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| Introduction | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Exploring the AutoCAD 2014 for Windows User Interface | |
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| Exploring the Graphical User Interface | |
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| Exploring Workspaces | |
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| The AutoCAD Ribbon | |
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| Setting Drawing Units | |
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| Basic Drawing Skills | |
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| Navigating 2D Drawings | |
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| Drawing Lines and Rectangles | |
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| Drawing Lines | |
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| Drawing Rectangles | |
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| Canceling, Erasing, and Undoing | |
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| Using Coordinate Systems | |
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| Using Absolute Coordinates | |
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| Using Relative Coordinates | |
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| Using Polar Coordinates | |
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| Drawing Circles, Arcs, and Polygons | |
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| Creating Circles | |
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| Creating Arcs | |
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| Drawing Polygons | |
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| Filleting and Chamfering Lines | |
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| Joining Nonparallel Lines | |
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| Joining Crossed Lines | |
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| Using Drawing Aids | |
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| Grid and Snap | |
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| Ortho and Polar Tracking | |
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| PolarSnap | |
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| Running Object Snaps | |
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| From Snap | |
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| Object Snap Tracking | |
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| Editing Entities | |
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| Creating Selection Sets | |
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| Creating a Selection Set at the Select Objects: Prompt | |
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| Creating a Selection Set Before Deciding on a Command | |
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| Move and Copy | |
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| Rotate and Scale | |
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| Working with Arrays | |
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| Rectangular Arrays | |
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| Polar Arrays | |
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| Trim and Extend | |
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| Lengthen and Stretch | |
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| Offset and Mirror | |
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| Grip Editing | |
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| Shaping Curves | |
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| Drawing and Editing Curved Polylines | |
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| Drawing Ellipses | |
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| Drawing and Editing Splines | |
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| Working with Control Vertices | |
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| Working with Fit Points | |
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| Blending Between Objects with Splines | |
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| Controlling Object Visibility and Appearance | |
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| Changing Object Properties | |
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| Setting the Current Layer | |
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| Altering the Layer Assignments of Objects | |
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| Controlling Layer Visibility | |
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| Toggling Layer Status | |
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| Isolating Layers | |
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| Saving Layer States | |
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| Applying Linetype | |
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| Assigning Properties by Object or by Layer | |
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| Managing Layer Properties | |
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| Organizing Objects | |
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| Defining Blocks | |
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| Drawing a Chair and Defining It as a Block | |
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| Drawing a Door and Defining It as a Block | |
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| Inserting Blocks | |
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| Editing Blocks | |
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| Editing Block Definition Geometry | |
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| Assigning Floating Properties | |
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| Nesting Blocks | |
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| Exploding Blocks | |
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| Redefining Blocks | |
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| Working with Groups | |
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| Hatching and Gradients | |
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| Specifying Hatch Areas | |
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| Picking Points to Determine Boundaries | |
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| Selecting Objects to Define Boundaries | |
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| Associating Hatches with Boundaries | |
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| Hatching with Patterns | |
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| Specifying Properties | |
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| Separating Hatch Areas | |
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| Hatching with Gradients | |
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| Working with Blocks and Xrefs | |
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| Working with Global Blocks | |
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| Writing a Local Block Definition to a File | |
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| Inserting a Drawing as a Local Block | |
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| Redefining Local Blocks with Global Blocks | |
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| Accessing Content Globally | |
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| Storing Content on Tool Palettes | |
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| Referencing External Drawings and Images | |
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| Creating and Editing Text | |
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| Creating Text Styles | |
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| Writing Lines of Text | |
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| Creating Text to Fit | |
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| Justifying Text | |
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| Transforming and Creating Text | |
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| Writing and Formatting Paragraphs of Text Using MTEXT | |
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| Editing Text | |
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| Editing Content and Properties | |
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| Working with Columns | |
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| Dimensioning | |
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| Styling Dimensions | |
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| Adding Dimensions | |
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| Using Inquiry Commands | |
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| Adding Dimension Objects | |
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| Adding and Styling Multileaders | |
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| Editing Dimensions | |
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| Keeping In Control with Constraints | |
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| Working with Geometric Constraints | |
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| Applying Dimensional Constraints and Creating User Parameters | |
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| Constraining Objects Simultaneously with Geometry and Dimensions | |
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| Making Parametric Changes to Constrained Objects | |
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| Working with layouts and Annotative Objects | |
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| Creating Annotative Styles and Objects | |
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| Working with Annotative Text | |
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| Working with Annotative Dimensions | |
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| Creating Layouts | |
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| Adjusting Floating Viewports | |
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| Working on Layout1 | |
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| Working on Layout2 | |
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| Overriding Layer Properties in. Layout Viewports | |
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| Drawing on Layouts | |
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| Printing and Plotting | |
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| Configuring Output Devices | |
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| Setting Up a System Printer | |
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| Setting Up an AutoCAD Plotter | |
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| Creating Plot Style Tables | |
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| Using Plot Style Tables | |
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| Configuring New Drawings for Named Plot Style Tables | |
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| Assigning Plot Styles by Layer or by Object | |
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| Plotting in Modelspace | |
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| Plotting Layouts in Paperspace | |
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| Exporting to an Electronic Format | |
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| Working with Data | |
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| Geolocating Projects | |
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| Importing SketchUp Models | |
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| Defining Attributes and Blocks | |
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| Inserting Attributed Blocks | |
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| Editing Table Styles and Creating Tables | |
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| Using Fields in Table Cells | |
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| Editing Table Data | |
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| Navigating 3D Models | |
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| Using Visual Styles | |
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| Working with Tiled Viewports | |
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| Navigating with the ViewCube | |
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| Orbiting in 3D | |
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| Using Cameras | |
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| Navigating with SteeringWheels | |
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| Saving Views | |
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| Modeling in 3D | |
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| Creating Surface Models | |
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| Making Planar Surfaces | |
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| Revolving a 2D Profile to Create a 3D Model | |
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| Sweeping Out 3D Geometry | |
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| Extruding 2D Geometry into 3D | |
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| Editing Surface Models | |
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| Trimming Surfaces with Other Surfaces | |
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| Projecting Edges on Surfaces | |
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| Trimming Surfaces with Edges | |
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| Creating Solid Models | |
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| Extruding Solid Objects | |
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| Lofting Solid Objects | |
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| Editing Solid Models | |
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| Performing Boolean Operations | |
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| Editing Solids | |
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| Smoothing Meshes | |
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| Presenting and Documenting 3D Design | |
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| Assigning Materials | |
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| Placing and Adjusting Lights | |
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| Adding Artificial Lights | |
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| Simulating Natural Light | |
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| Creating Renderings | |
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| Documenting Models with Drawings | |
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| Appendix: Autodesk AutoCAD 2014 Certification | |
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| Index | |