Table of Contents Part I Introduction to CorelCAD 1 Introducing CorelCAD for Mac... 3 About CorelCAD... 3 Benefits of Using CorelCAD....4 Impressive Compatibility... 4 Familiar User Interface.... 4 Drafting Tools.... 5 Collaboration.... 5 Flexible Viewing.... 5 Organized Layouts.... 5 Solid Modeling.... 5 Application Programming Interfaces.... 6 Platform....6 Language Support.... 6 Demo Version.... 6 How The Mac Version of CorelCAD Differs from Windows... 7 The Application Menu... 7 Missing from CorelCAD for Macintosh............................ 8 Application Programming Interfaces.... 8 iii
iv Inside CorelCAD for Mac 2 A Quick Tour through CorelCAD.... 9 Starting CorelCAD.... 9 The CorelCAD Window....11 Basic User Interface Tour.... 15 The Crosshair Cursor and Other Cursors....15 The Menu Bar....16 Full Screen Editing....16 Keyboard Shortcuts.... 17 The Command Window...17 Palettes....21 Tool Matrix....24 Turning Off the CS Icon...26 Other UI Elements....26 Online Help... 26 Exiting CorelCAD.... 28 3 CAD Concepts.... 29 Vector Entities.... 29 Alternative Entity Specification....33 Specifying Coordinates... 33 Keyboard Input....33 Specifying Coordinates....34 2D Cartesian Coordinates... 34 3D Cartesian Coordinates... 34 Polar Coordinates.... 35 Cylindrical Coordinates... 35 Spherical Coordinates.... 35 Point Filters....35 Mouse Input.... 36 Direct Distance Entry....36 Status Bar....36 Coordinates... 36
Contents v Snap Mode.... 37 Grid Mode.... 38 Ortho Mode.... 38 Polar Mode.... 38 ESnap Mode.... 39 ETrack Mode.... 39 Selecting Entities....40 Grips Editing...40 Moving and Stretching with Grips... 41 Erasing with Grips.... 41 Selecting Multiple Entities....42 Selecting Multiple Entities by Rectangle... 42 Selecting Entities by Location....43 Selecting Entities by Properties....45 Command Compatibility with AutoCAD.... 46 Compatibility with CorelCAD for Windows....46 Macintosh Multi-touch Compatibility....46 Part II 2D Architectural Drafting 4 Starting New Drawings.... 49 Before You Begin.... 49 Preparing CorelCAD for Drawing....49 Starting CorelCAD With a New Drawing...51 Saving Drawings....51 Setting the Units....54 Limiting the Drawing Boundary....56 Setting the Snap and Grid....57 Snap Spacing.... 57 Grid Spacing.... 59 Turning Off the CCS Icon....60 Seeing the Entire Drawing....60
vi Inside CorelCAD for Mac Adding Layers.... 61 Naming Layers....61 Automatic Backups....68 Summary... 69 5 Drawing Walls.... 71 Bringing Back the Office Drawing.... 71 Drawing Walls.... 73 Drawing Lines with Absolute Coordinates....75 Drawing Lines with Relative Coordinates....76 Using Entity Snaps....79 Drawing Rectangles....81 Drawing PolyLines....84 Drawing Internal Walls.... 88 Changing Layers Quickly....88 Drawing Walls with RichLines....89 Placing RichLines.... 89 Zooming In and Out.... 91 Defining RichLine Styles.... 92 Erasing Entities.... 93 Oops! Unerasing Entities.... 94 Replacing RichLines.... 94 Thickening Walls... 96 Changing the Lineweight....96 Widening Polylines...97 Offsetting Lines....99 Trimming Lines....101 Summary... 103 6 Printing Drawings.... 105 Printing the Office Drawing.... 105 Draft Prints...107
Contents vii Presets Printing the Office Drawing Manually.... 108 Printer Options....109 Print Range Options...112 How to Create and Print a Named View....114 How to Print a Specified Window....115 Print Scale Options....115 How to Create a Custom Plot Scale....116 Print Offset...116 Print Style....117 Print Options....118 Export....118 How to Export Drawings as Raster and Vector Files....119 Saving Settings as Presets....120 How to Save Print Settings....121 OS X Options....121 Previewing Before Printing... 123 Using Page Layouts with Drawings... 126 How to Create Page Layouts....126 How to Borrow Page Layouts....130 Assigning Print Styles.... 132 Creating Print Styles....132 Applying Print Styles....134 All About Print Style Properties....136 Summary... 140 7 Adding Symbols... 141 Drawing a Desk Symbol.... 141 Drawing a Unit-size Desk...143 Converting Symbols Into Blocks....144 Inserting Blocks into Drawings....148 Chair Block................................................ 150 Rounding Corners....152 Arms and Backs....154
viii Inside CorelCAD for Mac Making Window and Door Blocks...157 Drawing Door Symbols....158 Placing Furnishings.... 162 Sourcing Blocks from the Internet.... 166 Source of Blocks from Web Sites....166 Downloading and Inserting Blocks....170 Downloading Blocks....170 Extracting Blocks From Drawings... 176 Export Block...176 Summary... 178 8 Text and Attributes.... 179 Placing Simple Text... 181 Settings Text Styles....184 Editing Text...186 Placing Paragraph Text...188 Modifying Paragraph Text....190 Facilities Management.... 192 Stage 1: Defining Attributes....193 Stage 2: Adding Attributes to Blocks....195 Editing Attribute Data...199 Stage 3: Extracting Attributes....199 Opening the Data in a Spreadsheet....200 Summary... 203 9 Placing Dimensions.... 205 Linear Dimensions.... 207 Horizontal Dimensions....207 Vertical Dimensions....208 Dimension Scale.................................................... 210 Dimensioning Entities....211 Parallel Dimensioning....212
Contents ix Continued Dimensions....213 Baseline Dimensions....215 Radial Dimensions.... 215 Diameter Dimensions....216 Modifying Dimension Styles... 217 Summary... 219 Dimension Style Settings in CorelCAD....220 Part III 3D Mechanical Design 10 Scan and Trace.... 225 Importing Scanned Images.... 227 About Path Types....230 Examining the Attached Image....231 Rotating Entities....232 Scaling Entities....235 Tracing Over Scanned Images.... 236 Layers and Rectangles....236 Drawing the Side View....237 Drawing the Front View....239 Chamfering Entities....243 Drawing Linestyles....246 Dual Dimensioning.... 250 Summary... 252 11 Isometric Drafting.... 253 Setting Up an Isometric Template.... 255 Isometric Text Styles....257 Isometric Dimension Styles....260
x Inside CorelCAD for Mac Drawing in Isometric Mode.... 262 Drawing Isometric Boxes....262 Drawing Irregular Boxes....265 Placing Isometric Text.... 270 Placing Isometric Dimensions....271 Summary... 274 12 Solid Modeling... 275 Drawing 3D Solid Primitives... 277 Viewing in 3D...278 Adding More Solids....280 Extruding 2D Objects to Create Solids....282 Drawing Cylinders....285 Applying Boolean Operations.... 286 Subtracting Solids....286 Joining Solids....288 Analyzing Solid Models.... 289 Summary... 290 13 Multiple Viewports, Multiple Drawings.. 291 Multiple Viewports.... 293 Sheets....296 Creating Additional Viewports....299 Attaching Multiple Drawings.... 302 Summary... 305
Contents xi Part IV Appendices A Alphabetical Command Summary... 309 B Command Aliases.... 321 Aliases Sorted by CorelCAD Command Name....322 Aliases Sorted by Alias Name....327 C Keyboard Shortcuts.... 338 D Button Clicks & Double Clicks.... 339 Mouse Buttons...340 Double Click Actions....341