AUTOCAD Tutorial (AUTOCAD 2016): AUTOCAD Tutorial for beginner to Advance - How to Turn ON/OFF Object Snap & Object Snap Tracking

AUTOCAD Tutorial (AUTOCAD 2016):  How to Turn ON/OFF Object Snap / Object Snap Tracking

In this AUTOCAD Tutorial, we are going to learn how use keyboard shortcut for enable/disable the Object Snap and Object Snap Tracking. In future tutorial, we are going to cover what are the Object Snaps in AUTOCAD and how to use them in the real project.






In your Autocad, Object snap and Object Snap Tracking are probably enabled as a default setting. These are located in your lower right corner and it looks like this:

Object Snap TrackingObject Snap

If the icons are showing as blue, it means that function is enabled. If it is showing as gray, it means disabled. 

DisabledEnabled

   For Object Snap, you can use your keyboard shortcut to enable/disable the function.

To Enable/Disable Object Snap in AutoCAD: F3

For Object Snap Tracking, you can use your keyboard shortcut to enable/disable the function.

To Enable/Disable Object Snap Tracking in AutoCAD: F11

AutoCAD 2016 Tutorial - Drawing Unit settings in AutoCAD

AutoCAD 2016 Tutorial 

How to change Unit settings in AutoCAD 2016

You can change the Units in AutoCAD. In the US, we normally use inches and feet but sometimes we have to work with centimeters and meters for international projects. I am going to show you how to change your units in AutoCAD and it's short-cut. 

Short-cut to open up the units preference box 

(Drawing Units box)

Type: u + n + enter (do not type +) 

Once you type u + n + enter, the Drawing Units box will be appear as shown (IMG 1).

IMG 1 (drawing units in AutoCAD)

In this unit settings, you can change your AutoCAD units into an Architectural (foot and inch system), Decimal (metric), Engineering (feet and inches but decimal), Fractional (inches only - cabinet makers), or Scientific.

For Architectural units, ( ' ) indicates foot and ( " ) indicates inches. You don't have to put ( ' ) or ( " ) in AutoCAD. The AutoCAD automatically indicate as inches when you put your numbers. For example, if you type in 14, the AutoCAD will indicate that number as 14 inches.