AutoCAD 2006 For Dummies

by Middlebrook, Mark; Byrnes, David

ISBN13: 9780764589256

ISBN10: 0764589253

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 2005-05-20

Publisher(s): For Dummies

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Summary

AutoCAD "X" For Dummies is being updated to reflect the new features in the latest release of AutoCAD.

Author Biography

Mark Middlebrook used to be an engineer but gave it up when he discovered that he couldn’t handle a real job. He is now principal of Daedalus Consulting, an independent CAD and computer consulting company in Oakland, California. (In case you wondered, Daedalus was the guy in ancient Greek legend who built the labyrinth on Crete. Mark named his company after Daedalus before he realized that few of his clients would be able to pronounce it and even fewer spell it.) Mark is also a contributing editor for Cadalyst magazine and Webmaster of markcad.com. When he’s not busy being a cad, Mark sells and writes about wine for Paul Marcus Wines in Oakland. He also teaches literature and philosophy classes at St. Mary’s College of California — hence “Daedalus.” AutoCAD 2006 For Dummies is his eighth book on AutoCAD.

David Byrnes is one of those grizzled old-timers you’ll find mentioned every so often in AutoCAD 2006 For Dummies. He began his drafting career on the boards in 1979 and discovered computer-assisted doodling shortly thereafter. He first learned AutoCAD with version 1.4, around the time when personal computers switched from steam to diesel power. Dave is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, and has been an AutoCAD consultant and trainer for fifteen years. Dave is a contributing editor for Cadalyst magazine and has been a contributing author to ten books on AutoCAD. He teaches AutoCAD and other computer graphics applications at Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design and British Columbia Institute of Technology in Vancouver. Dave has tech edited six AutoCAD For Dummies titles. AutoCAD 2006 For Dummies is his first chance to make his own errors.

Introduction

(1)

What's Not in This Book

(1)

Who Are --- and Aren't --- You?

(1)

How This Book Is Organized

(2)

Part I: AutoCAD 101

(1)

Part II: Let There Be Lines

(1)

Part III: If Drawings Could Talk

(1)

Part IV: Share and Share Alike

(1)

Part V: The Part of Tens

(1)

Icons Used in This Book

(1)

A Few Conventions --- Just in Case

(1)

Part I: AutoCAD 101

(94)

Introducing AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT

(8)

Why AutoCAD?

(1)

The Importance of Being DWG

(2)

Seeing the LT

(1)

Getting Your Kicks with 2006

(3)

Le Tour de AutoCAD 2006

(28)

AutoCAD Does Windows

(1)

And They're Off: AutoCAD's Opening Screen

(17)

Those well-washed Windows

(4)

Looking for Mr. Status Bar

(3)

A smoother ride: Dynamic input

(1)

Let your fingers do the talking: The command line area

(1)

The key(board) to AutoCAD success

(5)

Down the main stretch: The drawing area

(2)

Keeping Tabs on Palettes

(2)

Driving Miss AutoCAD

(3)

Under the hood: System variables

(3)

Chrome and gloss: Dialog boxes

(1)

Fun with F1

(4)

A Lap around the CAD Track

(24)

A Simple Setup

(3)

Drawing a (Base) Plate

(7)

Rectangles on the right layers

(3)

Circling your plate

(1)

Place your polygon

(2)

Get a Closer Look with Zoom and Pan

(2)

Modify to Make It Merrier

(6)

Hooray for array

(2)

Stretch out

(3)

Cross your hatches

(1)

Follow the Plot

(5)

Setup for Success

(32)

A Setup Roadmap

(10)

Choosing your units

(2)

Weighing your scales

(2)

Thinking about paper

(3)

Defending your border

(1)

All system variables go

(1)

A Template for Success

(3)

Making the Most of Model Space

(9)

Setting your units

(2)

Telling your drawing its limits

(2)

Making the drawing area snap-py (and grid-dy)

(2)

Setting linetype and dimension scales

(2)

Entering drawing properties

(1)

Plotting a Layout in Paper Space

(6)

Creating a layout

(3)

Copying and changing layouts

(2)

Lost in paper space

(1)

Making Templates Your Own

(3)

Part II: Let There Be Lines

101

(110)

Get Ready to Draw

103

(28)

Drawing and Editing with AutoCAD

103

(1)

Managing Your Properties

104

(12)

Putting it on a layer

105

(2)

Accumulating properties

107

(3)

Creating new layers

110

(6)

Using AutoCAD DesignCenter

116

(4)

Named objects

116

(1)

Getting (Design) Centered

117

(1)

Copying layers between drawings

118

(2)

Precise-liness Is Next to CAD-liness

120

(11)

Keyboard capers: Coordinate entry

122

(2)

Grab an object and make it snappy

124

(4)

Other precision practices

128

(3)

Where to Draw the Line

131

(28)

Introducing the AutoCAD Drawing Commands

132

(2)

The Straight and Narrow: Lines, Polylines, and Polygons

134

(11)

Toe the line

135

(1)

Connect the lines with polyline

136

(6)

Square off with rectangle

142

(1)

Choose your sides with polygon

143

(2)

(Throwing) Curves

145

(10)

Going full circle

145

(2)

Arc-y-ology

147

(2)

Ellipses (S. Grant?)

149

(1)

Splines: The sketchy, sinuous curyes

150

(2)

Donuts: The circles with a difference

152

(1)

Revision clouds on the horizon

153

(2)

Scoring Points

155

(4)

Edit for Credit

159

(40)

Commanding and Selecting

159

(2)

Command-first editing

160

(1)

Selection-first editing

160

(1)

Choosing an editing style

160

(1)

Grab It

161

(3)

One-by-one selection

161

(1)

Selection boxes left and right

162

(2)

Perfecting Selecting

164

(3)

Ready, Get Set, Edit!

167

(21)

The big three: Move, Copy, and Stretch

169

(8)

More manipulations

177

(5)

Slicing, dicing, and splicing

182

(6)

Get a Grip

188

(11)

About grips

188

(1)

A gripping example

189

(3)

Move it!

192

(1)

Copy, or a kinder, gentler Move

193

(1)

A warm-up Stretch

194

(5)

A Zoom with a View

199

(12)

Zoom and Pan with Glass and Hand

199

(4)

Out of the frying pan

201

(1)

Time to zoom

202

(1)

A View by Any Other Name

203

(2)

Looking Around in Layout Land

205

(3)

Degenerating and Regenerating

208

(3)

Part III: If Drawings Could Talk

211

(90)

Text with Character

213

(26)

Getting Ready to Write

214

(7)

Simply stylish text

214

(3)

Taking your text to new heights

217

(3)

One line or two?

220

(1)

Your text will be justified

221

(1)

Using the Same Old Line

221

(3)

Saying More in Multiline Text

224

(8)

Making it with mText

224

(3)

It slices, it dices . . .

227

(2)

Doing a number on your mText Lists

229

(3)

Modifying mText

232

(1)

Gather 'Round the Tables

232

(4)

Tables have style, too

233

(1)

Creating and editing tables

234

(2)

Checking Out Your Spelling

236

(3)

Entering New Dimensions

239

(26)

Discovering New Dimensions

241

(4)

Anatomy of a dimension

241

(2)

A field guide to dimensions

243

(1)

Dimension associativity

244

(1)

Pulling out your dimension tools

244

(1)

Doing Dimensions with Style(s)

245

(8)

Borrowing existing dimension styles

245

(1)

Creating and managing dimension styles

246

(3)

Adjusting style settings

249

(4)

Drawing Dimensions

253

(5)

Lining up some linear dimensions

254

(2)

Drawing other kinds of dimensions

256

(1)

Trans-spatial dimensioning

257

(1)

Editing Dimensions

258

(2)

Editing dimension geometry

258

(1)

Editing dimension text

259

(1)

Controlling and editing dimension associativity

259

(1)

Pointy-Headed Leaders

260

(5)

Down the Hatch

265

(10)

Hatch . . . Hatch . . . Hatchoo

266

(2)

Pushing the Boundary (of) Hatch

268

(6)

Hatch from scratch

269

(1)

Getting it right: Hatch angle and scale

270

(2)

Do fence me in: Defining hatch boundaries

272

(1)

Hatching that knows its place

273

(1)

Have palette, will hatch

274

(1)

Editing Hatch Objects

274

(1)

The Plot Thickens

275

(26)

You Say Printing, I Say Plotting

275

(3)

Get with the system

276

(1)

Configure it out

277

(1)

A Simple Plot

278

(6)

Plotting success in 16 steps

278

(4)

Preview one, two

282

(1)

Instead of fit, scale it

283

(1)

Plotting the Layout of the Land

284

(3)

About paper space layouts and plotting

284

(1)

The path to paper space layout plotting success

285

(2)

Plotting Lineweights and Colors

287

(8)

Plotting with style

287

(4)

Plotting through thick and thin

291

(3)

Plotting in color

294

(1)

It's a (Page) Setup!

295

(2)

Continuing the Plot Dialog

297

(2)

Troubles with Plotting

299

(2)

Part IV: Share and Share Alike

301

(78)

Playing Blocks and Rasteroids

303

(32)

Rocking with Blocks

304

(21)

Creating block definitions

306

(4)

Inserting blocks

310

(2)

Attributes: Fill-in-the-blank blocks

312

(5)

Exploding blocks

317

(1)

Theme and variations: Dynamic blocks

318

(7)

Going External

325

(6)

Becoming attached to your xrefs

326

(2)

Layer-palooza

328

(1)

Creating and editing an external reference file

328

(1)

Forging an xref path

328

(2)

Managing xrefs

330

(1)

Blocks, Xrefs, and Drawing Organization

331

(1)

Mastering the Raster

332

(3)

Attaching an image

333

(1)

Managing your image

334

(1)

Sheet Sets without Regrets

335

(16)

Taming Sheet Sets

336

(2)

Using an Existing Sheet Set

338

(1)

The Sheet Set Setup

339

(2)

Getting Your Sheets Together

341

(6)

Adding existing sheets to a set

341

(1)

Sheet subsets

342

(1)

Creating new sheets for a set

343

(1)

Assembling sheet views from resource drawings

344

(3)

Making an Automatic Sheet List

347

(4)

CAD Standards Rule

351

(10)

Why CAD Standards?

352

(1)

Which CAD Standards?

353

(2)

What Needs to Be Standardized?

355

(3)

Plotting

355

(1)

Layers

356

(1)

Other stuff

357

(1)

Cool Standards Tools

358

(3)

Drawing on the Internet

361

(18)

The Internet and AutoCAD: An Overview

362

(2)

Sending Strategies

364

(7)

Send it with ETRANSMIT

365

(1)

Rapid eTransmit

366

(2)

Transmitting multiple drawings

368

(1)

FTP for you and me

368

(1)

Bad reception?

369

(1)

Help from the Reference Manager

370

(1)

Drawing Web Format --- Not Just for the Web

371

(6)

All about DWF

372

(1)

ePlot, not replot

372

(1)

Making DWFs with ePlot

373

(2)

Making DWFs (or Plots) with Publish

375

(1)

Hand-y objects

376

(1)

Autodesk DWF Viewer

377

(1)

The Drawing Protection Racket

377

(2)

Part V: The Part of Tens

379

(16)

Ten Ways to Do No Harm

381

(4)

Be Precise

381

(1)

Control Properties by Layer

381

(1)

Know Your Drawing Scale Factor

382

(1)

Know Your Space

382

(1)

Explode with Care

382

(1)

Don't Cram Your Geometry

382

(1)

Freeze Instead of Erase

383

(1)

Use CAD Standards

383

(1)

Save Drawings Regularly

383

(1)

Back Up Drawings Regularly

384

(1)

Ten Ways to Swap Drawing Data with Other People and Programs

385

(10)

DWG

386

(2)

DXF

388

(1)

DWF

388

(1)

PDF

388

(1)

WMF

389

(1)

BMP, JPEG, TIFF, and Other Raster Formats

390

(1)

Windows Clipboard

391

(1)

OLE

391

(2)

Screen Capture

393

(1)

TXT and RTF

394

(1)

Index

395

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