Harnessing Autocad 2001
by Stellman, Thomas A.; Krishnan, G. V.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-11-29
Publisher(s): Cengage Learning
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Summary
Harnessing AutoCAD 2000i includes excellent coverage of AutoCAD software fundamentals reinforced with illustrations and numerous exercises, including step-by-step project exercises. Chapter features include input methods, drawing setup, and "Points of Interest". Chapter review questions check progress and comprehension.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. xxiii |
| Harnessing the Power of Autocad 2000i | p. XXIII |
| Highlights and Features of This New Edition | p. XXIII |
| How to Use This Book | p. XXIV |
| Style Conventions | p. XXV |
| How to Invoke Commands | p. XXV |
| Exercise Icons | p. XXV |
| Online Companion | p. XXVI |
| E-Resource | p. XXVI |
| Wewant to Hear From You! | p. XXVII |
| About the Authors | p. XXVIII |
| Acknowledgments | p. XXVIII |
| Getting Started | p. 1 |
| Autocad Commands | p. 2 |
| Starting Autocad | p. 2 |
| Autocad Screen | p. 14 |
| Input Methods | p. 23 |
| Using Dialog Boxes | p. 31 |
| Getting Help | p. 34 |
| Beginning a New Drawing with the New Command | p. 44 |
| Opening an Existing Drawing with the Open Command | p. 45 |
| Working with Multiple Drawings | p. 49 |
| Changing Units | p. 51 |
| Changing the Limits | p. 55 |
| Saving a Drawing | p. 58 |
| Exiting Autocad | p. 61 |
| Review Questions | p. 62 |
| Fundamentals I | p. 65 |
| Constructing Geometric Figures | p. 65 |
| Coordinate Systems | p. 73 |
| Exercises 2-1 Through 2-4 | p. 80 |
| Object Selection | p. 106 |
| Modify Objects | p. 108 |
| Project Excercise | p. 111 |
| Exercises 2-5 Through 2-8 | p. 125 |
| Exercises 2-9 Through 2-24 | p. 135 |
| Review Questions | p. 144 |
| Fundamentals II | p. 149 |
| Drafting Settings | p. 149 |
| Display Control | p. 196 |
| Setting Multiple Viewports | p. 211 |
| Creating and Modifying Layer System | p. 218 |
| Setting the Linetype Scale Factor | p. 238 |
| Wild Cards and Named Objects | p. 239 |
| U, Undo, and Redo Commands | p. 240 |
| Project Excercise | p. 244 |
| Exercises 3-1 Through 3-6 | p. 254 |
| Review Questions | p. 263 |
| Fundamentals III | p. 269 |
| Drawing Construction Lines | p. 269 |
| Drawing Polygons | p. 272 |
| Drawing Ellipses | p. 276 |
| Drawing Polylines | p. 280 |
| Drawing Text | p. 287 |
| Editing Text | p. 298 |
| Creating and Modifying Text Styles | p. 301 |
| Creating Objects from Existing Objects | p. 305 |
| Modifying Objects | p. 325 |
| Project Excercise | p. 333 |
| Exercises 4-1 Through 4-7 | p. 349 |
| Review Questions | p. 360 |
| Fundamentals IV | p. 365 |
| Constructing Geometric Figures | p. 365 |
| Object Selection | p. 373 |
| Object Selection Modes | p. 376 |
| Modifying Objects | p. 378 |
| Project Excercise | p. 394 |
| Exercises 5-1 Through 5-5 | p. 403 |
| Review Questions | p. 410 |
| Fundamentals V | p. 415 |
| Multilines | p. 415 |
| Spline Curves | p. 437 |
| Editingwith Grips | p. 443 |
| Selecting Objects by Quick Select | p. 450 |
| Selection Set by Filter Tool | p. 452 |
| Changing Properties of Selected Objects | p. 454 |
| Grouping Objects | p. 456 |
| Information about Objects | p. 461 |
| System Variables | p. 465 |
| Project Excercise | p. 468 |
| Exercises 6-1 Through 6-6 | p. 491 |
| Review Questions | p. 499 |
| Dimensioning | p. 505 |
| Dimension Terminology | p. 506 |
| Associative/Non-Associative Dimensions | p. 508 |
| Dimensioning Commands | p. 508 |
| Editing Dimension Text | p. 539 |
| Dimension Styles | p. 542 |
| Overriding the Dimension Feature | p. 557 |
| Updating Dimensions | p. 558 |
| Project Excercise | p. 560 |
| Exercises 7-1 Through 7-5 | p. 569 |
| Review Questions | p. 579 |
| Plotting/Printing | p. 583 |
| Planning the Plotted Sheet | p. 583 |
| Plotting from Model Space | p. 590 |
| Plotting from Layout (Wysiwyg) | p. 604 |
| Creating and Modifying Plot Styletables | p. 633 |
| Changing Plot Style Property Foran Object or Layer | p. 644 |
| Configuring Plotters | p. 646 |
| Batch Plotting | p. 650 |
| Project Excercise | p. 651 |
| Review Questions | p. 665 |
| Hatching and Boundaries | p. 669 |
| What is Hatching? | p. 669 |
| Defining the Hatch Boundary | p. 670 |
| Bhatchversus Hatch | p. 671 |
| Editing Hatches | p. 685 |
| Controlling Thevisibility of Hatch Patterns | p. 686 |
| Project Excercise | p. 687 |
| Exercises 9-1 Through 9-6 | p. 695 |
| Review Questions | p. 703 |
| Block References and Attributes | p. 705 |
| Creating Blocks | p. 706 |
| Inserting Block References | p. 712 |
| Nested Blocks | p. 716 |
| Explode Command | p. 716 |
| Multiple Inserts of Block References | p. 718 |
| Inserting Unit Block References | p. 718 |
| Creating One Drawing from Another | p. 726 |
| Base Command | p. 728 |
| Attributes | p. 728 |
| Attribute Commands | p. 731 |
| Dividing Objects | p. 756 |
| Measuring Objects | p. 757 |
| Project Excercise | p. 758 |
| Exercises 10-1 Through 10-5 | p. 772 |
| Review Questions | p. 779 |
| External References | p. 785 |
| External References | p. 785 |
| External References and Dependent Symbols | p. 787 |
| Attaching and Manipulating with the Xref Command | p. 789 |
| Adding Dependent Symbols to the Current Drawing | p. 796 |
| Controlling the Display of External References | p. 797 |
| Editing Reference Files/Xref Edit Control | p. 800 |
| Managing External References | p. 802 |
| Images | p. 803 |
| Project Excercise | p. 812 |
| Exercises 11-1 Through 11-5 | p. 823 |
| Review Questions | p. 836 |
| AutoCAD DesignCenter | p. 839 |
| Opening the Designcenter Window | p. 841 |
| Positioning the Designcenter Window | p. 842 |
| Parts of the Designcenter Window | p. 844 |
| Toolbar Buttons | p. 846 |
| Viewing Content | p. 852 |
| Searching for Content | p. 860 |
| Adding Content to Drawings | p. 864 |
| Opening Drawings | p. 865 |
| Exiting Autocad Designcenter | p. 865 |
| Drawing Exercises 12-1 Through 12-4 | p. 866 |
| Review Questions | p. 872 |
| Utility Commands | p. 875 |
| Partial Load | p. 875 |
| Drawing Properties | p. 877 |
| The Geometric Calculator (CAL) | p. 880 |
| Managing Named Objects | p. 889 |
| Deleting Unused Named Objects | p. 890 |
| Command Modifier--Multiple | p. 893 |
| Utility Display Commands | p. 893 |
| Changing the Display Order of Objects | p. 898 |
| Object Properties | p. 899 |
| X, Y, and Z Filters--an Enhancement to Object Snap | p. 906 |
| Shell Command | p. 909 |
| Setting Up a Drawing | p. 910 |
| Time Command | p. 914 |
| Audit Command | p. 915 |
| Object Linking and Embedding (Ole) | p. 916 |
| Custom Settings with the Options Dialog Box | p. 925 |
| Saving Objects in Other File Formats (Exporting) | p. 942 |
| Importingvarious File Formats | p. 943 |
| Slides and Scripts | p. 945 |
| Review Questions | p. 955 |
| Internet Utilities | p. 961 |
| Using Autocad Today | p. 962 |
| Launching the Default Web Browser | p. 967 |
| Uniform Resource Locator | p. 969 |
| Opening and Saving Drawings From the Internet | p. 971 |
| Working with Hyperlinks | p. 974 |
| Drawing Web Format | p. 980 |
| Publishing Autocad Drawings to the Web | p. 990 |
| Etransmit Utility | p. 995 |
| Using Meet Now | p. 1000 |
| Project Excercise | p. 1007 |
| Review Questions | p. 1011 |
| AutoCAD 3D | p. 1015 |
| What is 3D? | p. 1015 |
| Coordinate Systems | p. 1017 |
| Viewing in 3D | p. 1033 |
| Creating 3D Objects | p. 1046 |
| Creating Meshes | p. 1053 |
| Editing in 3D | p. 1063 |
| Creating Solid Shapes | p. 1069 |
| Creating Composite Solids | p. 1080 |
| Editing 3D Solids | p. 1086 |
| Mass Properties of a Solid | p. 1107 |
| Placing Multiviews in Paper Space | p. 1109 |
| Generating Views Inviewports | p. 1112 |
| Generating Profiles | p. 1113 |
| Project Excercise | p. 1115 |
| Exercises 15-1 Through 15-5 | p. 1133 |
| Review Questions | p. 1138 |
| Rendering | p. 1145 |
| Shading a Model | p. 1145 |
| Rendering a Model | p. 1147 |
| Setting Up Lights | p. 1153 |
| Setting Up a Scene | p. 1157 |
| Materials | p. 1160 |
| Setting Preferences for Rendering | p. 1162 |
| Saving an Image | p. 1164 |
| Viewing an Image | p. 1164 |
| Statistics | p. 1166 |
| Review Questions | p. 1167 |
| The Tablet and Digitizing | p. 1171 |
| Tablet Operation | p. 1172 |
| Custom Menus | p. 1174 |
| Tablet Command | p. 1174 |
| Tablet Mode and Sketching | p. 1181 |
| Review Questions | p. 1182 |
| Customizing AutoCAD | p. 1185 |
| External Commands and Aliases | p. 1185 |
| Customizing Menus | p. 1194 |
| Customizing Tablet Menus | p. 1224 |
| Dialog Control Language | p. 1226 |
| Exercises | p. 1230 |
| Customizing Hatch Patterns | p. 1231 |
| Customizing Shapes and Text Fonts | p. 1240 |
| Custom Linetypes | p. 1249 |
| Customizing and Programming Language | p. 1250 |
| Review Questions | p. 1251 |
| Visual LISP | p. 1255 |
| Background | p. 1255 |
| A Test Drive of Visual Lisp | p. 1256 |
| Vlisp Fundamentals | p. 1261 |
| Making an Application | p. 1266 |
| Project Definition | p. 1270 |
| Viewtoolbar | p. 1272 |
| Autolisp Basics | p. 1273 |
| Lists | p. 1281 |
| Exercises | p. 1284 |
| Pausing for User Input | p. 1284 |
| Elementary Functions | p. 1286 |
| List Handling Functions | p. 1288 |
| Type-Changing Functions | p. 1296 |
| Input Functions | p. 1297 |
| Conditional and Logic Functions | p. 1301 |
| Exercises | p. 1304 |
| Custom Commands and Functions | p. 1306 |
| What is the Database? | p. 1312 |
| Debug Your Program | p. 1322 |
| Autocad Development System (ADS) | p. 1324 |
| Review Questions | p. 1325 |
| Hardware Requirements | p. 1327 |
| Recommended Configuration | p. 1327 |
| Windows: the Operating Environment | p. 1328 |
| Input Devices | p. 1328 |
| Plotters and Printers | p. 1329 |
| Listing of AutoCAD Commands and Dimensioning Variables | p. 1331 |
| Dimensioning Commands | p. 1356 |
| Dimensioning Variables | p. 1357 |
| Object Selection | p. 1360 |
| AutoCAD Toolbars | p. 1361 |
| System Variables | p. 1365 |
| Hatch and Fill Patterns | p. 1383 |
| Hatch Patterns | p. 1384 |
| Postscript Fill Paterns | p. 1389 |
| Fonts | p. 1391 |
| Using Shx and Pfb Files | p. 1391 |
| Linetypes and Lineweights | p. 1395 |
| Command Aliases | p. 1397 |
| Index | p. 1403 |
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