AutoCAD 2004. One Step at a Time (Part 1)

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Year: 2003
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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