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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Get Information
- The User Interface
- Start and Save Drawings
- Control the Drawing Views
- Organize Drawings and Layouts
- Create and Modify Objects
- Control the Properties of Objects
- Use Precision Tools
- Use Coordinates and Coordinate Systems (UCS)
- Use Dynamic Input
- Snap to Locations on Objects (Object Snaps)
- Restrict Cursor Movement
- Combine or Offset Points and Coordinates
- Specify Distances
- Extract Geometric Information from Objects
- Use a Calculator
- Draw Geometric Objects
- Change Existing Objects
- Select Objects
- Correct Mistakes
- Erase Objects
- Cut, Copy, and Paste with the Clipboard
- Modify Objects
- Modify Complex Objects
- Add Constraints to Geometry
- Define and Reference Blocks
- Work with 3D Models
- Create 3D Models
- Overview of 3D Modeling
- Create Solids and Surfaces from Lines and Curves
- Create Solids
- Create Surfaces
- Create Meshes
- Create Wireframe Models
- Add 3D Thickness to Objects
- Modify 3D Models
- Create Sections and 2D Drawings from 3D Models
- Create 3D Models
- Annotate Drawings
- Work with Annotations
- Hatches, Fills, and Wipeouts
- Notes and Labels
- Tables
- Dimensions and Tolerances
- Understand Basic Concepts of Dimensioning
- Use Dimension Styles
- Set the Scale for Dimensions
- Create Dimensions
- Modify Existing Dimensions
- Add Geometric Tolerances
- Plot and Publish Drawings
- Specify Settings for Plotting
- Save Plot Settings as Named Page Setups
- Reuse Named Page Setups
- Specify Page Setup Settings
- Select a Printer or Plotter for a Layout
- Select a Paper Size for a Layout
- Determine the Drawing Orientation of a Layout
- Set the Plot Area of a Layout
- Adjust the Plot Offset of a Layout
- Set the Plot Scale for a Layout
- Set the Lineweight Scale for a Layout
- Select a Plot Style Table for a Layout
- Set Shaded Viewport and Plot Options for a Layout
- Print or Plot Drawings
- Overview of Plotting
- Use a Page Setup to Specify Plot Settings
- Select a Printer or Plotter
- Specify the Area to Plot
- Set Paper Size
- Position the Drawing on the Paper
- Control How Objects Are Plotted
- Preview a Plot
- Plot Files to Other Formats
- Specify Settings for Plotting
- Share Data Between Files
- Reference Other Drawing Files
- Work with Data in Other Formats
- Collaborate with Others
- Render Drawings
- Draw 2D Isometric Views
- Add Lighting to Your Model
- Materials and Textures
- Render 3D Objects for Realism
- Glossary
- Index
paper space and 217
preset systems 216
restoring 217
saving 217
UCS icon 221
workplanes 214
unbounded hatches 675, 694
unconstrained drawings 368
underconstrained drawings 368
undoing actions
correcting mistakes 307
layer changes 171
Unicode fonts 742
Unicode text 711, 930, 945
unions
3D solids 481
regions 289
separating into original shapes 585
units of measurement
about 54
coordinate unit types 200
dimensions 790, 792
model space 131
plot scale 866
unloaded raster images 918
unloading
raster images 921
xrefs 905
unlocking
layers 167
unreferenced linetypes 181
untrimming surfaces 596
unused layers 170
updating
annotations 659, 671
associative dimensions 771
block attributes 435
block definitions 432
block references 435
display 193
fields 735
xrefs 881, 890
URLs (Uniform Resource Locators)
opening drawings with 944
saving drawings to 944
user coordinate system (UCS) 210
V
validating
3D solids 586
surfaces 602
values
dimension values 792
suppressing zeros 796
text fields 733
variable block attributes 421
vector expressions 258
verifying constraints 379
versions of AutoCAD 931
vertex editing 580
vertical dimension text 788
vertical dimensions 804
vertical text 748
vertices
3D solid vertices 570
creases 621
deleting 581
modifying 580
multilines 365
redundant vertices 586
rendering 998
surface control vertices 600–601
video cards 105
ViewCube 111
viewpoints in 3D space 90, 110
viewports
aligning views in 154
annotations in 657–658
arranging 122, 125
backgrounds in 99
creating 121
current 124
drawing in 124
layer property overrides and 173
layers and 173
layout viewports 145
lighting modes 955
plot options 854, 867
plotting 870
rendering 1002
shadows in 100
UCSs and 216, 219
1076 | Index