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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Get Information
- The User Interface
- Tools in the Application Window
- Other Tool Locations
- Access the Classic Menu Bar
- Toolbars
- Status Bars
- Keytips
- The Command Line Window
- Shortcut Menus
- Tool Palettes
- DesignCenter
- Content Explorer
- Overview of Content Explorer
- Understand the Relationship between Content Explorer and Content Service
- Understand the Content Explorer Window
- Understand How Content Is Indexed
- Understand Watched Folders
- Manage Content Sources
- Basic Searching with Content Explorer
- Advanced Searching with Content Explorer
- Manage Saved Searches in Content Explorer
- Browse Folders with Content Explorer
- Filter Results in Content Explorer
- Sort and Group Results in Content Explorer
- Customize the View in Content Explorer
- Perform Tasks with Files in Content Explorer
- Perform Tasks with Objects in Content Explorer
- Streamline Searches with User-Created Properties in Content Explorer
- Troubleshooting Content Explorer
- Customize the Drawing Environment
- Start and Save Drawings
- Control the Drawing Views
- Organize Drawings and Layouts
- Create Single-View Drawings (Model Space)
- Create Multiple-View Drawing Layouts (Paper Space)
- Work with Sheets in a Sheet Set
- Create and Modify Objects
- Control the Properties of Objects
- Work with Object Properties
- Work with Layers
- Work with Colors
- Work with Linetypes
- Control Lineweights
- Control the Display Properties of Certain Objects
- Use Precision Tools
- 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
- Control the Properties of Objects
- Define and Reference Blocks
- Work with Blocks
- Create and Modify Blocks
- Add Behaviors to Blocks (Dynamic Blocks)
- Overview of Dynamic Blocks
- Quick Start to Creating Dynamic Blocks
- Create and Edit Dynamic Blocks
- Add Action Parameters to Dynamic Blocks
- Work with 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 and Publishing
- 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
- Other Ways to Create Page Setups
- 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 and Publishing
- Share Data Between Files
- Reference Other Drawing Files
- Link and Embed Data (OLE)
- Work with Data in Other Formats
- Convert Drawing File Formats
- Import Other File Formats
- Attach Files as Underlays
- Attach Raster Image Files
- Export Drawings to Other File Formats
- Use Drawings from Different Versions and Applications
- Access External Databases
- Collaborate with Others
- Protect and Sign Drawings
- Use the Internet for Collaboration
- Use Markups for Design Review
- Render Drawings
- Glossary
- Index
team collaboration 366
titles and tables of content 350
transmitting 361
updating 366
views 350
working without Sheet Set
Manager 368
sheets in drawing sets 1258
sheets in sheet sets
defined 337
layouts and 342
modifying 349
names and numbers 349
opening 349
page setups 361
properties 358
saving sheet selections 362
Sheet Set Manager 339
status 367
subsets 345
templates 342, 361
title sheets 350
views 350
working with 348
shortcut menus
about 53
commands 46
shortcuts
keytips 40
SHX fonts 1009, 1011, 1017
signatures, digital 1444
single-line text
creating 942
editing 1019
height 1014
obliquing angle 1015
orientation 1016
styles 1004
sketching freehand lines 564
slanted text 1015
snapping (object snaps) 485
software acceleration 178
solid fills
creating 896, 908
overlapping objects 451
turning off 447
sorting
found objects 128
layers 400
space-delimited format files (SDF) 785
spacing
dimension elements 1067
dimensions 1147
equal intervals 516
grid lines 494
previous release formats and 1426
spatial indexes 1321–1322
special characters
block attribute extraction files 785
bullets in lists 955
file names 221
filtering layers by 402
fractions 967
inserting 947
tolerance stacks 967
Unicode text 1474
wildcard characters 121
xref symbols 1283, 1314
spelling check 1028
spherical coordinates 477
spline-fit polylines
extending 681
trimming 681
splines
calculating geometric data for 524
control points 709
drawing 582
editing 709
extending 711
filleting 711
grips 637, 709
knots 710
modifying 601
offsetting 674
trimming 711
spreadsheets
accessing data from 1042
attribute extraction data files 786
squares 556, 601
stacked text (multiline text) 966
standard DesignCenter parts 93
standard grips 759, 838
Index | 1585