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| Introduction | |
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| Straight to AutoCAD | |
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| Taking a Look Around | |
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| Maneuvering AutoCAD Files | |
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| What If I Enter the Wrong Command? | |
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| The Line Forms Here | |
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| Opening Files | |
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| Abbreviated Command Entry | |
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| MULTIPLE Command | |
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| LINE Undo Option | |
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| POLYGON Command | |
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| RECTANG Command | |
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| Cascading Pull-Down Menus | |
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| And Around We Go | |
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| CIRCLE Command | |
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| DRAGMODE Command | |
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| ARC Command | |
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| ARC Options | |
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| ARC Continue | |
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| ELLIPSE Command | |
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| Elliptical Arcs | |
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| DONUT Command | |
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| Time Out for a Discussion on Storing Your Drawings | |
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| Now You See It | |
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| First, a Word about Entities | |
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| Erasing and Restoring Entities | |
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| Crossing Option | |
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| Box Option | |
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| WPolygon, CPolygon, and Fence Options | |
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| All Option | |
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| Help | |
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| Drawing Preview | |
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| HELP Command | |
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| Searching | |
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| Direct Search | |
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| Obtaining Help After Entering a Command | |
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| Becoming a Keyboard Artist | |
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| Methods of Entering Points | |
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| Creating a Gasket | |
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| Snagging Points | |
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| Using Object Snap | |
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| FROm Object Snap | |
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| APERTURE Command | |
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| OSNAP and DDOSNAP Commands | |
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| Five Favorable Features | |
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| Printer Echoing | |
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| Coordinate Display | |
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| The Ortho Mode | |
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| TIME Command | |
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| SAVETIME | |
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| Helpful Drawing Aids | |
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| GRID Command | |
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| SNAP Command | |
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| Drawing Aids Dialog Box | |
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| Construction Lines | |
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| XLINE Options | |
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| Undoing What You'be Done | |
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| U Command | |
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| REDO Command | |
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| UNDO Command | |
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| Control Option | |
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| Altering and Adding Entites | |
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| CHAMFER Command | |
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| BREAK Command | |
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| FILLET Command | |
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| OFFSET Command | |
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| Multilines | |
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| Multiline Styles Dialog Box | |
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| Editing Multilines | |
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| Moving and Duplicating Objects | |
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| CHANGE Command | |
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| Changing a Circle | |
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| MOVE Command | |
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| COPY Command | |
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| MIRROR Command | |
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| The Powerful ARRAY Command | |
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| Rectangular Arrays | |
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| Polar (Circular) Arrays | |
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| Modifying and Maneuvering | |
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| STRETCH Command | |
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| SCALE Command | |
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| ROTATE Command | |
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| TRIM Command | |
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| EXTEND Command | |
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| LENGTHEN Command | |
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| Advanced Object Selection and Editing | |
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| Grips | |
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| Copying with Grips | |
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| Grips Dialog Box | |
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| Noun/Verb Selection Technique | |
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| Object Selection Settings Dialog Box | |
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| AutoCAD's Magnifying Glass | |
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| ZOOM Command | |
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| Screen Regenerations | |
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| VIEWRES Command | |
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| Transparent ZOOM | |
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| Getting from Here to There | |
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| PAN Command | |
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| VIEW Command | |
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| Transparent PAN and VIEW | |
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| Dynamic Zooms and Pans | |
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| Viewports in Model Space | |
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| Creating Additional Viewports | |
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| Using Viewports | |
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| VPORTS Command Options | |
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| AutoCAD File Maintenance | |
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| File Utilities Dialog Box | |
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| Copying Files | |
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| Deleting Files | |
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| Renaming and Unlocking Files | |
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| SHELL Command | |
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| Entering OS Commands at Command Prompt | |
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| AUDIT Command | |
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| RECOVER Command | |
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| Placing Notes and Specifications | |
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| TEXT Command | |
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| STYLE Command | |
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| PostScript and TrueType Fonts | |
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| Changing the Current Text Style | |
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| DTEXT Command | |
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| MTEXT Command | |
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| Text Editing and Spell Checking | |
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| Correcting Text with CHANGE | |
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| DDEDIT Command | |
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| Using DDEDIT to Edit Mtext | |
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| MTPROP Command | |
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| Spell Checker | |
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| Spell Checking Mtext | |
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| Custom Dictionaries | |
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| Special Characters and Control Codes | |
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| QTEXT Command | |
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| Preparing for a New Drawing | |
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| Creating a Prototype Drawing | |
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| DDUNITS Command | |
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| PREFERENCES Command | |
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| Scaling the Drawing | |
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| Status of Prototype Drawing | |
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| Layers and Linetypes | |
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| Creating New Layers | |
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| Changing the Current Layer | |
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| Assigning Colors | |
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| Drawing on Layers | |
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| Turning Layers On and Off | |
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| Assigning Linetypes | |
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| LTSCALE Command | |
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| Scaling Linetypes by Entity | |
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| Freezing and Thawing Layers | |
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| Locking Layers | |
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| Other Features | |
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| Moving Entities from Layer to Layer | |
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| Applying the (Nearly Complete) Prototype Drawing | |
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| Basic Dimensioning | |
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| Preparing to Dimension | |
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| Dimension Text Style | |
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| Dimensioning Horizontal Lines | |
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| Dimensioning Vertical Lines | |
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| Dimensioning Inclined Lines | |
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| Dimensioning Circles and Arcs | |
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| Dimensioning Angles | |
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| Baseline Dimensioning | |
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| Ordinate Dimensioning | |
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| Moving Dimensions | |
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| Advanced Dimensioning | |
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| Dimensioning System Variables | |
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| DIMSCALE | |
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| Dimension Styles | |
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| Dimension Text | |
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| Completing the Drawing | |
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| Associative Dimensioning | |
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| LEADER Command | |
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| Using Mtext with LEADER | |
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| Spline Leaders | |
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| Completing the Prototype Drawing | |
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| Documenting the Prototype Drawings | |
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| Fine-Tuning Your Dimensions | |
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| Editing Dimensions | |
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| DIMTEDIT Command | |
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| DIMEDIT Command | |
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| Annotation Subdialog Box | |
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| Alternate Units | |
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| Format Subialog Box | |
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| Geometry Subdialog Box | |
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| Tolerancing | |
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| Basic Tolerances | |
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| Other Basic Tolerancing Options | |
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| GDandT Practices | |
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| TOLERANCE Command | |
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| Heavy Lines and Solid Objects | |
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| TRACE Command | |
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| SOLID Command | |
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| FILL Command | |
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| Joining Straight and Curved Objects | |
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| PLINE Command | |
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| PEDIT Command | |
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| Breaking Polylines | |
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| Exploding Polylines | |
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| PLINE's Arc Option | |
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| Spline Curves | |
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| 3DPOLY Command | |
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| NURBS | |
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| Editing Spline Entities | |
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| A Calculating Strategy | |
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| ID and DIST Commands | |
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| AREA Command | |
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| CAL Command | |
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| LIST and DBLIST Commands | |
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| DIVIDE Command | |
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| Making the Points Visible with SETVAR | |
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| MEASURE Command | |
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| Groups | |
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| GROUP Command | |
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| Changing a Group | |
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| Remaining Options | |
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| PICKSTYLE System Variable | |
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| Building Blocks | |
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| BLOCK Command | |
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| INSERT Command | |
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| MINSERT Command | |
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| Reviewing Block Names | |
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| Exploding Blocks | |
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| RENAME Command | |
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| Rename Dialog Box | |
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| PURGE Command | |
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| Inserting Drawing Files | |
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| WBLOCK Command | |
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| Symbol Library Creation | |
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| Creating a Library | |
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| Using the Library | |
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| Remarkable Attributes | |
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| Creating Attributes | |
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| Storing Attributes | |
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| Displaying Attributes | |
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| Applying What You've Learned | |
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| DDATTDEF Command | |
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| Variable Attributes | |
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| Inserting Variable Attributes | |
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| Enter Attributes Dialog Box | |
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| Attribute Editing | |
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| Edit Attributes Dialog Box | |
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| Bill of Materials Generation | |
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| Attribute Extraction | |
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| DDATTEXT Command | |
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| Attribute Reporting | |
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| Dressing Your Drawings | |
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| HATCH Command | |
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| BHATCH Command | |
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| Changing an Associative Hatch | |
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| HATCHEDIT Command | |
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| SKETCH Command | |
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| From Display to Paper | |
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| Plot Previewing | |
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| Tailoring the Plot | |
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| Specifying Sheet Size | |
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| Rotation and Origin | |
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| Additional Parameters | |
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| Drawing Scale | |
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| Plotting the Drawing | |
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| Advanced Plotting | |
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| Configuring Plotter Devices | |
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| Pen Parameters | |
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| Pen Optimization | |
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| Device and Default Selection | |
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| Viewing the Contents of PCP Files | |
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| Multiple Viewport Plotting | |
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| Isometrics: Creating Objects from a New Angle | |
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| Isometric Mode | |
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| Drawing Aids Dialog Box | |
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| ISOPLANE Command | |
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| Isometric Drawing | |
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| The Third Dimension | |
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| ELEV Command | |
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| VPOINT and HIDE Commands | |
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| Adding Objects of Different Elevation and Thickness | |
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| Viewpoint Presets Dialog Box | |
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| X/Y/Z Point Filters | |
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| 3DFACE Command | |
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| Invisible Option | |
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| Creating 3D Lines | |
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| VPOINT Rotate Option | |
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| User Coordinate Systems | |
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| UCS Command | |
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| UCSICON Command | |
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| Using the new UCS | |
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| UCS Control Dialog Box | |
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| UCS Orientation Dialog Box | |
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| PLAN Command | |
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| Dynamic View Facility | |
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| Perspective Projections | |
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| Other DVIEW Options | |
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| Clipping Planes | |
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| 3D Revolutions | |
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| 3D Prototype Drawing | |
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| SURFTAB1 and SURFTAB2 | |
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| REVSURF Command | |
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| RULESURF Command | |
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| 3D Polygon Meshes | |
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| Advanced 3D Wireframe Modeling | |
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| TABSURF Command | |
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| EDGESURF Command | |
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| 3DMESH Command | |
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| Editing 3D Polygon Meshes | |
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| Types of Mesh Surfaces | |
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| Creating and Editing 3D Primitives | |
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| 3D Objects Dialog Box | |
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| ALIGN Command | |
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| ROTATE3D Command | |
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| MIRROR3D Command | |
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| Other 3D Primitives | |
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| 3D Command | |
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| Shading and Rendering | |
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| SHADE Command | |
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| RENDER Command | |
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| Configuring Render | |
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| RCONFIG Command | |
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| Statistics Dialog Box | |
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| Save Image Dialog Box | |
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| Replay Dialog Box | |
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| Unloading Render | |
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| Advanced Rendering | |
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| Render Dialog Box | |
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| Rendering Preferences Dialog Box | |
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| Materials Dialog Box | |
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| Lights Dialog Box | |
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| Scenes Dialog Box | |
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| Regions | |
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| REGION Command | |
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| SUBTRACT Command | |
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| Calculating a Region's Area | |
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| MASSPROP Command | |
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| UNION Command | |
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| BOUNDARY Command | |
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| Solid Modeling | |
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| Basic Solid Modeling | |
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| REVOLVE Command | |
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| ISOLINES | |
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| FACETRES | |
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| EXTRUDE Command | |
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| Predefined Primitives | |
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| CYLINDER Command | |
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| TORUS Command | |
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| CONE Command | |
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| WEDGE Command | |
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| BOX Command | |
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| SPHERE Command | |
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| Boolean Operations | |
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| Composite Solids | |
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| SUBTRACT Command | |
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| UNION Command | |
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| Converting AME Models | |
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| Converting ACIS Files | |
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| Tailoring Solid Models | |
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| Solidifying the Basics | |
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| Beveling and Rounding | |
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| INTERSECT Command | |
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| Moving into Position | |
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| INTERFERE Command | |
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| Downstream Benefits | |
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| SECTION Command | |
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| Completing the Section | |
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| MASSPROP Command | |
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| Realizing the Potential of Solid Modeling | |
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| SLICE Command | |
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| STLOUT Command | |
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| Creating the Prototype Part | |
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| Viewports in Paper Space | |
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| TILEMODE System Variable | |
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| MVIEW Command | |
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| MSPACE Command | |
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| Four Individual Views | |
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| PSPACE Command | |
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| Editing Viewports in Paper Space | |
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| Plotting Multiple Viewports | |
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| MVIEW Hideplot Option | |
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| VPLAYER Command | |
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| External References | |
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| Applying External References | |
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| XREF Command | |
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| Changing an Xref | |
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| Xref Layers | |
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| XREF Options | |
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| XBIND Command | |
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| An Internal Peek at AutoCAD's Menus | |
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| The Raw Menu | |
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| Individual Menu Elements | |
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| Menu Items | |
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| Creating Custom Menus | |
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| Developing a Screen Menu | |
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| MENU Command | |
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| Developing a Pull-Down Menu | |
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| Creating Tablet Menus | |
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| Developing a Tablet Menu | |
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| TABLET Command | |
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| Loading the Menu File | |
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| Combining Menus | |
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| Configuring and Customizing AutoCAD's Tablet Menu | |
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| Configuring the Standard Tablet Menu | |
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| Customizing the Tablet Menu | |
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| Designing Area 1 | |
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| Writing the Code | |
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| Using the New Menu | |
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| Exploring AutoLISP | |
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| AutoLISP Example | |
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| Loading/Invoking AutoLISP Files | |
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| Additional AutoLISP Examples | |
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| Load AutoLISP, ADS, and ARX Files Dialog Box | |
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| AutoLISP Error Messages | |
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| Recovering Node Space | |
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| Easing into AutoLISP Programming | |
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| AutoLISP Arithmetic | |
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| Setq Function | |
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| Storing AutoLISP Routines As Files | |
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| Storing AutoLISP Routines As Menu Items | |
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| List Function | |
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| Car Function | |
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| Cadr Function | |
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| Combining Several Functions | |
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| AutoLISP Programming Examples | |
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| Applying AutoLISP Programming Techniques | |
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| Applying Your Knowledge | |
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| Creating a New Routine | |
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| AutoLISP Command Function | |
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| The Routine in File Format | |
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| Other AutoLISP Functions | |
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| Parametric Programming | |
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| Digitizing Hard-Copy Drawings | |
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| Setting Up | |
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| Calibrating the Drawing | |
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| Digitizing the Drawing | |
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| Importing and Exporting Files | |
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| DXF | |
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| DXFOUT Command | |
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| Binary DXF Files | |
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| DXFIN Command | |
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| PSOUT Command | |
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| PSIN Command | |
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| 3DSOUT Command | |
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| 3DSIN Command | |
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| IGES | |
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| Lights, Camera | |
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| MSLIDE Command | |
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| VSLIDE Command | |
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| Creating the Script File | |
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| Showtime | |
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| Creating Slide Libraries | |
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| Viewing Slides from the Slide Library | |
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| Image Tile Menus | |
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| Sampling an Image Tile Menu | |
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| Creating the Slide Library | |
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| Creating the Image Tile Menu | |
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| Making the Image Tile Menu Accessible | |
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| Using the Image Tile Menu | |
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| Optional Problems | |
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| Commonly Used DOS Command | |
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| Using the Hard Disk | |
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| Using Batch Files to Start AutoCAD | |
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| Configuring AutoCAD | |
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| AutoCAD Management Tips | |
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| Paper-Scale-Limits Relationships | |
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| Geometric Characteristic Symbols | |
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| AutoCAD Fonts | |
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| Standard Hatch Patterns | |
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| AutoCAD Command Glossary | |
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| AutoCAD System Variables | |
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| Glossary of Terms | |
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| Index | |
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| Quick Reference | |