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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
shaded viewports
plotting options 691, 699, 700, 701
resolution settings 700
Shaded visual style 68
Shaded with Edges visual style 68
shades (colors) 571
Shades of Gray visual style 68
shadows
hardware acceleration and 75
lighting and 781, 799
visual styles 75
sharing drawings 770
shelling solids 481
SHX fonts 609, 610, 611, 615
SI lighting units 780
silhouette edges 77
single-line text
creating 582
editing 616
height 613
obliquing angle 614
orientation 615
styles 606
sketching freehand lines 200
Sketchy visual style 68
sky
lighting overview 777
natural lighting and 780
slanted text 614
slicing solids 391
smooth lighting 72
smooth rendering 815
smoothing
mesh objects 503, 507, 519
tessellation 409
snapping (object snaps) 167
software acceleration 79
solid fills
creating 567, 571
defined 565
overlapping objects 144
PostScript rendering 756
turning off 142
solid primitives
about 373
boxes 376
cones 377
creating 375
cylinders 379
pyramids 381
tori 382
wedges 376
solids
3D solids 386
composite solids 390
converting objects to 361
converting to meshes 428
creating 373
extruding 364
grips 458
interferences 392
lofting 369
modifying 440
polysolids 384
revolving 372
separating into original shapes 480
solid modeling 355
solid primitives 375
sweeping 367
types of 361
sorting
layers 124
source vectors for distant lights 802
space-delimited format files (SDF) 347
spacing
dimension elements 631
dimensions 677
equal intervals 185
grid lines 173
previous release formats and 759
spatial indexes 739, 740
special characters
block attribute extraction files 347
bullets in lists 587
file names 54
filtering layers by 125
fractions 591
inserting 584
tolerance stacks 591
Unicode text 768
xref symbols 735
spelling check 619
910 | Index