: base-maps-and-xrefs
Survey coordinates and attributes concatenated in a spreadsheet so labels land at exact points.
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After: text-and-dimensions, layers
The arithmetic behind paper-space scaling, and Page Setup configured for a plot at a stated scale.
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After: polylines-and-areas, hatching, base-maps-and-xrefs, layouts-and-plotting
A residential plotting layout built end to end — road placement, plot sizes, numbering logic and the land-use summary table.
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