AutoCAD Secrets Every User Should Know

Name: AutoCAD Secrets Every User Should Know
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ISBN: 9780470109939

ISBN-10: 0470109939

ISBN-13: 9780470109939

Edition: 2007

Authors: Dan Abbott

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Discover Powerful Techniques and Features That Most Users OverlookWhether you're designing houses, landscapes, or machines, there are AutoCAD tricks-of-the-trade that even seasoned users don't know-tips that can improve your skills, understanding, and productivity. This practical, in-depth book reveals those secrets. You'll find smart ideas on customization, applying graphics standards, managing symbol libraries, leveraging 3D, and more. It even includes an insider's look at features that are used in the field but often ignored in other books, such as DOS functions, scripts, and AutoLISP programming. The final chapter, AutoCAD Puzzlers, challenges readers to solve real problems from real…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/10/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.20" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Introduction



AutoCAD Productivity


Design Standards


AutoCAD Best Practices


Feature Review (All Releases)



Managing Your System


Managing Files


Managing AutoCAD


Directories


Why DOS Isn't Dead Yet


External Commands and Command Aliases



Customizing the AutoCAD Interface


Tool Palettes (All Releases)


The Customizable User Interface (CUI)


Linetypes (All Releases)



Applying Graphics Standards


Dimensions


Dimensioning Rules


Text Styles


Linetypes and Weights


Applying Standards



Symbols, Tables, and Fields


Blocks


Dynamic Blocks


Symbol Libraries


Assigning and Extracting Attributes


XRefs: External References


Fields and Tables



Plotting


Model Space, Paper Space, and Layouts


What to Put Where


Plotting a Layout


AutoCAD Graphics in Other Applications



AutoCAD Scripts


Characteristics of Scripts


Writing and Running Scripts


Updating Thousands of Drawings



AutoLISP by Example: Getting Started


Background


Writing AutoLISP Programs


AutoLISP Examples


Automatic Loading



AutoLISP by Example: Getting Better


Debugging Techniques


Error Handling


Annotation


Selection Sets and Entity Manipulation


IF Function


Repeat Function


WHILE Function


COND, INITGET, GETKWORD


Text and String Manipulation


Getting to DOS with AutoLISP



3D For Everyone


Overview


Managing Coordinate Systems


Creating a Model


Using Existing 2D Geometry


Final Suggestions



AutoCAD Puzzlers


The Puzzlers


The Solutions


Index