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Cad Interview Questions

hese are for AutoCAD Interview Questions:

What are the differences between Dtext and Mtext. What is a ctb file?

Which Autocad Layer never plots whether it is turned off or on?

What are the differences between associative hatching and non-associativehatching?

If you wanted to select a line and there were other lines on top of it how would

you select it?

What is the difference between the divide command and the measure command?

If you wanted to increase the length of a line by 20mm how would you do it.

What does the system variable FILEDIA do?

What is Orthomode.

What is the difference between a crossing polygon and a window polygon. What is a mnu file? What is the difference between Attached and Overlayed Xrefs, and when would

you use each?

What should you be aware of when doing hatching in a drawing that contains an

xref?

What do you need to be aware of when using Perpendicular as a running Osnap?

Explain what happens when you Wblock items and choose a base point rather

than typing 0, 0, 0.

What is the difference between grid and snap?

What is the difference between a window and crossing selection box?

How do you deselect an object? What is a base point?

How do you find the length of a line?

How do you find the x, y coordinates of the center of a circle?

When inserting a block with the insert command, what parameters can bespecified?

What are some of the advantages of using blocks?

How can you insert one drawing into another?

What are the differences between aligned and linear dimensions?

How do you move a dimension farther away from an object?

What is the difference between snap and osnap? When would you use snap?

What is the difference between freezes and off? What is ortho?

What is polar?

What command creates parallel copies of an object?What are thedefinitions of the following abbreviations:

1. A2. Ar

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3. C

4. Co

5. E6. F

7. L

8. La9. Lt

10. M

11. Mi12. Ms

13. O

14. Os

15. Pe16. Pl

17. Ps

18. R

19. Re20. Ro

21. Z22. UCS

What is shown in the properties box when a line is selected? When a dimension is

selected?

What does the boundary command do?

What is the main difference to consider when using a spline versus a curved

polyline?

What is an xref?

What happens when you hold the shift key in the extend command? What does a layer filter do?

What do layer states do?

What does ^C^C in a toolbar macro do?

When should you write (or purchase) a macro, script, or LISP routine?

What is the difference between 2D and 3D in AutoCAD?

When should you use 2D in civil engineering projects?

When should you use 3D in civil engineering projects?

What angle would AutoCAD say the hour hand is on at 1:30 on a clock?

What does this tool button do?

In the line command, how do you tell AutoCAD that you have finished drawing

the line segment and want to exit the command?

In the copy object command, when do you tell AutoCAD that you want to paste

multiple copies? What is the difference between the scale and stretch commands?

What is a layer?

What is a block?

What is the difference between redraw and regen?

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What do you do to get the linetype scale to look the same in model space and

layout viewports?

How do you make a solid filled circle?

How do you use to make a line on layer 1 with a continuous line and red color

have the same properties as a line on Layer 3 with a dashed line and blue color?

What happens when you double click a hatch pattern? (Assumed the layer isnot locked.)