| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, phot |
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- For dummies |
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--For dummies.
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| Contents |
AutoCAD 2013 For Dummies; About the Authors; Dedication; Authors' Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Introduction; What's Not (And What Is) in This Book; Who Do We Think You Are?; How This Book Is Organized; Icons Used in This Book; A Few Conventions -- Just in Case; Where to Go from Here; Part I: AutoCAD 101; Chapter 1: Introducing AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT; Why AutoCAD?; The Importance of Being DWG; Seeing the LT; Checking System Requirements; Suddenly, It's 2013!; Chapter 2: Le Tour de AutoCAD 2013; AutoCAD Does Windows (And Office); And They're Off: AutoCAD's Opening Screens |
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Getting with the Program Fun with F1; Chapter 3: A Lap around the CAD Track; A Simple Setup; Drawing a (Base) Plate; Getting a Closer Look with Zoom and Pan; Modifying to Make It Merrier; Following the Plot; Chapter 4: Setup for Success; A Setup Roadmap; A Template for Success; Making the Most of Model Space; Making Templates Your Own; Chapter 5: Planning for Paper; Setting Up a Layout in Paper Space; About Paper Space Layouts and Plotting; Part II: Let There Be Lines; Chapter 6: Manage Your Properties; Managing Your Properties; Using Named Objects |
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Chapter 7: Preciseliness Is Next to CADliness Controlling Your Precision; Other Practical Precision Procedures; Chapter 8: Along the Straight and Narrow; Introducing the AutoCAD Drawing Commands; The Straight and Narrow: Lines, Polylines, and Polygons; Chapter 9: Dangerous Curves Ahead; (Throwing) Curves; Scoring Points; Chapter 10: Get a Grip on Object Selection; Commanding and Selecting; Grab It; Perfecting Selecting; AutoCAD Groupies; Object Selection: Now You See It . . .; Get a Grip; Chapter 11: Edit for Credit; Your AutoCAD Toolkit; The Big Three: Move, Copy, and Stretch |
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More Manipulations Slicing, Dicing, and Splicing; When Editing Goes Bad; Chapter 12: A Zoom with a View; Zoom and Pan with Glass and Hand; A View by Any Other Name . . .; Looking Around in Layout Land; Degenerating and Regenerating; Part III: If Drawings Could Talk; Chapter 13: Text with Character; Getting Ready to Write; Using the Same Old Line; Turning On Your Annotative Objects; Saying More in Multiline Text; Gather Round the Tables; Take Me to Your Leader; Chapter 14: Entering New Dimensions; How Do You Measure Up?; A Field Guide to Dimensions; The Latest Styles in Dimensioning |
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Size Matters Editing Dimensions; Chapter 15: Down the Hatch!; Batten Down the Hatches!; Don't Count Your Hatches. . .; Size Matters!; Pushing the Boundary (Of) Hatch; Editing Hatch Objects; Chapter 16: The Plot Thickens; You Say Printing, We Say Plotting; The Plot Quickens; Plotting the Layout of the Land; Plotting Lineweights and Colors; It's a (Page) Setup!; Continuing the Plot Dialog; The Plot Sickens; Part IV: Advancing with AutoCAD; Chapter 17: The ABCs of Blocks; Rocking with Blocks; Creating Block Definitions; Inserting Blocks; Attributes: Fill-in-the-Blank Blocks; Exploding Blocks |
| Summary |
Bring your design vision to life with this full-color guide to AutoCAD 2013!Used by everyone from engineers and architects to interior designers and draftspeople, AutoCAD 2013 is the world's leading 2D and 3D technical drawing program. But, with so many options and features available, finding your way around AutoCAD can be a challenge, even for experienced CAD professionals. AutoCAD 2013 For Dummies is here to help. You'll learn to build a solid foundation for all your projects, use standard CAD techniques, get familiar with new tools and features, and start sharing your models and |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Purging Unused Block Definitions |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
AutoCAD -- Amateurs' manuals
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AutoCAD fast |
| Subject |
COMPUTERS -- CAD-CAM.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Byrnes, David, 1947-
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| ISBN |
9781118333525 |
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1118333527 |
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9781118392171 |
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1118392175 |
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