AutoCAD 2004. One Step at a Time (Part 1)
- Table of Contents
- BackCover
- AutoCAD 2004 - One Step at a Time, Part I
- Section I: The Basics
- Lesson 1: The Setup
- 1.1 The Groundwork: How AutoCAD Handles Scale, Units, and Paper Size
- 1.2 Let s Get Started
- 1.3 Setting Up a New Drawing
- 1.4 Saving and Leaving a Drawing Session
- 1.5 Opening an Existing Drawing
- 1.6 Partial Open and Partial Load
- 1.7 Creating and Using Templates
- 1.8 Changing the Setup or Starting a New Drawing from Scratch
- 1.9 Extra Steps - The Active Assistant
- 1.10 What Have We Learned?
- 1.11 Exercises
- 1.12 Questions
- Lesson 2: Drawing Basics - Lines Coordinates
- 2.1 Lines and Rectangles
- 2.2 Fixing the Uh-Ohs: Erase, Undo, and RedoMRedo
- 2.3 Multiple-Object Selection Made Easy
- 2.4 The Cartesian Coordinate System
- 2.5 Extra Steps
- 2.6 What Have We Learned?
- 2.7 Exercises
- 2.8 Questions
- Lesson 3: Drawing Aides
- 3.1 The Simple Stuff: Ortho, Grid, Tracking, and Snap
- 3.2 And Now the Easy Way - DSettings
- 3.3 Never Miss the Point with OSNAPs
- 3.4 Running OSNAPs
- 3.5 Point Filters and Object Snap Tracking
- 3.6 Isometric Drafting
- 3.7 Extra Steps
- 3.8 What Have We Learned?
- 3.9 Exercises
- 3.10 Questions
- Lesson 4: Display Controls and Basic Text
- 4.1 Getting Closer: The Zoom Command
- 4.2 Why Find It Twice - The View Command
- 4.3 Simple Text
- 4.4 Editing Text - The DDEdit Command
- 4.5 Finding and Replacing Text
- 4.6 Adding Flavor to Text with Style
- 4.7 Extra Steps
- 4.8 What Have We Learned?
- 4.9 Exercises
- 4.10 Questions
- Lesson 5: Geometric Shapes (Other Than Lines and Rectangles)
- 5.1 Getting Around to Circles
- 5.2 Squished Circles and Ellipses
- 5.3 Arcs: The Hard Way
- 5.4 Drawing Multisided Figures: The Polygon Command
- 5.5 Putting It All Together
- 5.6 Extra Steps
- 5.8 Exercises
- 5.9 Questions
- Section II: Beyond the Basics
- Lesson 6: Adding Flavor to Your Drawings with Layers
- 6.1 The Simple Command Approach
- 6.2 Color, Linetype, and So Much More - Layers
- 6.3 Sharing Setups: The AutoCAD Design Center and the Layer Translator
- 6.4 The Scenario
- 6.5 Un-Ohs, Boo Boos, Ah s: The Miracles of CHProp and the Object Property Manager
- 6.6 And Again, the Easy Way to Modify: Matchprop
- 6.7 Extra Steps
- 6.8 What Have We Learned?
- 6.9 Exercises
- 6.10 Questions
- Lesson 7: Editing Your Drawing - Modification Procedures
- 7.1 The Change Group
- 7.2 The Location and Number Group
- 7.3 Moving and Copying Objects between Drawings
- 7.4 Extra Steps
- 7.5 What Have We Learned?
- 7.6 Exercises
- 7.7 Questions
- Lesson 8: More Complex Lines - Polylines
- 8.1 Using the PLine Command for Wide Lines and Multi-Segmented Lines
- 8.2 The Most Useful of the Most Overlooked - AutoCAD s Inquiry Commands
- 8.3 Editing Polylines - The PEdit Command
- 8.4 Extra Steps
- 8.5 What Have We Learned?
- 8.6 Exercises
- 8.7 Questions
- Lesson 9: More Editing Tools
- 9.1 Location and Number
- 9.2 More Commands in the Change Group
- 9.3 Identifying the Changes - The Revcloud Command
- 9.4 Putting It All Together
- 9.5 Extra Steps
- 9.6 What Have We Learned?
- 9.7 Exercises
- 9.8 Questions
- Lesson 10: Some Useful Drawing Tricks
- 10.1 Equal or Measured Distances - The Divide and Measure Commands
- 10.2 So Where s the Point?
- 10.3 From Outlines to Solids - The Solid and Donut Commands
- 10.4 More Object Selection Methods
- 10.5 Object Selection Filters - Quick Filters
- 10.6 Extra Steps
- 10.7 What Have We Learned?
- 10.8 Exercises
- 10.9 Questions
- Section III: Some More Advanced Techniques
- Lesson 11: Guidelines and Splines
- 11.1 Contour Lines with the Spline Command
- 11.2 Changing Splines - The Splinedit Command
- 11.3 Guidelines
- 11.4 Extra Steps
- 11.5 What Have We Learned?
- 11.6 Exercises
- 11.7 Questions
- Lesson 12: Advanced Lines - Multilines
- 12.1 Many at Once - AutoCAD s Multilines and the MLine Command
- 12.2 Options: The MLStyle Command
- 12.3 Editing Multilines: The MLEdit Command
- 12.4 The Project
- 12.5 Extra Steps
- 12.6 What Have We Learned?
- 12.7 Exercises
- 12.8 Questions
- Lesson 13: Advanced Text - MText
- 13.1 AutoCAD s Word Processor: The Multiline Text Editor
- 13.2 Okay I Typed It, but I Don t Know If It s Right - AutoCAD s Spell Command
- 13.3 Find and Replace - without the Multiline Text Editor
- 13.4 Extra Steps
- 13.5 What Have We Learned?
- 13.6 Exercises
- 13.7 Questions
- Lesson 14: Basic Dimensioning
- 14.1 First, Some Terminology
- 14.2 Dimension Creation: Dimension Commands
- 14.3 And Now the Easy Way: Quick Dimensioning (QDim)
- 14.4 Dimension Editing: The Dimedit and DimTedit Commands
- 14.5 Isometric Dimensioning
- 14.6 Extra Steps
- 14.7 What Have We Learned?
- 14.8 Exercises
- 14.9 Questions
- Lesson 15: Customizing Dimensions
- 15.1 Creating Dimension Styles: The DDim Command
- 15.2 Try One
- 15.3 Simple Repairs
- 15.4 Extra Steps
- 15.5 What Have We Learned?
- 15.6 Exercises
- 15.7 Questions
- Lesson 16: Advanced Modification Techniques
- 16.1 Object Selection Settings
- 16.2 A Whole New Ball Game Editing with Grips
- 16.3 Extra Steps
- 16.4 What Have We Learned?
- 16.5 Exercises
- 16.6 Questions
- Appendix A: Drawing Scales
- Appendix B: Function Keys and Their Uses
- Appendix D: MText Keystrokes
- Appendix E: Dimension Variables
- Appendix F: Hotkeys
- List of Figures