Autocad Tutorials for Beginners

Contents
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi

Part I: AutoCAD Basics 1


Chapter 1: Starting to Draw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3


Chapter 2: Opening a Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17


Chapter 3: Using Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27


Chapter 4: Specifying Coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53


Chapter 5: Setting Up a Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89


Part II: Drawing in Two Dimensions 107


Chapter 6: Drawing Simple Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109


Chapter 7: Drawing Curves and Point Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119


Chapter 8: Viewing Your Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Chapter 9: Editing Your Drawing: Basic Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175


Chapter 10: Editing Your Drawing: Advanced Tools . . . . . . . . . . 207


Chapter 11: Organizing Drawings with Layers, Colors,


Chapter 12: Getting Information from Your Drawing . . . . . . . . . 315


Chapter 13: Creating Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339


Chapter 14: Drawing Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377


Chapter 15: Creating Dimension Styles and Tolerances . . . . . . . . 425

Chapter 16: Drawing Complex Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467


Chapter 17: Plotting and Printing Your Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . 521


Part III: Working with Data 565


Chapter 18: Working with Blocks and Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . 567


Chapter 19: Referencing Other Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619


Chapter 20: Working with External Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643


Part IV: Drawing in Three Dimensions 687


Chapter 21: Specifying 3D Coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689

Chapter 22: Viewing 3D Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715


Chapter 23: Creating 3D Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763



Chapter 24: Creating Solids and Editing in 3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805


Chapter 25: Rendering in 3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865


Part V: Organizing and Managing Drawings 901


Chapter 26: Keeping Control of Your Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 903
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Chapter 27: Working with Other Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949


Chapter 28: Getting on the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 975


Part VI: Customizing AutoCAD 1005


Chapter 29: Customizing Commands, Toolbars, and

Chapter 30: Creating Macros and Slide Shows with Script Files. . . 1029

Chapter 31: Creating Your Own Linetypes and Hatch Patterns . . . 1041

Chapter 32: Creating Shapes and Fonts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1055


Chapter 33: Customizing Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1069



Part VII: Programming AutoCAD 1113


Chapter 34: Understanding AutoLISP and Visual LISP Basics . . . . 1115



Chapter 35: Exploring AutoLISP Further . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1135



Chapter 36: Exploring Advanced AutoLISP Topics. . . . . . . . . . . 1165

Chapter 37: Programming with Visual Basic for Applications. . . . 1185

Part VIII: Appendix 1219


Appendix: What’s on the CD-ROM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1221


Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1229


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