What does CAD orthogonal mode mean

Orthogonal mode, which controls whether the drawing is orthogonal. In orthogonal mode, it is convenient to draw a line segment parallel to the current x-axis or y-axis.

CAD orthogonal is to limit the drawing cursor to move only in the horizontal or vertical direction, so that the drawing of horizontal or vertical lines can be completed quickly. Without CAD orthogonality, it is almost impossible to draw vertical or horizontal lines by moving the cursor unless you do it by other means.

1. For example, when drawing a straight line, when the straight line reaches that point, the angle can be positioned casually. That is, the slash can be drawn casually.

2. If you click on the orthographic icon below, or press the F8 key. It is also possible to enter orthogonal mode.

3. Then you can only draw a straight line in the direction of 0,90,180,270 angles, and the effect is as follows:

You won't be able to draw any other angles! This is the orthogonal mode approach.

When we turn on the quadrature switch, usually no matter where you put the mouse, the straight line can only move in the horizontal and vertical direction, so at this time the straight line is drawn, when we turn off the quadrature switch, the straight line is directly extended to your mouse position, before 2 o'clock is horizontal or vertical, the drawing is a straight line, otherwise it is a diagonal line, so usually we want to draw a straight line when we turn on the orthogonal switch, And when you want to draw a slash, turn it off again and use it flexibly, as follows:

1.As shown in the figure below, press F8, the quadrature switch will be turned on, and the drawn line is a horizontal straight line.

2.As shown in the figure below, press F8 again, the quadrature switch will be turned off, and the drawn line will become a slash.

Use Orthogonal mode to limit the cursor's movement trajectory to horizontal or vertical directions. For example, with the default direction of 0 angle (the direction of 0 angle is the direction of the hour hand at "3 o'clock" or the direction of "due east"), when the "orthogonal" mode is turned on, the user can only draw a straight line in the four directions of 0 degrees, 90 degrees, 180 degrees, or 270 degrees. When drawing a line, whether the temporary path of the line is along the horizontal or vertical axis is determined by the distance of the cursor from the coordinate axis.

In engineering drawing, horizontal and vertical lines are often drawn, and the orthogonal function provided by MXCAD can be used to facilitate and accurately draw these two executions, especially the drawing of vertical lines and parallel lines, this way can show its advantages more, and the orthogonal mode can be turned on or off in the following ways.

That is, after you choose, you can only move to the x-axis or y-axis, which means that it must be a horizontal or vertical line.

Very handy tool that you can use with f8 to convert.

Right-click on the polar axis to select the setting, you can set the incremental angle of any angle, that is to say, you can draw an oblique line at any angle with the method of polar tracking. Whereas, orthogonal can only draw horizontal and vertical lines. Polar axis and orthogonality can only be turned on by one of the functions, and orthogonal is often used when drawing diagrams of user-shaped planes.

First of all, of course, we want to open the software, we will open the updated CAD2012, in the lower right corner of the interface, there is a gear-shaped icon, click to open the column, select "Custom";

2. In this way, we will open the customized interface, open "Workspace" in the collapse icon, and select "New Workspace";

3. Name the workspace, which can be set to the familiar "CAD classic";

4. Then select "Toolbar", the location is as shown below, and open its column;

5. Select the "CAD Classic" you just created under the column, and the right boundary surface will be opened;

6. Set up the toolbar: press and hold the more commonly used tools with the left mouse button and drag them to the box column on the right;

7. Similarly, set the menu bar;

8. In this way, we can select "Apply" to generate all the operations just now;

9. Finally, according to your preference, you can choose to set the "CAD classic" you just created as "set to current";

10. Generally speaking, the default menu bar is not opened, we need to open it first, and then apply it to OK;

11. It's done, the familiar CAD classic interface returns;

The difference between the orthogonal mode F8 on and off is that if it is turned on, the computer can ensure that the line you draw is horizontal or vertical (except for pinned snaps), and it doesn't matter what you want to draw after turning off orthogonality. Experience it for yourself.

The orthogonal shortcut key for CAD is F8, and the other shortcuts are as follows:

1. F1: Get help.

2. F2: Switch between the drawing window and the text window.

3. F3: Control whether to realize automatic object snapping.

4. F4: Digitizer control.

5. F5: Isometric plane cut Kailing change.

6. F6: Control the display of coordinates on the status line.

7. F7: Grid display mode control.

CAD orthogonal settings can be found at the bottom of the panel and can also be usedShortcutsf8Shortcuts

At the very bottom of the CAD, there is a row of buttons, one of which is orthogonal. Click this button, and the button will appear to be pressed, which is orthogonal; When you click the button, the button will revert to its original protrusion, and the orthogonal is off. When we turn on the orthographic mode, we can draw the graph in only two directions, horizontally or vertically.

CAD function keys.

F1: Get help.

f2: Switch between the drawing window and the text window.

f3: Controls whether to implement automatic object snapping.

F4: Digitizer control.

F5: Isometric plane switching.

f6: Controls how coordinates are displayed on the status line.

F7: Grid display mode control.

F8: Orthogonal mode control.

f9: Raster snap mode control.

f10: polar axis.

Mode control. F11: Object Tracking Mode Control.

This happens because there is no shortcut key.

The specific workaround is as follows:

1. Turn on the computer, enter the software, find and click Tools in the menu bar above.

2. After clicking, you will see the following screen, select the custom tomb option, and then click on the interface option.

3. In the interface, find the box in the upper left part of the custom item, there is a keyboard shortcut under all custom Wenmu wild pieces, and select Switch Orthogonal.

4. In the lower right corner of the Toggle Orthogonal Options page, click the Access button on the lower side, and click the icon in the red box shown in the image below.

5. After clicking, you will see the following screen, enter f8 here, and then click OK option.

6. After clicking, you will see the following screen, as shown in the figure below, click on the ruler Naiz option pointed by the arrow.

7. Delete the shortcut F8 and macro command 1 here, and that's it.

Here's how to close orthogonal with CAD:

Tools required: computer, CAD software (CAD2010 as an example).

1. First on the computer desktop.

find the CAD software and double-click the left button to open the CAD software.

2. From the figure, we can see that the CAD software at this time has turned on [Orthogonal Mode], and the orthogonal mode sometimes hinders the drawing, so you need to turn it off.

3. Right-click in the lower left corner [Shortcut draft is not.

bar], click Enable to turn off orthographic mode.

4. After closing, you can see that there is no more [orthogonal mode] when drawing, and you can proceed to the next step of drawing.

How to cancel orthogonally with CAD:

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Win10 Lenovo Y7000

1. Open the CAD to see the orthogonal opening, as shown in the figure below

2. Click the orthogonal limit cursor again, and click once to turn off orthogonality, as shown in the figure below

3. The orthogonal closure is successful, as shown in the following figure

Have you learned to lift the oak in the tomb, go and operate the test beam.

In the orthogonal open mode of CAD, only vertical or horizontal straight lines can be drawn;

In orthogonal off mode, you can draw straight lines at any angle. For details, please see the following step-by-step demonstration:

1. First open CAD and click on the straight line command. As shown in the image below, then proceed to the next step.

2. Secondly, turn on "Orthogonal" again. As shown in the image below, then proceed to the next step.

3. Then, after turning on orthogonality, you can see that only vertical and horizontal straight lines can be drawn. As shown in the image below, then proceed to the next step.

4. Then, turn off the orthogonality, and you can see that the orthogonal gate has been displayed. As shown in the image below, then proceed to the next step.

5. Finally, you can see that in orthogonal off mode, you can draw a straight line at any angle.

In the orthogonal mode in CAD, you can only draw vertical or horizontal straight lines, and when orthogonal is off, you can draw straight lines at any angle.

1. Open CAD and click on the straight line command.

2. Then turn on the orthogonal.

3. After opening the orthogonal, you can only draw vertical and horizontal straight lines.

4. Turn the orthogonal off.

5. You can draw a straight line at any angle.

On it automatically snaps vertically and horizontally.

You can also draw vertical and horizontal when it is off, but you need to open the polar axis.

Find the CAD custom user interface - keyboard shortcuts - temporary substitution keys: there are two "switch orthogonal mode" options inside, open the second option to switch between orthogonal mode and copy the content in macro 1 to macro 2

Basic Functions:

1. Plane drawing

A drawing aid that allows you to create basic graphical objects such as lines, circles, ellipses, polygonal spikes, splines, etc., in a variety of ways. AutoCAD provides drawing aids such as orthographic, object snap, polar tracking, snap tracking, and more.

The orthographic feature makes it easy to draw horizontal, vertical straight lines, object snaps help pick up special points on geometric objects, and the trace feature makes it easier to draw diagonal lines and locate points in different directions.

2. Graphics

AutoCAD has powerful features to move, copy, rotate, array, extrude, lengthen, trim, scale objects, and more.

Dimensioning. You can create a variety of dimensions, and the appearance of the annotation can be set by yourself.

Written words. Text can be easily written anywhere and in any direction of the graphic, and attributes such as text font, tilt angle and width scaling can be set.

Layer management features. Graphic objects are all located on a certain layer, and you can set the layer color, guess the line type, line width and other characteristics.

3. Three-dimensional drawing

3D solids and surface models can be created, and the solids themselves can be created.

Network Capabilities. Drawings can be published on the web or AutoCAD resources can be accessed over the web.

Data exchange. AutoCAD provides a variety of graphics and image data exchange formats and corresponding commands.

Secondary development. AutoCAD allows users to customize menus and toolbars, and can use the embedded languages Autolisp, Visual Lisp, VBA, ADS, ARX, etc. for secondary development.

The above content refers to Encyclopedia-AutoCAD

In CAD, switching orthographic mode can be done in several ways:

1.Command Line Input: Enter in the CAD command line"ortho"or"ortho on"command to turn orthogonal mode on or off.

2.Shortcuts: Shortcuts are often set in CAD to quickly switch between orthogonal modes, for example"f8"Key. Press under the messy branches"Wow Min f8"key to turn orthogonal mode on or off.

3.Status Bar: In the status bar of the CAD interface, there is one"Orthogonal"button, click to turn orthographic mode on or off.

4.Options Dialog: In CAD"option"dialog box, it can be found"Sketches"tab, where you set up"Enable orthogonal mode"option to control the enabling state of orthogonal mode.

The above are a few common ways to switch orthogonal modes in CAD, and you can choose the right one according to your personal habits and needs.