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AutoCAD 2013 For Dummies.

AutoCAD 2013 For Dummies.
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10023428 Access this eBook online Ebook for Applied Information Technology   GUtech Library . . On Loan . 20 Jun 2024
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ISBN 9781118333525
9781118281123
Author Fane, Bill
Title AutoCAD 2013 For Dummies.
1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (595 pages)
Contents AutoCAD 2013 For Dummies -- About the Authors -- Dedication -- Authors' Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- What's Not (And What Is) in This Book -- Who Do We Think You Are? -- How This Book Is Organized -- Icons Used in This Book -- A Few Conventions - Just in Case -- Where to Go from Here -- Part I: AutoCAD 101 -- Chapter 1: Introducing AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT -- Why AutoCAD? -- The Importance of Being DWG -- Seeing the LT -- Checking System Requirements -- Suddenly, It's 2013! -- Chapter 2: Le Tour de AutoCAD 2013 -- AutoCAD Does Windows (And Office) -- And They're Off: AutoCAD's Opening Screens -- Getting with the Program -- Fun with F1 -- Chapter 3: A Lap around the CAD Track -- A Simple Setup -- Drawing a (Base) Plate -- Getting a Closer Look with Zoom and Pan -- Modifying to Make It Merrier -- Following the Plot -- Chapter 4: Setup for Success -- A Setup Roadmap -- A Template for Success -- Making the Most of Model Space -- Making Templates Your Own -- Chapter 5: Planning for Paper -- Setting Up a Layout in Paper Space -- About Paper Space Layouts and Plotting -- Part II: Let There Be Lines -- Chapter 6: Manage Your Properties -- Managing Your Properties -- Using Named Objects -- Chapter 7: Preciseliness Is Next to CADliness -- Controlling Your Precision -- Other Practical Precision Procedures -- Chapter 8: Along the Straight and Narrow -- Introducing the AutoCAD Drawing Commands -- The Straight and Narrow: Lines, Polylines, and Polygons -- Chapter 9: Dangerous Curves Ahead -- (Throwing) Curves -- Scoring Points -- Chapter 10: Get a Grip on Object Selection -- Commanding and Selecting -- Grab It -- Perfecting Selecting -- AutoCAD Groupies -- Object Selection: Now You See It . . . -- Get a Grip -- Chapter 11: Edit for Credit -- Your AutoCAD Toolkit -- The Big Three: Move, Copy, and Stretch -- More Manipulations.
Slicing, Dicing, and Splicing -- When Editing Goes Bad -- Chapter 12: A Zoom with a View -- Zoom and Pan with Glass and Hand -- A View by Any Other Name . . . -- Looking Around in Layout Land -- Degenerating and Regenerating -- Part III: If Drawings Could Talk -- Chapter 13: Text with Character -- Getting Ready to Write -- Using the Same Old Line -- Turning On Your Annotative Objects -- Saying More in Multiline Text -- Gather Round the Tables -- Take Me to Your Leader -- Chapter 14: Entering New Dimensions -- How Do You Measure Up? -- A Field Guide to Dimensions -- The Latest Styles in Dimensioning -- Size Matters -- Editing Dimensions -- Chapter 15: Down the Hatch! -- Batten Down the Hatches! -- Don't Count Your Hatches. . . -- Size Matters! -- Pushing the Boundary (Of) Hatch -- Editing Hatch Objects -- Chapter 16: The Plot Thickens -- You Say Printing, We Say Plotting -- The Plot Quickens -- Plotting the Layout of the Land -- Plotting Lineweights and Colors -- It's a (Page) Setup! -- Continuing the Plot Dialog -- The Plot Sickens -- Part IV: Advancing with AutoCAD -- Chapter 17: The ABCs of Blocks -- Rocking with Blocks -- Creating Block Definitions -- Inserting Blocks -- Attributes: Fill-in-the-Blank Blocks -- Exploding Blocks -- Purging Unused Block Definitions -- Chapter 18: Everything from Arrays to Xrefs -- Arraying Associatively -- Going External -- Blocks, Xrefs, and Drawing Organization -- Mastering the Raster -- You Say PDF, We Say DWF -- Theme and Variations: Dynamic Blocks -- Chapter 19: Call the Parametrics! -- Maintaining Design Intent -- Understanding Geometric Constraints -- Understanding Dimensional Constraints -- Chapter 20: Drawing on the Internet -- The Internet and AutoCAD: An Overview -- Design Web Format - Not Just for the Web -- The Drawing Protection Racket -- Autodesk Weather Forecast: Increasing Cloud.
Working Solidly in the Cloud -- Tomorrow's Forecast -- Part V: On a 3D Spree -- Chapter 21: It's a 3D World After All -- Understanding 3D Digital Models -- Tools of the Trade -- Modeling from Above -- Changing Planes -- Navigating the 3D Waters -- Visualizing 3D Objects -- Chapter 22: From Drawings to Models -- Is 3D for Me? -- Getting Your 3D Bearings -- From Drawing to Modeling in 3D -- Adding the Third Dimension to 2D Objects -- Modifying 3D Objects -- Chapter 23: On a Render Bender -- Get the 2D Out of Here! -- Do You See What I See? -- Visualizing the Digital World -- Adding Lighting -- Creating and Applying Materials -- Defining a Background -- Rendering a 3D Model -- Part VI: The Part of Tens -- Chapter 24: Ten Great AutoCAD Resources -- Autodesk Feedback Community -- Autodesk Discussion Groups -- Autodesk's Own Bloggers -- Autodesk University -- The Autodesk Channel on YouTube -- The World Wide (CAD) Web -- Your Local ATC -- Your Local User Group -- AUGI -- Books -- Chapter 25: Ten (Or So) 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 -- And The Good News Is . . . -- Chapter 26: Ten System Variables to Make Your Life Easier -- APERTURE -- DIMASSOC -- MENUBAR -- MIRRTEXT -- OSNAPZ -- PICKBOX -- REMEMBERFOLDERS -- ROLLOVERTIPS -- TOOLTIPS -- VISRETAIN -- And the Bonus Round -- Index.
Subject Art and design -- Computer programs -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Other Author Electronic books.
Other name(s) Byrnes, David
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