Book description
AutoCAD is the hot computer-aided design software known for both its powerful tools and its complexity. AutoCAD 2010 for Dummies is the bestselling guide that walks you through this complicated program so you can build complex 3D technical drawings, edit like a pro, enter new dimensions, and plot with style.
AutoCAD 2010 for Dummies helps you navigate the program, use the AutoCAD Design Center, create a basic layout and work with dimension, and put your drawings on the Internet. You’ll soon be setting up the AutoCAD environment, using the AutoCAD Ribbon, creating annotation and dimension drawings, exploring 3D models, and cruising comfortably through AutoCAD 2010.
Understand object selection and learn all about commanding and selecting, one-by-one selection, and perfecting selecting
Use the AutoCAD tool kit and learn to copy between drawings, manipulate images, and polish your properties
Turn on your annotative objects and say more in multiline text
Understand the anatomy of a dimension, then draw and edit your own
Get up to speed on how to create block definitions, insert blocks, and more
Discover techniques for setting up a layout in paper space
Push the boundary of hatch and define hatch objects
Learn to design in Web format and draw on the Internet
With AutoCAD, the only limits are your imagination. AutoCAD 2010 for Dummies prepares you to use this powerful software to design and document your ideas in 2D and 3D.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Author's Acknowledgments
- Publisher's Acknowledgments
- Introduction
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I. AutoCAD 101
- 1. Introducing AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT
- 2. Le Tour de AutoCAD 2010
- 3. A Lap around the CAD Track
- 4. Setup for Success
- 5. Planning for Paper
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II. Let There Be Lines
- 6. Manage Your Properties
- 7. Preciseliness Is Next to CADliness
- 8. Down the Straightaway
- 9. Dangerous Curves Ahead
- 10. Get a Grip on Object Selection
- 11. Edit for Credit
- 12. A Zoom with a View
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III. If Drawings Could Talk
- 13. Text with Character
- 14. Entering New Dimensions
- 15. Down the Hatch
- 16. The Plot Thickens
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IV. Advancing with AutoCAD
- 17. The ABCs of Blocks
- 18. Going Dynamic and External
- 19. Call the Parametrics!
- 20. Drawing on the Internet
- V. The Part of Tens
Product information
- Title: AutoCAD® 2010 For Dummies®
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2009
- Publisher(s): For Dummies
- ISBN: 9780470433454
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