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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
analytic surfaces are separated or by using the BREP command. See also
procedural surface and NURBS surface.
geometric constraint
Rules that define the geometric relationships of objects (or points of objects)
elements and control how an object can change shape or size.
Geometric constraints are coincident, collinear, concentric, equal, fix,
horizontal, parallel, perpendicular, tangent, and vertical.
geometry
All graphical objects such as lines, circles, arcs, polylines, and dimensions.
Nongraphical objects, such as linetypes, lineweights, text styles, and layers
are not considered geometry. See also named object.
gizmo
A tool that permits you to manipulate a 3D object uniformly or along a
specified axis or plane. Examples of gizmos include the 3D Move, 3D Rotate,
and 3D Scale gizmos. They are displayed when you select a 3D object.
global illumination
An indirect illumination technique that allows for effects such as color
bleeding. As light hits a colored object in the model, photons bounce to
adjacent objects and tint them with the color of the original object.
Gooch shading
A type of shading that uses a transition from cool to warm colors rather than
from dark to light.
graphics area
See drawing area.
graphics window
See AutoCAD for Mac window and drawing area.
grid
An area covered with regularly spaced dots or lines to aid drawing. The grid
spacing is adjustable. The grid dots are never plotted. See also grid limits.
(GRID)
grid limits
The user-defined rectangular boundary of the drawing area covered by dots
when the grid is turned on. Also called drawing limits. (LIMITS)
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