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| Getting Started With Autocad LT | |
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| Setup | |
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| The Groundwork: How AutoCAD LT Handles Scale, Units, and Paper Size | |
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| Let's Get Started: The Startup Dialog Box | |
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| Using the Setup Wizard | |
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| The User Interface | |
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| The Screen | |
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| Right-Click Cursor Menus | |
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| Saving & Leaving a Drawing Session | |
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| Opening an Existing Drawing | |
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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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| Drawing Basics-Lines & Coordinates | |
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| Lines and Rectangles | |
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| Fixing the Uh Oh-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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| 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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| Drawing Aids | |
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| The Simple Stuff-Ortho, Grid, Tracking, and Snap | |
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| Ort | |
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| Grid | |
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| Polar Tracking | |
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| Amp (Polar and Grid) | |
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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 Tracking | |
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| Point Filters | |
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| Tracking | |
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| Isometric Drafting | |
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| Display Controls & Basic Text | |
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| Getting Closer-The Zoom Command | |
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| Why Find It Twice-The View 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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| 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! Drawing Multisided Figures-The Polygon Command | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Adding Flavor to Your Drawings with Layers | |
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| The Simple Command Approach | |
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| Adding Color with the Color Command | |
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| Drawing with Linotypes | |
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| Using Lineweights | |
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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: Uh Oh, Boo Boos, Ah $%#$s-The Miracles of CHProp and the Properties Window | |
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| The Old Way-Changing Properties with CHProp | |
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| And Now the Modern Approach-Properties Window (Properties) | |
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| And Again, The Easy Way to Modify-Matchprop | |
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| Editing Your Drawing-Modification Procedures | |
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| The Change Group | |
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| Cutting It Out with the Trim Command | |
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| Adding to It with the Extend Command | |
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| The Forgotten Change Command | |
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| Redundancy-Thy Name Is AutoCAD LT: The Break Command | |
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| Now We Can Round That Corner-The Fillet Command | |
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| Fillet's Cousin-The Chamfer Command | |
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| The Location and Number Group | |
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| Here to There-The Move Command | |
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| The Copy Command-From One to Many | |
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| Moving and Copying Objects between Drawings | |
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| Beyond The Basics | |
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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 Lt.'s Inquiry Commands | |
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| Tell Me about It-The List Command | |
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| How Long or How Far-The Dist Command | |
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| Calculating the Area | |
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| Identifying Any Point with ID | |
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| Editing Polylines-The Pedit Command | |
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| More Editing Tools | |
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| Location and Number | |
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| Parallels and Concentrics-The Offset Command | |
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| Rows, Columns, and Circles-The Array Command | |
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| Opposite Copies-The Mirror Command | |
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| More Commands in the Change Group | |
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| Two Ways to Change the Length of Lines and Arcs-The Lengthen and Stretch Commands | |
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| Oh, No! I Drew It Upside Down!-The Rotate Command | |
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| "Okay, Give Me Three Just Like It-But Different Sizes." -The Scale Command | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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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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| Some More Advanced Techniques | |
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| Guidelines & Splines | |
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| Contour Lines with the Spline Command | |
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| Changing Splines-The Splinedit Command | |
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| Guidelines | |
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| Two for One-Double Lines | |
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| Two at Once-AutoCAD Lt.'s DLine Command | |
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| Using DLine to Create Walls | |
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| Advanced Text-MText | |
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| AutoCAD LT'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 LT's Spell Command | |
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| Find and Replace | |
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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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| Linear Dimensioning | |
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| Dimensioning Angles | |
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| Dimensioning Radii and Diameters | |
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| Dimension Strings | |
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| Aligning Dimensions | |
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| Baseline Dimensions | |
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| Placing Leaders | |
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| Ordinate Dimensions | |
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| Dimension Editing-The Dimedit and DimTedit Commands | |
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| Positioning the Dimension-The DimTedit Command | |
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| Changing the Dimension Text-The Dimedit Command | |
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| Isometric Dimensioning | |
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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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| Experimenting with Dim-Update | |
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| Overriding Dimensions | |
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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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| 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 | |