Autocad Interview Questions

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Autocad Interview Questions

  1. What is AutoCAD?
  2. What is the difference between the divide command and the measure command?
  3. Which AutoCAD Layer never plots whether it is turned off or on?
  4. What is the difference between 2D and 3D in AutoCAD?
  5. What do you do to get the line type scale to look the same in model space and layout iewports?
  6. What do layer states do?
  7. When should you write (or purchase) a macro, script, or LISP routine?
  8. What are the differences between aligned and linear dimensions?
  9. What is ortho?
  10. What angle would AutoCAD say the hour hand is on at 1:30 on a clock?
  11. If you wanted to increase the length of a line by 20mm how would you do it.
  12. What does the boundary command do?
  13. In the copy object command, when do you tell AutoCAD that you want to paste multiple opies?
  14. When should you use 3D in civil engineering projects?
  15. How do you move a dimension farther away from an object?
  16. How do you make a solid filled circle?
  17. What should you be aware of when doing hatching in a drawing that contains an xref?
  18. What are the differences between Dtext and Mtext?
  19. To reverse the UNDO command the correct entry is?
  20. What does ^C^C in a toolbar macro do?
  21. If you wanted to select a line and there were other lines on top of it how would you select it?
  22. What is a ctb file?
  23. The special character string that causes text to be underlined is?
  24. What is the difference between redraw and regen?
  25. What are the differences between associative hatching and non-associative hatching?
  26. How do you deselect an object?
  27. What is the difference between Attached and Overlayed Xrefs, and when would you use each?
  28. How can you insert one drawing into another?
  29. Why does AutoCAD allow you more than one layout?
  30. What are some of the advantages of using blocks?
  31. The SETVAR command is used to?
  32. What is the significance of using the command WBLOCK?
  33. The command to scale a paper space view port to half the drawn size is?
  34. What is the difference between freezes and off?
  35. The special character string that is used to print the diameter sign is?
  36. What do you need to be aware of when using Perpendicular as a running Osnap?
  37. When is a space NOT interpreted as the enter key?
  38. The “select object” option “Previous” is best described by?
  39. What is a layer?
  40. When should you use 2D in civil engineering projects?
  41. What does the system variable FILEDIA do?
  42. What is the difference between a window and crossing selection box?
  43. What is a mnu file?
  44. The line types definitions are stored on the system with an extension of?
  45. What is the difference between the scale and stretch commands?
  46. What is a block?
  47. What is the difference between a crossing polygon and a window polygon?
  48. How do you find the x, y coordinates of the center of a circle?
  49. What is the difference between snap and osnap? When would you use snap?
  50. The effect of the EXPLODE command when applied to a block is to?
  51. What is the difference between grid and snap?
  52. The effect of QTEXT being ON is to?
  53. When inserting a block with the insert command, what parameters can be specified?
  54. The effect of freezing a layer is to?
  55. What happens when you hold the shift key in the extend command?
  56. What does a layer filter do?
  57. The command to scale a paper space view port drawn size is?
  58. What is a base point?
  59. What is polar?
  60. What is the main difference to consider when using a spline versus a curved polyline?
  61. Explain what happens when you W block items and choose a base point rather than typing 0, 0?
  62. What is Orthomode?
  63. How do you find the length of a line?