Creating a New Drawing and Project

AutoCAD Land Desktop Tutorial

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Creating a New Drawing and Project

In this exercise, you will start a new drawing and create a new project to store associated data.

  1. On the File menu, click New to display the New Drawing: Project Based dialog box.

  2. Enter Lesson_1 for the Name.

  3. In the Project and Drawing Location section, verify that Project Path list displays \Land Projects <Version Number>\, and then click Create Project to display the Project Details dialog box.

  4. In the Initial Settings for New Drawings section, from the Prototype list, select Default (Meters).

  5. In the Project Information section, enter Project_1 for the Name.

  6. Enter Project for Exploring Land Desktop Startup for the Description and Training for the Keywords.

  7. In the Drawing Path for this Project section, verify that Project "DWG" Folder is selected.

  8. Click OK to return to the New Drawing: Project Based dialog box.

  9. In the Select Drawing Template section, click Browse and browse to the Template folder under the location of the Land Desktop <Version Number> installation (by default c:\Program Files\AutoCAD Land Desktop <Version Number>\Template), and from the Template list, select aec_m.dwt.

  10. In the Project and Drawing Location section, verify that the Project Name list displays Project_1 and the Drawing Path list displays \Land Projects <Version Number>\ Project_1\dwg\.

  11. Click OK to create the new drawing and project.