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| Preface | |
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| CD-ROM Setup | |
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| The Basics | |
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| Setup | |
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| The Groundwork: How AutoCAD Handles Scale, Units, and Paper Size | |
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| Let's Get Started: The Start Up Dialog Box | |
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| Using the Setup Wizard | |
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| The User Interface | |
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| Saving and Leaving a Drawing Session | |
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| Opening an Existing Drawing | |
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| Partial Open and Partial Load | |
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| Creating Templates | |
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| Creating a New Drawing Using a Template | |
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| Changing the Setup or Starting a New Drawing from Scratch | |
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| Extra Steps | |
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| What Have We Learned? | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Drawing Basics: Lines and Coordinates | |
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| Lines and Rectangles | |
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| Fixing the Uh Ohs: Erase, Undo, and Redo | |
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| Multiple-Object Selection Made Easy | |
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| The Cartesian Coordinate System | |
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| Extra Steps | |
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| What Have We Learned? | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Putting It on Paper | |
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| First Things First: Setting Up Your Printer (or Plotter) | |
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| Plot Styles | |
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| Setting Up the Page to Be Plotted | |
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| Printing the Drawing | |
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| Extra Steps | |
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| What Have We Learned? | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Drawing Aids | |
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| The Simple Stuff: Ortho, Grid, Tracking, and Snap | |
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| And Now the Easy Way: DSettings | |
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| Never Miss the Point with OSNAPS | |
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| Running OSNAPS | |
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| Point Filters and Object Snap Tracking | |
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| Isometric Drafting | |
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| Extra Steps | |
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| What Have We Learned? | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Display Controls and Basic Text | |
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| Getting Closer: The Zoom Command | |
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| Why Find It Twice: The View and DDView Commands | |
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| Simple Text | |
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| Editing Text: The DDEdit Command | |
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| Finding and Replacing Text | |
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| Adding Flavor to Text with Style | |
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| Extra Steps | |
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| What Have We Learned? | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Geometric Shapes (Other Than Lines and Rectangles!) | |
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| Getting Around to Circles | |
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| "Squished" Circles and Isometric Circles: The Ellipse Command | |
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| Arcs: The Hard Way | |
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| Drawing Multisided Figures: The Polygon Command | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Extra Steps | |
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| What Have We Learned? | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Beyond the Basics | |
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| Adding Flavor to Your Drawing with Layers | |
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| The Simple Command Approach | |
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| Color, Linetype, and So Much More: Layers | |
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| Swapping Setups: The AutoCAD Design Center | |
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| The Scenario | |
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| Uh Ohs, Boo Boos Ah $%and#$s: The Miracles of CHProp and the Object Property Manager | |
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| And Again, the Easy Way to Modify: Matchprop | |
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| Extra Steps | |
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| What Have We Learned? | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Editing Your Drawing: Modification Procedures | |
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| The Change Group | |
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| The Location and Number Group | |
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| Moving and Copying Objects between Drawings | |
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| Extra Steps | |
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| What Have We Learned? | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| More Complex Lines: Polylines (and Light Weight Polylines) | |
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| Using the Pline Command for Wide Lines and Multisegmented Lines | |
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| The Most Useful of the Most Overlooked: AutoCAD's Inquiry Commands | |
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| Editing Polylines: The Pedit Command | |
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| Extra Steps | |
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| What Have We Learned? | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| More Editing Tools | |
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| Location and Number | |
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| More Commands in the Change Group | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Extra Steps | |
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| What Have We Learned? | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Some More Advanced Techniques | |
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| Some Useful Drawing Tricks | |
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| Equal or Measured Distances: The Divide and Measure Commands | |
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| So Where's the Point? | |
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| From Outlines to Solids: The Solid and Donut Commands | |
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| More Object Selection Methods | |
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| Object Selection Filters: Quick Select | |
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| Extra Steps | |
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| What Have We Learned? | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Guidelines and Splines | |
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| Contour Lines with the Spline Command | |
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| Change Splines: The Splinedit Command | |
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| Guidelines | |
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| Extra Steps | |
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| What Have We Learned? | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Advanced Lines: Multilines | |
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| Many at Once: AutoCAD's Multilines and the MLine Command | |
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| Options, Options, Options: The MLStyle Command | |
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| Editing Multilines: The MLEdit Command | |
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| The Project | |
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| Extra Steps | |
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| What Have We Learned? | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Advanced Text: MText | |
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| AutoCAD's Word Processor: The Multiline Text Editor | |
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| Okay I Typed It, but I Don't Know If It's Right!: AutoCAD's Spell Command | |
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| Find and Replace | |
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| Extra Steps | |
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| What Have We Learned? | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Basic Dimensioning | |
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| First, Some Terminology | |
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| Dimension Creation: Dimension Commands | |
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| And Now the Easy Way: Quick Dimensioning (QDim) | |
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| Dimension Editing: The Dimedit and DimTedit Commands | |
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| Isometric Dimensioning | |
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| Extra Steps | |
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| What Have We Learned? | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Customizing Dimensions | |
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| Creating Dimension Styles: The DDim Command | |
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| Try One | |
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| Simple Repairs | |
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| Extra Steps | |
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| What Have We Learned? | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Advanced Modification Techniques | |
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| Object Selection Settings | |
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| A Whole New Ball Game!: Editing with Grips | |
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| Extra Steps | |
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| What Have We Learned? | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Razzle Dazzle | |
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| Hatching and Section Lines | |
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| The Hatch Command | |
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| Boundary Hatching | |
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| Editing Hatched Areas | |
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| More Section Help: The Sketch Command | |
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| Extra Steps | |
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| What Have We Learned? | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Many as One: Groups and Blocks | |
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| Paper Dolls: The Group Command | |
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| Groups with Blocks: The Block Command | |
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| Extra Steps | |
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| What Have We Learned? | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Advanced Blocks | |
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| Creating Attributes | |
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| Editing Attributes | |
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| The Coup de Grace: Using Attribute Information in Bills of Materials or Database Programs | |
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| Extra Steps | |
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| What Have We Learned? | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Afterword: Getting an Edge | |
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| Creating Your Own Hotkeys: the Acad.PGP File | |
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| The Z-Direction | |
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| Looking Ahead | |
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| Extra Steps | |
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| What Have We Learned? | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Drawing Scales | |
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| Function Keys and Their Uses | |
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| Answers to Review Questions | |
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| MText Keystrokes | |
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| Dimension Variables | |
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| Index | |