AutoCAD workbook for architects and engineers / Shannon R. Kyles.

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This practical step-by-step guide - designed for use at your computer - gives clear, compact instructions and self-test exercises to help you learn 2-D drawing using AutoCAD. The text is written for use on all AutoCAD releases from 2000 to 2008.

Computer-aided drawing is a skill that every student in architecture, engineering, the trades and construction must learn - and ideally at the computer, actually drawing things. AutoCAD is the most widely used package in the industry but existing teaching books tend to be too wordy and focus more on technical wizardry than on how to deliver actual finished drawings using industry drafting protocols.AutoCAD Workbook gives you the skills you need for the full range of drawing types using a wide variety of commands and sequences. Each chapter - or teaching module - contains a brief introduction to the commands, explaining exactly how each one can be used, and plenty of exercises to demonstrate how to produce everything from working drawings to presentation drawings; and orthographic projection to pictorial views. Examples include residential and commercial buildings for architects and designers; steel and concrete details for civil and structural engineering; mechanical parts and assemblies for mechanical engineering; and millwork and cabinet-making for woodworking applications.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 1 3D and Views
• Generating 3D Models
• Viewpoints or VPORTS
• Orientating Views Within VPORTS
• 3D Icons
• Entering X, Y and Z Coordinates
• Exercise
• 2 User Coordinate System
• The UCS Command
• UCS World
• Saving and Restoring UCS
• The UCS Icon
• The UCS and Views
• Exercise
• 3 3DFACE, Hide, and Shade with 3D Autotracking
• Generating 3D Images
• 3DFACE
• The EDGE Command
• The HIDE Command
• The SHADE Command
• Rendering
• Auto Tracking
• Exercises
• 4 Thickness, ELEVation, and 3DShapes
• The ELEVation Command
• The Thickness Command
• Changing Existing ELEVation and Thickness
• VPOINT, VPORTS and VIEW
• 3D Surfaces
• Exercises
• 5 Surfacing
• Sufaces in a CAD Environment
• Surface Display
• 3D Polyline Meshes
• Rulesurf
• Surface of Revolution or REVSURF
• Tabulated Surfaces or TABSURF
• Edge Surfaces or EDGESURF
• Exercises
• 6 Three-Dimensional Solids
• What Are Solids?
• Creating Solid Objects
• Modifying Solid Objects
• Filleting and Chamfering Solids
• Exercises
• 7 Revolving, Extruding and Mass Properties of 3D Solids
• The REVOLVE Command
• The EXTRUDE Command
• The SECTION Command
• The SLICE Command
• Mass Properties
• The MASSPORP Command
• Exercises
• 8 Editing Solids and 3D Objects
• The 3DARRAY Command
• The MIRROR3D Command
• The ROTATE3D Command
• MOVE and COPY in 3D
• Exercises
• 9 Preparing 3D Objects for Drawings
• AutoCAD's Model Space
• Using DVIEW Options
• 3D Orbit
• 3D Dimensioning
• Exercises
• 10 Paper Space for 2 Dimensional Drawings
• Paper Space
• Accessing Paper Sapce
• Scaling Views Within a Drawing
• LAYERs within Viewports
• The VPLAYER Command
• Dimensioning in Paper Space
• AutoCAD's Template Drawings
• Exercises
• 11 Paper Space, Model Space and 3D Drawings
• Model Space and Paper Space
• Paper Space
• Tilemode
• MVIEW
• Entering the Title Block
• Scaling Views Within a Drawing
• Locking the Zoom Factor Within a Viewport
• Dimensioning with the views
• Exercises
• 12 Creating Attributes
• Introduction
• Attributes for Title Blocks and Notations
• Defining the Attributes
• Editing Attribute Definitions
• Displaying Attributes
• Creating Attributes for Data Extraction
• Exercises
• 13 Editing and Extracting Attributes
• Editing Attributes Attached to Blocks
• Editing Attributes
• Data Extraction
• Exercises
• 14 POINTS, DIVIDE, MEASURE, INQUIRY, and Trouble Shooting
• Point Display or PDMODE Options
• Using DIVIDA and MEASURE
• Inquiry Commands
• Exercises
• 15 Advanced Blocking, Dynamic Blocks, and Xrefs
• Advanced Blocking
• Xrefs or External Reference Files
• The XBIND Command
• Dynamic Blocks
• Exercises

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