Table of Contents PART I INTRODUCTION TO CORELCAD.... 1 1 Introducing CorelCAD.... 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.... 6 Application Programming Interfaces.... 6 Platform....6 Language Support.... 6 Demo Version.... 6 2 A Quick Tour through CorelCAD.... 9 Starting CorelCAD.... 9 The CorelCAD Window....11 iii
iv Inside CorelCAD Basic User Interface Tour.... 15 The Crosshair Cursor and Other Cursors....15 The Menu Bar....16 Full Screen Editing....17 The Command Window...18 Palettes....21 Tool Matrix....24 Turning Off the CS Icon...25 Other UI Elements....25 Online Help... 25 Exiting CorelCAD.... 27 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.... 34 Cylindrical Coordinates... 35 Spherical Coordinates.... 35 Point Filters....35 Mouse Input.... 35 Direct Distance Entry....36 Status Bar....36 Coordinates... 36 Snap Mode.... 37 Grid Mode.... 38 Ortho Mode.... 38 Polar Mode.... 38 ESnap Mode.... 39
Contents v 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 AutoCAD Command Compatibility.... 46 PART II 2D ARCHITECTURAL DRAFTING.... 47 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....55 Limiting the Drawing Boundary....57 Setting the Snap and Grid....57 Snap Spacing.... 58 Grid Spacing.... 59 Seeing the Entire Drawing....60 Adding Layers.... 61 Naming Layers....63 Automatic Backups....67 Summary... 68
vi Inside CorelCAD 5 Drawing Walls.... 69 Bringing Back the Office Drawing.... 69 Drawing Walls.... 71 Drawing Lines with Absolute Coordinates....71 Drawing Lines with Relative Coordinates....73 Using Entity Snaps....77 Drawing Rectangles....78 Drawing PolyLines....82 Drawing Internal Walls.... 86 Changing Layers Quickly....86 Drawing Walls with RichLines....87 Placing RichLines... 87 Zooming In and Out.... 89 Defining RichLine Styles.... 89 Erasing Entities.... 91 Oops! Unerasing Entities.... 92 Replacing RichLines.... 92 Thickening Walls... 94 Changing the Lineweight....94 Widening Polylines...95 Offsetting Lines....97 Trimming Lines.... 99 Summary... 101 6 Printing Drawings.... 103 Draft Prints...105 Printing the Office Drawing Manually...107 Printer/Plotter Options....107 Paper Size Option...109 Print Scale Options....109 Print Range Options....110 Other Options...................................................... 112 Additional Options....113 Printing the Office Drawing, Again....116
Contents vii Previewing the Print.... 117 Assigning Print Styles.... 118 Creating Print Styles....121 Applying Print Styles....123 Summary... 126 7 Adding Symbols... 127 Drawing a Desk Symbol.... 127 Drawing a Unit-size Desk...129 Converting Symbols Into Blocks....130 Inserting Blocks into Drawings....134 Chair Block................................................ 136 Rounding Corners....138 Arms and Backs....140 Making Window and Door Blocks...143 Drawing Door Symbols....145 Placing Furnishings.... 148 Sourcing Blocks from the Internet.... 152 Source of Blocks from Web Sites....152 Downloading and Inserting Blocks....155 Downloading Blocks....155 Inserting Downloaded Blocks...160 Extracting Blocks From Drawings... 164 Export Block...164 Summary... 165 8 Text and Attributes.... 167 Placing Simple Text... 169 Settings Text Styles....172 Editing Text...175 Placing Paragraph Text...177 Modifying Paragraph Text....178
viii Inside CorelCAD Facilities Management.... 180 Stage 1: Defining Attributes....181 Stage 2: Adding Attributes to Blocks....185 Editing Attribute Data....187 Stage 3: Extracting Attributes....187 Creating the Template File....188 Extracting the Block and Attribute Data....188 Opening the Data in a Spreadsheet....189 Summary... 190 9 Placing Dimensions.... 191 Linear Dimensions.... 193 Horizontal Dimensions....194 Vertical Dimensions....194 Dimension Scale.................................................... 196 Dimensioning Entities....197 Parallel Dimensioning....198 Continued Dimensions....198 Baseline Dimensions....201 Radial Dimensions.... 201 Diameter Dimensions....202 Modifying Dimension Styles... 203 Summary... 205 Dimension Style Settings in CorelCAD....207
Contents ix PART III 2D & 3D MECHANICAL DESIGN.... 209 10 Scan and Trace.... 211 Importing Scanned Images.... 213 About Path Types....215 Examining the Attached Image....216 Rotating Entities....217 Scaling Entities....220 Tracing Over Scanned Images.... 222 Layers and Rectangles....222 Drawing the Side View....222 Drawing the Front View....225 Chamfering Entities....228 Drawing Linestyles....232 Dual Dimensioning.... 236 Summary... 237 11 Isometric Drafting.... 239 Setting Up an Isometric Template.... 241 Isometric Text Styles....244 Isometric Dimension Styles....247 Drawing in Isometric Mode.... 249 Drawing Isometric Boxes....249 Drawing Irregular Boxes....252 Placing Isometric Text.... 257 Placing Isometric Dimensions....258 Summary... 261
x Inside CorelCAD 12 Solid Modeling... 263 Drawing 3D Solid Primitives... 265 Viewing in 3D...266 Adding More Solids....268 Extruding 2D Objects to Create Solids....270 Drawing Cylinders....273 Applying Boolean Operations.... 274 Subtracting Solids....274 Joining Solids....276 Analyzing Solid Models.... 277 Summary... 278 13 Multiple Viewports, Multiple Drawings.. 279 Multiple Viewports.... 281 Sheets....283 Creating Additional Viewports....285 Attaching Multiple Drawings.... 289 Summary... 293
Contents xi PART IV APPENDICES.... 295 A Alphabetical Command Summary... 297 B Command Aliases... 309 Aliases Sorted by CorelCAD Command Name.... 310 Aliases Sorted by Alias Name.... 315 C Keyboard Shortcuts... 325 D Button Clicks & Double Clicks.... 327 Mouse Buttons.... 328 Double Click Actions.... 329