P


Page Setup dialog box

plot styles, 367

shaded views, 355

Page Setup Manager dialog box

plot style tables, 362

printer settings, 358–359, 359

Paint Bucket tools, 86

palette view, DesignCenter, 252, 253

Pan Realtime tool, 23

panning and Pan command, 23–24

accuracy of, 26

locking viewport views from, 347–348

panoramic views, 169

PANTONE color option, 208

paper

printable area of, 27

size, 353

for printing, 342–343, 343

selecting, 353

user-defined, 353

Paper option, 341, 341

paper space

dimensions in, 295

layers in, 341, 341

viewports in, 341

Paper Space option, 211, 211

paragraphs, indenting, 268

parallel lines

construction, 106–107

drawing, 8283, 82

Parallel option, 62

Parallel Projection tool, 173

parallel projections, 173, 173

Parallelism tolerance symbol, 309

parentheses () in formulas, 284

Paste Special dialog box, 273, 286, 286

Path option, 178

paths, extruding along, 178–179, 179

patterns

gradients, 98–99

hatch. See hatch patterns

Pe command, 80, 147

Pedit command, 80, 147–148

Pen # option, 365

Perpendicular option, 62

Perpendicularity tolerance symbol, 309

Perspective Projection tool, 173, 173

perspective projections, parallel projections from, 173, 173

perspective view, 4

PHANTOM linetypes, 224

Pick Both Offsets option, 139

Pick Column Offset option, 139

Pick Point option, 234

Pick Row Offset option, 139

pl command, 80

Place Text Manually option, 319

Planar mapping style, 190, 191

Planar Mapping tool, 189

plines. See polylines and Polyline option

Plot And Publish tab, 354, 362

Plot dialog box, 351

paper size and orientation, 342–344, 343

printer settings, 359, 359

shaded views, 355

Plot In Background option, 356

Plot Object Lineweights option, 356

Plot Offset (Origin Set To Printable Area) group, 354

Plot or Page Setup dialog box, 360–361, 361

Plot Paperspace Last option, 356

Plot Stamp dialog box, 357, 357

Plot Stamp On option, 357

Plot Style Control list, 367, 368

Plot Style option, 367

Plot Style property, 123

Plot Style Table Editor dialog box, 363–366, 364

Plot Style Table list, 343, 343

Plot Style Table Settings dialog box, 362

plot styles and plot style tables, 230, 359–360, 360

assigning

to layers, 368, 368–369

to objects, 366–367, 367

color vs. named, 362

creating, 362–363

editing and using, 363–366, 364, 366

named from color, 369

predefined, 360–361, 361

Plot Upside-Down option, 358

Plot With Plot Styles option, 356

Plotter Calibration option, 353

Plotter Configuration Editor dialog box, 351–353, 352

plus signs (+) in formulas, 284

Point Filters option, 62

point lights, 191

point of view, 168–173, 169–173

Point Selection cursor, 51

Point Selection mode, 38

Point Style dialog box, 102

points

construction lines through, 104

coordinates of, 34, 329

as markers, 102

marking, 102, 102

tracking, 67–68

pol command, 100

Polar Angle settings, 52

Polar Angle Measurement setting, 52

Polar Array option, 137, 137

polar coordinates, 28, 35, 35, 38–39, 39

polar tracking, 38, 51

adjustable triangles with, 49–50

behavior of, 50–52, 50

with osnaps, 67

for relative coordinates, 41

Polar Tracking tab, 50–52, 50

polar tracking Vector, 28

Polygon tool, 100

polygons, 72, 73

area, 326, 326

drawing, 100–101, 101

Polyline command, 80

polyline splines, 73, 73

Polyline tool, 73

polylines and Polyline option, 72, 73

for Chamfer, 131

for curves, 80–81, 80–81

editing, 147–149

exploding, 147

extruding, 174–176, 174–176

for Fillet, 129

for outlines, 327–328, 327

revolving, 185, 185

portrait orientation, 343, 358

Ports tab, 352

Position tolerance symbol, 309

PostScript fonts, 264

Precision option

angles, 302

dimensions, 320–321, 323

drawing units, 46

predefined hatch patterns, 87–88, 88

predefined plot styles, 360–361, 361

Prefix option, 320, 322

prefixes for dimensions, 310, 320, 322

preview icons, 253

Preview panel, 254

Previous option

Modify menu, 127

Pedit, 149

Zoom, 24

Primary Units tab

architectural drawings, 318

dimensions, 310, 320, 320

primitives, 152, 152

printable area, 27, 354

printing, 339

3D views, 355–356

hidden lines and shading, 348

locking layers from, 212

paper size and orientation, 342–343, 343

plot options, 356357

plot styles. See plot styles and plot style tables

positioning, 354

printer settings, 351–353

saving settings, 358–359, 359

scaling, 345, 345, 354–355

setting up, 340, 340

viewports for, 341–342, 345–350, 346–350

views for, 353–354

Procedures tab, 29

Profile tolerance symbol, 309

Project option, 134

Prompts, 51

properties

cameras, 172, 172–173

filtering layers by, 214–216, 215–216

Properties palette, 7, 7, 122–124, 122–123

blocks, 238, 238

cameras, 173, 173–174

cell text, 281–282, 282

layers, 205–206, 205

line weights, 230, 230

Properties Settings dialog box, 99

Properties toolbar, 17

Purge command, 236




Introducing AutoCAD 2008
Introducing AutoCAD 2008
ISBN: 0470121505
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2007
Pages: 147
Authors: George Omura

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