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AutoCAD 14 in Easy Steps
AutoCAD 14 in easy steps doesn't get bogged down in all technical details, but concentrates on taking the reader gently through the essential features of this complex program. The book begins with starting AutoCAD 14 and proceeds to assist in drawing and editing pictures and saving to the Internet, in less than 200 pages! Other areas covered include:
Starting new drawings, basic drawing techniques, drawing tools, drawing commands, editing commands, linetypes, layers, dimensioning a drawing, 3D drawings, blocks, xrefs, attributes, customising menus, AutoCAD and the Internet and attaching/detaching the URLs.
1 Fundamental Concepts Traditional Draughting Techniques
AutoCAD 14 Draughting Techniques
Starting and Finishing AutoCAD 14
'Create New Drawing' Dialogue Box
The Drawing Units
The Electronic Paper Size
Saving a Drawing for the First Time
AutoCAD 14's Drawing Screen
Giving Commands to AutoCAD 14
Opening an existing drawing
2 Basic Drawing Techniques Drawing a Line
What to do if you Make a Mistake
Drawing a Circle
Moving an Entity
Using Grid and Snap
Drawing Aids
Snapping to Objects - the Toolbar
Snapping to Objects - an Example
Running Object Snap Tools
3 Accuracy and Speed Opening an Existing Drawing
Using Co-ordinate Input
Co-ordinate Input - Examples
Using Zoom and Pan
Aerial View
The Purge Command
How to Select Objects
Grips - the Little Blue Boxes
How to Use the Grips
System Variables
4 Advanced Drawing Commands Ray
Construction Line or Xline
Polylines
Polyline Shapes
Rectangles
3D Polyline and Rectangle
Donuts
Splines
Ellipses
Arcs
How to draw a door arc
Multilines
Editing Multilines
Examples of Multiline editing
Creating Multiline Styles
Modifying Multiline properties
A library of Multiline styles
Polygons
5 Isometric Drawing Isometric Drawing
Setting up the Isometric Mode
An Isometric Shape
Drawing an Isocircle
Isometric Drawing and Viewports
Saving and Restoring Tiled Viewports
Text on Isometric Drawings
6 Pseudo-3D Drawing - the Z Dimension Not really 2D Drawing!
Thickness - the Z dimension
Using Hide
Using Drawing and Editing Commands
Elevation and Thickness
Thickness Limitations
7 Text and Units Using Single Line Text
Paragraph Text
Multiline Text Editor Options
The Spell Checker
8 Editing Text Text Size and Plotting/Printing
Controlling the Drawing Units
Editing Techniques
Offset
Rotate
Stretch
Lengthen
Trim
Extend
Chamfer
9 Working with Layers Layers
Setting up a New Layer
Assigning a Colour to a Layer
Making a Layer Current
Making Layers Visible or Invisible
Linetypes
How to Load a Linetype
Linetypes - By Layer
Linetypes by Object
Moving Objects to a Different Layer
Scaling Linetypes - Ltscale
10 Blocks and Xrefs What is a Block?
Blocks and Layers
How to Make a Block
How to Insert a Block
How to Use a Block in any Drawing
External References - Xrefs
How to Use Xrefs
The Value of Xrefs
Working with Xrefs
11 Dimensioning Dimensioning
The Dimensioning Toolbar
Linear Dimensioning
Object Snap and Dimensioning
Aligned Dimensioning
Center Mark
Radius and Diameter
Continue Dimensioning
Baseline Dimensioning
Angular Dimensioning
Editing a Dimension
The DIMEDIT Command
12 3D Drawing - an Introduction The Coordinate Plane
A Closer Look at the WCS Icon
The UCSICON Command
Other Orientations of the UCS
Drawing your own Axes
The X-Y Plane and the Origin
Moving the UCS up the Z axis
Naming a UCS
Returning to the World System
Returning to a Named UCS
Rotating the UCS around the X Axis
Rotating the UCS around the Y Axis
Looking at a UCS from Behind
Using the Viewports
Editing Objects on a UCS
Using 3 Points to Define a UCS
The UCS Command Options
13 Wireframe Construction The Finished Wireframe Model
Laying the Base
Constructing the Wireframe
Using Layers
Placing Text on a Plane
Using Vports whilst Setting
up a UCS
14 3D Faces What is a 3D Face?
Placing 3D Faces on the Wireframe
Visible 3D Face Edges
Using Invisible Edges
Drawing a Window
Making Edges Visible/Invisible
15 Rendering Z-buffer Shaded Modelling
Letting the Sun Shine
Selecting Textures for 3D Faces
Assigning Materials to an Object
16 Internet Utilities The Internet from within AutoCAD 14
Internet Utilities Toolbar
The WHIP! Plug-in
Viewing a Drawing with WHIP!
The WHIP! in Action
Creating a .dwf File
Details of a .dwf File
Placing .dwf files on the Internet
Attaching a URL
Other URL Options
Index
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