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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
- Work with the User Coordinate System (UCS)
- Enter Coordinates to Specify Points
- 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
- Create Objects
- Select and Modify Objects
- Select Objects
- Correct Mistakes
- Erase Objects
- Cut, Copy, and Paste with the Clipboard
- Modify 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 Drawings from 3D Models
- Create 3D Models
- Annotate Drawings
- Work with Annotations
- Overview of Annotations
- Scale Annotations
- Overview of Scaling Annotations
- Set Annotation Scale
- Create Annotative Objects
- Display Annotative Objects
- Add and Modify Scale Representations
- Set Orientation for 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
- Work with Annotations
- 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
- Publish Drawings
- 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
You cannot check interference for mesh objects. However, if you select mesh
objects, you can choose to convert them to a solid or surface object and
continue the operation.
During the checking operation, you can use the Interference Checking dialog
box to cycle through and zoom to interference objects. You can also specify
whether to delete the temporary objects that are created during interference
checking.
Methods for Checking Interference
You can check interference using the following methods:
Define one selection set. Check the interference of all the 3D solids
and surfaces in a single selection set.
Define two selection sets. Check the interference of the objects in the
first set of objects against the objects in the second selection set.
Individually specify solids that are nested within blocks or xrefs.
Individually select 3D solid or surface objects that are nested in blocks and
external references (xrefs) and compare them against other objects in the
selection set.
Create Surfaces
Create procedural surfaces and NURBS surfaces from curves or by combining
or extending existing surfaces.
Overview of Creating Surfaces
Surface modeling provides the ability to edit multiple surfaces as an associative
group or in a more free-form way.
In addition to 3D solid and mesh objects, AutoCAD for Mac offer two type of
surfaces: procedural and NURBS.
Procedural Surfaces can be associative, maintaining relationships with
other objects so that they can be manipulated as a group.
NURBS Surfaces are not associative. Instead, they have control vertices
that allow you to sculpt shapes in a more natural way.
Use procedural surfaces to take advantage of associative modeling, and use
NURBS surfaces to take advantage of sculpting with control vertices. The
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