AutoCAD For Dummies

ISBN-13: 9781119868767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 544 str.

Ralph Grabowski

Spis treści

Introduction 1About This Book 2Foolish Assumptions 3Conventions Used in This Book 3Using the command line 3Using aliases 4Icons Used in This Book 4Beyond the Book 5Where to Go from Here 6Part 1: Getting Started With Autocad 7Chapter 1: Introducing AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT 9Launching AutoCAD 10Drawing in AutoCAD 11Understanding Pixels and Vectors 14The Cartesian Coordinate System 15Chapter 2: The Grand Tour of AutoCAD 17Looking at AutoCAD's Drawing Screen 18For your information 21Making choices from the Application menu 22Unraveling the Ribbon 24Getting with the Program 27Looking for Mr Status Bar 28Using Dynamic Input 28Let your fingers do the talking: The command line 29The key(board) to AutoCAD success 30Keeping tabs on palettes 34Down the main stretch: The drawing area 34Fun with F1 35Chapter 3: A Lap around the CAD Track 37A Simple Setup 38Drawing a (Base) Plate 43Taking a Closer Look with Zoom and Pan 52Modifying to Make It Merrier 53Crossing your hatches 53Now that's a stretch 54Following the Plot 57Plotting the drawing 57Today's layer forecast: Freezing 60Chapter 4: Setup for Success 61A Setup Roadmap 62Choosing your units 62Weighing up your scales 65Thinking about paper 68Defending your border 69A Template for Success 69Making the Most of Model Space 72Setting your units 72Making the drawing area snap-py (and grid-dy) 73Setting linetype, text, and dimension scales 76Entering drawing properties 77Making Templates Your Own 77Chapter 5: A Zoom with a View 83Panning and Zooming with Glass and Hand 84The wheel deal 84Navigating a drawing 85Zoom, Zoom, Zoom 87A View by Any Other Name 88Degenerating and Regenerating 91Part 2: Let There Be Lines 93Chapter 6: Along the Straight and Narrow 95Drawing for Success 96Introducing the Straight-Line Drawing Commands 97Drawing Lines and Polylines 98Toeing the line 99Connecting the lines with polyline 100Squaring Off with Rectangles 105Choosing Sides with POLygon 106Chapter 7: Dangerous Curves Ahead 109Throwing Curves 109Going Full Circle 110Arc-y-ology 112Solar Ellipses 114Splines: Sketchy, Sinuous Curves 115Donuts: Circles with a Difference 117Revision Clouds on the Horizon 118Scoring Points 120Chapter 8: Preciseliness Is Next to CADliness 123Controlling Precision 124Understanding the AutoCAD Coordinate Systems 127Keyboard capers: Coordinate input 128Introducing user coordinate systems 128Drawing by numbers 129Grabbing an Object and Making It Snappy 131Grabbing points with object snap overrides 132Snap goes the cursor 134Running with object snaps 135Other Practical Precision Procedures 137Chapter 9: Manage Your Properties 141Using Properties with Objects 142Using the ByLayer approach 142Changing properties 144Working with Layers 146Accumulating properties 148Creating new layers 149Manipulating layers 156Scaling an object's linetype 158Using Named Objects 159Using AutoCAD DesignCenter 161Chapter 10: Grabbing Onto Object Selection 163Commanding and Selecting 164Command-first editing 164Selection-first editing 164Direct-object editing 164Choosing an editing style 165Selecting Objects 166One-by-one selection 167Selection boxes left and right 167Tying up object selection 169Perfecting Selecting 170AutoCAD Groupies 173Object Selection: Now You See It 173Chapter 11: Edit for Credit 175Assembling Your AutoCAD Toolkit 175The Big Three: Move, COpy, and Stretch 178Base points and displacements 178Move 180COpy 181Copy between drawings 182Stretch 183More Manipulations 186Mirror, mirror on the monitor 186ROtate 188SCale 189-ARray 190Offset 192Slicing, Dicing, and Splicing 194TRim and EXtend 194BReak 196Fillet, CHAmfer, and BLEND 197Join 200Other editing commands 202Getting a Grip 203When Editing Goes Bad 206Dare to Compare 207Chapter 12: Planning for Paper 209Setting Up a Layout in Paper Space 212The layout two-step 212Put it on my tabs 215Any Old Viewport in a Layout 216Up and down the detail viewport scales 216Keeping track of where you're at 218Practice Makes Perfect 219Clever Paper Space Tricks 219Part 3: If Drawings Could Talk 221Chapter 13: Text with Character 223Getting Ready to Write 224Creating Simply Stylish Text 226Font follies 227Get in style 228Taking Your Text to New Heights 230Plotted text height 230Calculating non-annotative AutoCAD text height 231Entering Text 232Using the Same Old Line 232Saying More in Multiline Text 235Making it with mText 235mText dons a mask 238Insert Field 239Doing a number on your mText lists 239Line up in columns -- now! 242Modifying mText 243Turning On Annotative Objects 244Gather Round the Tables 247Tables have style, too 247Creating and editing tables 249Take Me to Your Leader 251Electing a leader 251Multi options for multileaders 254Chapter 14: Entering New Dimensions 255Adding Dimensions to a Drawing 256Dimensioning the Legacy Way 257A Field Guide to Dimensions 260Self-centered 263Quick, dimension! 263Where, oh where, do my dimensions go? 264The Latest Styles in Dimensioning 266Creating dimension styles 269Adjusting style settings 271Changing styles 274Scaling Dimensions for Output 275Editing Dimensions 278Editing dimension geometry 278Editing dimension text 280Controlling and editing dimension associativity 281And the Correct Layer Is 282Chapter 15: Down the Hatch! 283Creating Hatches 284Hatching Its Own Layer 287Using the Hatches Tab 287Scaling Hatches 290Scaling the easy way 291Annotative versus non-annotative 292Pushing the Boundaries of Hatch 292Adding style 293Hatches from scratch 294Editing Hatch Objects 296Chapter 16: The Plot Thickens 299You Say "Printing," I Say "Plotting" 300The Plot Quickens 300Plotting success in 16 steps 300Getting with the system 304Configuring your printer 305Preview one, two 307Instead of fit, scale it 307Plotting the Layout of the Land 309Plotting Lineweights and Colors 311Plotting with style 311Plotting through thick and thin 316Plotting in color 320It's a (Page) Setup! 321Continuing the Plot Dialog 322The Plot Sickens 325Part 4: Advancing With Autocad 327Chapter 17: The ABCs of Blocks 329Rocking with Blocks 330Creating Block Definitions 332Inserting Blocks 336Attributes: Fill-in-the-Blank Blocks 340Creating attribute definitions 341Defining blocks that contain attribute definitions 343Inserting blocks that contain attribute definitions 343Editing attribute values 344Extracting data 344Exploding Blocks 345Purging Unused Block Definitions 345Chapter 18: Everything from Arrays to Xrefs 347Arraying Associatively 349Comparing the old and new ARray commands 350Hip, hip, array! 351Associatively editing 356Going External 358Becoming attached to your xrefs 360Layer-palooza 362Editing an external reference file 362Forging an xref path 363Managing xrefs 365Blocks, Xrefs, and Drawing Organization 366Mastering the Raster 367Attaching a raster image 369Maintaining your image 370You Say PDF; I Say DWF 371Theme and Variations: Dynamic Blocks 373Now you see it 373Lights! Parameters! Actions! 377Manipulating dynamic blocks 379Chapter 19: Call the Parametrics! 381Maintaining Design Intent 382Defining terms 384Forget about drawing with precision! 385Constrain yourself 386Understanding Geometric Constraints 386Applying a little more constraint 388Using inferred constraints 393You AutoConstrain yourself! 394Understanding Dimensional Constraints 395Practice a little constraint 396Making your drawing even smarter 398Using Parameters Manager 400Dimensions or constraints? Have it both ways! 403Lunchtime! 406Chapter 20: Drawing on the Internet 407The Internet and AutoCAD: An Overview 407You send me 408Prepare it with eTransmit 408Rapid eTransmit 409Increasing cloudiness 411Bad reception? 411Help from Reference Manager 412The Drawing Protection Racket 413Outgoing! 414Autodesk weather forecast: Increasing cloud 414Your head planted firmly in the cloud 416AutoCAD Web and Mobile 417Part 5: On A 3d Spree 419Chapter 21: It's a 3D World After All 421The 3.5 Kinds of 3D Digital Models 422Tools of the 3D Trade 424Warp speed ahead 425Entering the third dimension 425Untying the Ribbon and opening some palettes 426Modeling from Above 428Using 3D coordinate input 428Using point filters 429Object snaps and object snap tracking 429Changing Work Planes 430Displaying the UCS icon 430Adjusting the UCS 431Orbit à go-go 437Taking a spin around the cube 438Grabbing the SteeringWheels 440Visualizing 3D Objects 440On a Render Bender 442Chapter 22: From Drawings to Models 443Is 3D for Me? 444Getting Your 3D Bearings 445Creating a better 3D template 445Seeing the world from new viewpoints 450From Drawing to Modeling in 3D 451Drawing basic 3D objects 452Gaining a solid foundation 453Drawing solid primitives 454Adding the Third Dimension to 2D Objects 455Adding thickness to a 2D object 455Extruding open and closed objects 455Pressing and pulling closed boundaries 456Lofting open and closed objects 456Sweeping open and closed objects along a path 457Revolving open or closed objects around an axis 458Modifying 3D Objects 458Selecting subobjects 459Working with gizmos 459More 3D variants of 2D commands 460Editing solids 461Chapter 23: It's Showtime! 465Get the 2D Out of Here! 466A different point of view 470Additional 3D tricks 471AutoCAD's top model 472Visualizing the Digital World 474Adding Lights 475Default lighting 475User-defined lights 476Sunlight 479Creating and Applying Materials 479Defining a Background 482Rendering a 3D Model 484Chapter 24: AutoCAD Plays Well with Others 485Get Out of Here! 485Making a splash with PNG 486PDF to the rescue 488What the DWF? 4893D print 490But wait! There's more! 491Open Up and Let Me In! 491Editing other drawing file formats 491PDF editing 491Translation, Please! 494The Importance of Being DWG 495Part 6: The Part of Tens 497Chapter 25: Ten AutoCAD Resources 499Autodesk Discussion Groups 499Autodesk's Own Blogs 499Autodesk University 500Autodesk Channel on YouTube 500World Wide (CAD) Web 500Your Local Authorized Training Center 501Your Local User Group 501Autodesk User Groups International 502Books 502Autodesk Feedback Community 502Chapter 26: Ten System Variables to Make Your AutoCAD Life Easier 503Aperture 504Dimassoc 505Menubar 505Mirrtext 505Osnapz 506Pickbox 506Rememberfolders 507Rollovertips And Tooltips 507Taskbar 508Visretain 508And the Bonus Round 508Chapter 27: Ten AutoCAD Secrets 511Sheet Sets 511Custom Tool Palettes 512Ribbon Customization 512Toolsets 512Programming Languages 512Vertical Versions 513Language Packs 513Multiple Projects or Clients 514Data Extraction and Linking 514Untying the Ribbon and Drawings 514Index 515

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Ralph Grabowski is editor of upFront.eZine, a weekly e-newsletter that reports on the business of computer-aided design. He is the author of more than 240 books and e-books on CAD and other topics, and his renowned WorldCAD Access industry blog is widely respected in the industry.