Table of Contents. Templates to download. Configuring your system Customizing your wheel mouse System Requirements

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1 Table of Contents Introduction About this book Templates to download About the Author Configuring your system Customizing your wheel mouse System Requirements Intro-1 Intro-1 Intro-1 Intro-2 Intro-8 Intro-9 Lesson 1 Display Multiple Drawings 1-2 How to configure AutoCAD to display Multiple Drawings 1-2 Warm up drawings 1-4 1A, 1B, 1C 1-5 Review Plotting from Model Space 1-8 Lesson 2 Customizing your Workspace 2-2 Creating a Workspace 2-3 Creating a Ribbon tab 2-5 Add a Ribbon Panel to a tab 2-8 Create a New Ribbon panel 2-10 Add a command to a Ribbon panel 2-11 Customize Quick Access Toolbar 2-12 Select a Workspace 2-13 Delete a Workspace 2-14 Export a Workspace 2-15 Import a Workspace 2-16 Customize the Status Bar 2-17 Drawing Status Bar 2-17 Model / Layout tabs 2-17 Lesson 3 Master Decimal Setup 3A - Create a Master Decimal Setup Template 3-2 3B - Create a Page Setup for 8-1/2 X 11 sheet C - Create a Border and Title Block D - Create a Viewport E Plotting from Layout tab 3-17 v

2 Lesson 4 Master Feet and Inches Setup 4A - Create a Feet-Inches Setup Template 4-2 4B - Create a Page setup for 8-1/2 X 11 sheet 4-6 4C - Create a Border and Title Block 4-9 4D - Create a Viewport E - Plotting from Layout tab F Create a New Dimension Style 4-14 Lesson 5 Create a Table 5-2 Insert a Table 5-6 Insert a Block into a Table Cell 5-7 Insert a Formula into a Table Cell 5-8 Modify an existing Table 5-10 Modify using grips 5-11 AutoFill grip 5-12 Table Breaking 5-14 Create a Field 5-15 Update a Field 5-16 Editing Fields 5-17 Add a Field to a Table Cell A Create a Table B Insert a Table C Modify an existing Table D Add Fields to an existing Table E Update a Field F AutoFill G Table Breaking 5-28 Lesson 6 Isometric drawings 6-2 Isometric snap and grid 6-2 Isoplanes 6-2 Isometric Ellipse 6-3 6A - Isometric Assembly 6-4 6B - Isometric Object 6-5 6C - Abstract House 6-6 Lesson 7 Copy, Clip and Cut 7-2 Paste 7-3 Isometric text 7-5 Dimensioning an isometric drawing (Oblique) 7-6 7A - Oblique dimensioning-mechanical 7-7 7B Oblique dimensioning-architectural 7-8 7C - Isometric Text 7-9 vi

3 Lesson 8 Block 8-2 Creating-Review 8-2 Annotative 8-5 Inserting-Review 8-6 Attributes 8-7 Creating 8-7 8A Assigning Attributes to a Block B - Assigning Attributes to Multiple Blocks 8-15 Lesson 9 Editing Attributes 9-2 Extract Data from Block Attributes 9-6 Exercise 9A Extracting Attributes to an AutoCAD table B Extracting Attributes to an External File 9-13 Lesson 10 DesignCenter 10-2 Drag and Drop Blocks 10-4 Drag and Drop Layouts, Text Styles, etc AutoSeek 10-6 Exercise 10A---Inserting Blocks from the Design Center B--- Borrowing settings from another drawing 10-9 Lesson 11 External Referenced drawings (XREF) 11-2 Inserting 11-3 Palette 11-5 Xbind 11-6 Clipping an External Referenced drawing 11-8 Clipping options 11-9 Edit an External Referenced drawing Convert an object to a Viewport Creating Multiple Viewports and Multiple Xrefs Creating Multiple Viewports- A quick method A - Xref Multiple Drawings B Creating Multi-scaled views C Clipping an External Reference vii

4 Lesson 12 Ordinate dimensioning 12-2 Creating 12-3 Jog 12-4 Qdim and ordinate 12-5 Alternate units 12-6 Tolerances 12-7 Geometric tolerances 12-9 Geometric tolerances and Qleader Datum feature symbol Datum triangle Typing Geometric Symbols A - Ordinate dimensioning B - Dual dimensioning C - Deviation & Symmetrical D - Limits E - Geometric tolerances Lesson 13 Introduction to 3D 13-2 Enter the AutoCAD 3D Workspace 13-3 Tool Palette Display 13-4 Viewing a 3D model 13-5 ViewCube D Orbit D Views Visual Styles Wireframe Surface model Solid model A - Create a Wireframe Model B - Create a Surface Model Lesson 14 Drawing basic geometric shapes A Create 4 Solid Boxes B Create 3 solid Cylinders C Create 2 solid Cones D Create 3 solid Wedges E Create a solid Sphere F Create 3 solid Torus G - Create 2 solid Pyramids viii

5 Lesson 15 Configuring options for 3D 15-2 Understanding the UCS 15-3 Moving the UCS 15-4 Rotating the UCS 15-6 New direction for Z axis 15-7 Boolean Operations 15-8 Union 15-8 Subtract 15-9 Intersection A Subtract B Union and Subtract C Assembling 3D solids Lesson 16 Extrude 16-2 Region 16-5 Presspull 16-6 Polysolid 16-7 DELOBJ system variable 16-8 Plan View A Extrude B Extrude with taper C Extrude along a Path D Extrude a Region E Extrude or Presspull a Region Lesson 17 3D Operations D Mirror D Rotate D Align D Array A 3D Mirror B 3D Rotate C 3D Align D 2D Array E 3D Array Rectangular F 3D Array Polar ix

6 Lesson 18 3D Solids 18-2 Stretch using grips 18-2 Move using grips 18-4 Constrain movement A - Create a Cube B Presspull or grips C Add Cylinder and subtract D Grips or 3D Move E Properties, Grips or 3D offset F - Grips or 3D Delete Lesson 19 Revolve 19-2 Slice 19-3 Section 19-4 Section Plane 19-5 Sweep 19-8 Helix A Revolve B Slice C Section D Create 2D and 3D Section E Sweep F Helix G Solid Helix Lesson 20 Plotting Multiple views 20-2 More Visual Styles 20-4 Shell A Display a shaded view B - Shell 20-7 PROJECTS Architectural Electro-mechanical Mechanical APPENDICES Appendix A. Add a Printer / Plotter Appendix B. Metric Conversion Tables INDEX x