AutoCAD Fundamentals
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Cursor ............... 35
UCSIcon ............... 35
Controlling the display of UCS icon ............... 36
Scroll Bar ............... 38
Status Bar ............... 38
Text Window ............... 38
Screen Menu ............... 39
Making your own Profiles ............... 39
Specify Coordinates in AutoCAD ............... 42
Cartesian Coordinate System ................ 42
Polar Coordinate System ............... 42
Direct Distance Entry ................ 43
AutoCAD Object Selection ............... 44
Checking the Default Selection Modes ........ 46
Zooming and Panning the Drawing ................ 49
Zoom ................ 49
Pan ................ 50
AutoCAD Object Snaps ................ 51
Using Object Snaps ................ 52
Running Object Snaps ................ 52
AutoCAD Object Properties ................ 53
Layer ................ 53
Layer Properties ................ 53
Making Layers ................ 53
Using Layers ................ 57
Layer Filters ................ 58
Saving Layer States ................ 59
Renaming and Deleting Layers ................ 60
Color ................ 61
Linetype ................ 61
Linetype Scale ................ 62
Lineweight ................ 62
Hyperlink ................ 63
Plot Style ................ 63
Changing Object Properties ................ 63
Match Properties ................ 65
Setting up a Drawing ................ 66
Drawing Units ................ 66
Units of Length ............................. 66
Units of Angle ................ 66
DrawingLimits ................ 68
Using Startup Dialog Boxes for setting up a drawing ................ 68
Today Startup Dialog Box ................ 73
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Learning Commands I
(Most Frequently Used Commands) ............... 75
Command Options ............... 75
Data Entry ...............
Line ............... 76
Erase ................
U ................
Undo ................
Redo ................ 78
List ................ 78
Circle ................ 78
Rectangle ................ 81
Arc ................ 83
Regen ................ 85
Pline ................ 85
Offset ................ 89
Fillet ................ 90
Chamfer ................ 92
Trim ................ 94
Extend ................ 96
Copy ................ 97
Move ................ 97
Mirror ................ 98
-Array ................ 99
Array ................ 101
Rotate 102
Scale ................ 103
Align .................. 104
Stretch ................ 104
Pologon ................ 105
Point ................ 106
Pedit ................. 108
Ellipse ................ 113
Explode ................. 115
Gnps ................ 116
Learning Commands II
(General Commands) ................. 117
Mline ................. 117
Mlstyle ................. 118
Mledit ................. 121
Xline ................. 122
Ray ................. 123
Trace 123
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Learning Commands VI
(Inquiry Commands) ............... 177
Dist ............... 177
Area ............... 178
Region Modelling ............... 180
Learning Commands VII
(General Commands) ............... 184
UCS ............... 184
Plan ............ 185
Ucsfollow ............... 186
Audit ............... 186
Recover ............... 186
Savetime ............... 187
Bmpout ............... 187
Shell ............... 187
Noiepad, Pbrush, Explorer ............... 187
Learning Commands VIII
(Text Commands) ............... 188
Style ............... 189
Text,Dtext ............... 190
Ddedit ............... 192
Justifytext ............... 193
Scaletext ............... 193
Mtext ............... i 94
Importing Texts ............... 195
Qtext ............... 196
Mirrtext ............... 196
Find ............... 197
Spell ............... 198
Working with Attributes ............... 199
Extracting Attribute Data ............... 204
Preparing For Plotting ............... 206
Installing Hard Copy Device ............... 206
CreatingPlotterConfigurationFile(.Pc3) ................ 208
Choosing Paper size & Plot Scale ............... 211
Model Space and Paper Space Plotting ................ 211
Viewport ................ 215
UsingLayout Templates ................ 220
Layout ............... 221
Mview ................ 222
Vports ................ 223
Layoutwizard ................ 224
Mvsetup ................ 225
Vplayer ................ 226
Vpclip ................ 227
Pagesetup ................ 227
Preview ................ 227
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