Autocad Reference Manual

CHAPTER 1:INTRODUCTION TO AUTOCAD, Overview, Open Architecture. CHAPTER 2:GETTING STARTED, Begining an Autocad Session, The Autocad Screen, Creating or Opening a Drawing, Exiting Autocad-Quitting and Ending, Command Entry, Data Entry, Entity Selection. CHAPTER 3:THE AUTOCAD DRAWING AND INTERFACE, The AutoCad Drawing, Viewing the Drawing,Editing the Drawing, The autocad Interface, Using Dialouge Boxes, The Standard file Dialogue Box, The Standard file Dialouge Box, The Standard Color Dialouge Box, UNDO and Transparent Commands. CHAPTER 4:UTILITY COMMANDS AND SERVICES, Help Command-User Assistance NEW command-Beginning a New Drawing, OPENCommand-Opening an Existing Drawing, Saving Your Work, Exiting autocad CONFIG Command-Reconfiguring Autocad, ABOUT Command-Informational Message, STATUS Command, LIMITS Command, Units Format Control, Copying Paper Drawing-Tablet Mode, TABLET Command, RENIT Command-Reinitialization, MENU Command, COMPILE Command-Compiling Shape/font files, FILES Command-DirectoryAccess, AUDIT Command-Examining a Drawing, RECOVER Command-Recovering a Drawing, MULTIPLE Command Modifer, TIME Command, SETVAR Command-Access to system Variables, Graphics Acceleration, Managing Named Objects, Transparent Commands, File Locking. CHAPTER 5:ENTITY DRAW COMMANDS, LINE Command, Lie undo, Closing Polygons,POINT Command, CIRCLE Command, ARC Command, TRACE Command, Polylines, SKETCH Command-freehand Drawing, Effect of Other Modes, Protecting Sketch accuracy, SOLID Command, 3D FACE Command, 3D Polygon Meshes, Text, Shapes. CHAPTER 6:EDIT AND INQUIRY COMMANDS, Before You Begin, Editing With Grips, Erasing, Copying and Moving,Change, Cuts and constructions, Polyline, Mesh, and Block Editing, Undoing What You've Done, Inquiry Commands. CHAPTER 7:DISPLAY CONTROLS, Model Space and Paper Space, viewports, Regeneration, REDRAW, Virtual Screen, Fast Zoom Mode, Zoom command, Pan Command, VIEW Command-Named Views, Transparent Zoom/PAN/VIEW, 3D View Control, Managing Multiple Viewports,switching Between Model Space and Paper. CHAPTER 8: ENTITY PROPERTIES Basic conseps, properties of layers, The current properties, initial conditions,plotting considerations, Layer/Linetype renaming and Deletion, DDLMODES and LAYER Commands-layer control, VPLAYER Command,DDEMODES Command, DDEMODES Command-Entity Creation Modes Dialouges Box, COLOR Command-Set Entity Color, LINETYPE Command,LTSCALE Command, ELEV Command-Set current Elevation and Thickness, HANDLES Command-Entity Handle Control. CHAPTER 9: DRAWING Aids, Isometric Drawing, DDRMODES Command-Drawing Aids Dialouges Box, SNAPCommand,GRID Command, ORTHO Command, ISOPLANE Command, User Coordinate Systems, Object Sbap-Geometric Construction, X/Y/Z Point Filters, Status Lines, Mode Toggle Control Keys. CHAPTER 10: BLOKS, ATTRIBUTES, AND EXTERNAL REFERENCES, Blocks, Attributes, External References. CHAPTER 11:DIMENSIONING, Associative Dimensioning, DIM and DIM Commands, Using Styles and Variables to Control Dimensions, Dimension Syte Commands, Dimension Editing Command, Dimensioning Variables, Dimesioning Based on Entities, Alternate Units Dimensioning, General Prefix and Suffix Facility, Arrow Blocks, Dimension Styles-from the Dim:prompt, Editing Dimensioning. CHAPTER 12: CROSSHACTING AND PATTERN FILLING, Crosshatching and Pattern Filling, BHATCH Command-Boundry Hatching, Tips and Techniques, BPOLY Command-Creating a Polyline Boundry, Hatching System Variables. CHAPTER 13:PLOOTING The CMDDIA System Variable, The Plot Configuration Parameters Flie and 256-colorPlooting, PLOT Command, Saving Plot Specifications, Other Plooting Parameters, Readying the Plooter, Single-Prot Plotting, Plotting Efficiently to a Printer, Command Line Usage, Freeplotting-Using Autocad to Plot, The PLOTTER and PLOTID system Variables, CHAPTER 14: IMAGE IMPORT/EXPORT, PostScrip Support, Slide Shows, FILMROLL Command-Produce File for AtoShade.

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