AutoCAD 2012 for dummies /
David Byrnes
- Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley Publishing Incorporation, c2011
- xxii, 534 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Foreword -- Introduction -- What's not (and what is) in this book -- Mac attack! -- Who do I think you are? -- How this book is organized -- Part 1: AutoCAD 101 -- Part 2: Let there be lines -- Part 3: If drawings could talk -- Part 4: Advancing with AutoCAD -- Part 5: On a 3D spree -- Part 6: Part of tens -- But wait-there's more! -- Icons used in this book -- Few conventions-just in case -- Commanding from the keyboard -- Typing things up with the ribbon -- Where to go from here -- Part 1: -- AutoCAD 101: -- Introducing AutoCAD And AutoCAD LT: -- Why AutoCAD? -- Importance of being DWG -- See the LT -- Checking systems requirements -- Suddenly. Its 2012! -- Le Tour De Autocad 2012: -- AutoCAD does windows (and office) -- They're off: AutoCAD's opening screens -- Running with ribbons -- Getting with the program -- Looking for Mr Status bar -- Let your fingers do the talking: the command window -- Key(board) to AutoCAD success -- Keeping tabs on palettes -- Down the main stretch: the drawing area -- Fun and F1 -- Lap Around The Cad Track: -- Simple setup -- Drawing a (base)plate -- Drawing rectangles on the right layers -- Circling your plate -- Placing your polygon -- Getting a closer look with zoom and pan -- Modifying to make it merrier -- Hip-hip-array! -- Stretching out -- Crossing your hatches -- Following the plot -- Setup For Success: -- Setup roadmap -- Choosing your units -- Weighing up your scales -- Thinking annotatively -- Thinking about paper -- Defending your border -- Template for success -- Making the most of model space -- Setting your units -- Making the drawing area snap-py (and grid-dy) -- Setting linetype and dimension scales -- Entering drawing properties -- Making templates your own -- Planning For Paper: -- Setting up a layout in paper space -- Will that be tabs or buttons? -- Creating layout -- Copying and changing layouts -- Lost in paper space -- View(port) for drawing in -- About paper space layouts and plotting -- Part 2: -- Let There Be Lines: -- Manage Your Properties: -- Managing your properties -- Putting it on a layer -- Accumulating properties -- Creating new layers -- Manipulating layers -- Using named objects -- Using AutoCAD DesignCenter -- Copying layers between drawings -- Preciseliness Is Next To CADliness: -- Controlling your precision -- Keyboard capers: coordinate input -- Understanding AutoCAD's coordinate systems -- Grab an object and make it snappy -- Other practical precision procedures -- Down The Straightaway: -- Introducing the AutoCAD drawing commands -- Straight and narrow: lines, polylines, and polygons -- Toeing the line -- Connecting the lines with polyline -- Squaring off with rectangles -- Choosing your sides with polygon -- Dangerous Curves Ahead: -- (Throwing) curves -- Going full circle -- Arc-y-ology -- Solar ellipses -- Splines: the sketchy, sinuous curves -- Donuts: the circles with a difference -- Revision clouds on the horizon -- Scoring points -- Get A Grip On Object Selection: -- Commanding and selecting -- Command-first editing -- Selection-first editing -- Direct object manipulation -- Choosing an editing style -- Grab it -- One-by one selection -- Selection boxes left and right -- Perfecting selecting -- Object selection: now you see it -- Get a grip -- About grips -- Gripping example -- Move it! -- Copy, or a kinder, gentler move -- Warm-up stretch -- Edit For Credit: -- Your AutoCAD Tool Kit: --Big three: move, copy, and stretch -- Base points and displacements -- Move -- Copy -- Copy between drawings -- Stretch -- More manipulations -- Mirror -- Rotate -- Scale -- Array -- Offset -- Slicing, dicing, and splicing -- Trim and extend -- Break -- Fillet and chamfer and blend -- Join -- Zoom With A View: -- Zoom and pan with glass and hand -- Navigating your drawing -- Time to zoom -- View by any other name -- Looking around in layout land -- Degenerating and regenerating. Part 3: -- If Drawing Could Talk: -- Text With Character: -- Getting ready to write -- Simply stylish text -- Taking your text to new heights -- One line or two? -- Your text will be justified -- Using the same old line -- Turing on your annotative objects -- Saying more in multiline text -- Making it with Mtext -- It slices, it dices -- Doing a number on your Mtext lists -- Line up in columns-now! -- Modifying Mtext -- Gather round the tables -- Tables have style, too -- Creating and editing tables -- Bring out your inner leader -- Electing a leader -- Multi options for multileaders -- Entering New Dimensions: -- Discovering new dimensions -- Anatomy of a dimension -- Field guide to dimensions -- Dimension associativity -- Finding your dimension tools -- Doing dimensions with Syles(s) -- Borrowing existing dimension styles -- Creating and managing dimension styles -- Adjusting style settings -- Drawing dimensions -- Lining up some linear dimensions -- Making dimensions annotative -- Drawing other kinds of dimensions -- Editing dimensions -- Editing dimension geometry -- Editing dimension text -- Controlling and editing dimension associativity -- Down The Hatch: -- Batten down the hatches! -- Pushing the boundary (of) hatch -- Hatch from scratch -- Getting it right: hatch angle and scale -- Hatching for the 21st century -- Do fence me in: defining hatch boundaries -- Have palette, will hatch -- Editing hatch objects -- Plot Thickens: -- You say printing, I say plotting -- Get with the system -- Configure it out -- Simple plot -- Plotting success in 16 steps -- Preview one, two -- Instead of fit, scale it -- Plotting the layout of the land -- Path to paper space layout plotting success -- Plotting lineweights and colors -- Plotting with style -- Plotting through thick and thin -- Plotting in color -- It's a (page) setup! -- Continuing the plot dialog -- Troubles with plotting -- Part 4: -- Advancing With AutoCAD: -- ABCs Of Blocks: -- Rocking with blocks -- Creating block definitions -- Inserting blocks -- Attributes: fill-in-the-blank blocks -- Exploding blocks -- Purging unused block definitions -- Going Dynamic And External: -- Arraying associatively -- Comparing the old and new ARRAY commands -- Arraying along a path -- Associatively editing -- Theme and variations: dynamic blocks -- Now you see it -- Lights! Parameters!!Actions!!! -- Manipulating dynamic blocks -- Going external -- Becoming attached to your xrefs -- Layer-palooza -- Creating and editing an external reference file -- Forging an xrefs -- Managing xrefs -- Blocks, xrefs, and drawing organization -- Mastering the raster -- Attaching an image -- Maintaining your image -- You say PDF, I say DWF -- Call The Parametrics!: -- Maintaining design intent -- Defining terms -- Constrain yourself -- Understanding dimensional constraints -- Practice a little constraint -- Making your drawing even smarter -- Using the parameters manager -- Dimensions or constraints-have it both ways! -- Understanding geometric constraints -- Applying a little more constraint -- Autoconstrain yourself! -- Drawing On The Internet: -- Internet and AutoCAD: an overview -- Sending strategies -- Send it with ETRANSMIT -- Rapid eTransmit -- FTP for you and me -- Bad reception? -- Help from the reference manager -- Design web format-not just for the web -- All about DWF and DWFx -- ePlot, not replot -- Making DWFs with ePlot -- Making DWFs (or plots) with PUBLISH -- Hyper objects -- Autodesk design review 2012 -- Drawing protection racket -- On A 3D Spree: -- It's A 3D World After All: -- Understanding 3D digital models -- Tools of the trade -- Wrap speed ahead -- Entering the third dimension -- Untying the ribbon an opening some palettes -- Modeling from above -- Using 3D coordinate input -- Using point filters -- Object snaps and object snap tracking --- Changing planes -- Displaying the UCS icon -- Adjusting the UCS -- Navigating the 3D waters -- Orbit a go-go -- Taking a spin around the cube -- Grabbing the steering wheels -- Visualizing 3D objects -- Getting some (visual) style -- From Drawing-To Models: -- Is 3D for me? -- Getting your 3D bearings -- Creating a better 3D template -- Seeing the world from new viewpoints -- From drawing to modeling in 3D -- Drawing basic 3D objects -- Gaining a solid foundation -- Drawing solid primitives -- Adding the third dimension to 2D objects -- Creating 3D objects from 2D drawings -- Modifying 3D objects -- Selecting subobjects -- Working with gizmos -- More 3D variants of 2D commands -- Editing solids -- On A Render Bender: -- Visualizing the digital world -- Adding lighting -- Default lighting -- User-defined lights -- Sunlight -- Creating and applying materials -- Defining a background -- Rendering a 3D model -- Part 6: -- Part Of Tens: -- Ten Great AutoCAD Resources: -- Autodesks's feedback community -- Autodesk's discussion groups -- Autodesk's own bloggers -- Autodesk university -- Autodesk channel on YouTube -- World wide (CAD) web -- Your local ATC -- Your local user group -- AUGI -- Books -- Ten Differences Between AutoCAD And AutoCAD LT: -- Price -- 3D abilities -- Customization options -- Network licensing -- Express tools -- Parametrics -- Standards checking -- Data extraction -- MLINE versus DLINE -- Profiles -- Reference manager -- Ten System Variables To Make Your Life Easier: -- APERTURE -- DIMASSOC -- MENUBAR -- MIRRTEXT -- OSNAPZ -- PICKBOX -- REMEMBERFOLDERS -- ROLLOBERTIPS -- TOOLTIPS -- VISRETAIN -- Index.
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