AutoCAD for Windows Express

AutoCAD for Windows Express by Timothy J. McCarthy.

What is AutoCAD? AutoCAD is the world's most popular computer-aided drafting package for the personal computer (PC). It is a fully functional 2D and 3D CAD program. Full 3D wire frame representation was incorporated in the program with the launch of Release 10 in 1988. Release 11 brought additi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCarthy, Timothy J. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 1994.
Edition:1st ed. 1994.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Engineering design.
Computer-aided engineering.
Building—Superintendence.
Construction industry—Management.
Construction superintendence.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • What is AutoCAD?
  • The aims of the AutoCAD Express
  • The Express route through AutoCAD
  • Conventions used in the AutoCAD Express
  • The Windows environment
  • 2 Starting Autocad
  • Preparation
  • Creating a drawing
  • HELP!
  • Summary
  • 3 Cursor and Display Control
  • General
  • Layers
  • Cursor location
  • ZOOM and PAN
  • Keyboard toggles and transparent commands
  • Summary
  • 4 Drawing and Editing
  • General
  • Rubbing out and OOPS
  • The balloon drawing environment
  • Creating circles, arcs and ellipses
  • Adding text
  • Wide lines
  • Shading with patterns
  • Summary
  • 5 Constructive Editing
  • General
  • Drawing the arch
  • Editing a polyline with PEDIT
  • Moving objects
  • Copying
  • Altering objects’ characteristics
  • Mirror image
  • Multiple copies using ARRAY
  • Summary
  • 6 Super-Entities
  • General
  • Making a block
  • Inserting blocks
  • Global blocks
  • Making a library of useful symbols
  • Drawing the kitchen
  • Editing attributes
  • A simple bill of materials
  • Hints on using blocks
  • AutoCAD’s inquiry commands
  • Summary
  • 7 Advanced Drawing and Dimensioning
  • General
  • Drawing a gland
  • Dimensioning
  • Standard dimension variable settings
  • Drawing a pentagon
  • Summary
  • 8 Adding Depth to Your Drawings with 3D CAD
  • General
  • Isometric projection
  • The Express State Building in 2.5 dimensions
  • The Pyramids of Giza in glorious 3D
  • A dynamic viewpoint on visualisation
  • AutoCAD’s 3D box of tricks
  • AME
  • Summary
  • 9 The Hardcopy — Printing and Plotting
  • General
  • Printing and plotting
  • Plotting multiple viewports in paper space
  • Printing from Windows
  • The softcopy
  • Summary
  • Appendix A: Configuration
  • General
  • The DOS environment
  • Configuring AutoCAD
  • Altering devices
  • Summary
  • Appendix B: Linetypes and Hatch Patterns
  • General
  • Linetype definition
  • Hatch pattern defintiion
  • Summary.

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