Applied AutoCAD -

Command Page Command Page Command Page

Appload 13 Donut 123 Erase 77 Angbase 43 Draworder 154 Edgemode 94 Angdir 43 Divide 157 Extend 96 Arc 83 Dsviewer 163 Ellipse 113 -Array 99 Dist 177 Explode 115 Array 101 Dtext 190 Explorer 187 Align 104 Ddedit 192 Eattedit 203 Area 178 Ddatte 203 Audit 186 Dimassoc 240 Fillet 90 Attdef 1^9 Dimlinear 241 Fill 131 Attreq 201 Di maligned 244 Filter 175 Attdia 201 Dimangular 244 Find 197 Attdisp 203 Dimradius 245 Attredef 203 Dimdiameter 246 Graphscr 38 Attext 205 Dimordinate 246 Grips 116 Adcenter 271 Dimcontinue 247 Gripsize 116 Dimbaseiine 248 Group 151 Bhatch 124 Dimdli 248,254 Grid 169 Boundry 130 Dimatfit 245 Gripblock 277 Bpoly 130 Dimcen 245 Break 132 Dimtofl 245 Highlight 48 Block 135 Dirncenter 251 Hyperlink 63,152 Blockicon 136 Ddim 252 Hatchedit 130 Base 139 Dimasz 254 Upscale 277 Bmpout 187 Dimsdl 254 Hpang 277 Dimsd2 254 Customize 18 Dimexe 254 Insert 137 Cursorsize 35 Dimexo 254 Image 153 Config 39 Dimsel 254 Imageclip 154 Cprofile 41 Dimse2 254 Id 177 Color 61 Dimclrt 255 Ch 63 Dimtxt 255 Justifytext 193 Circle 78 Dimgap 256 Convertpoly 86 Dimtix 257 List 4,78 Chamfer 92 Dimsoxd 257 Logfileon 38 Copy 97 Dimscale 252 Lpgfileoff 39 Copy clip 134 Dimtxt 257 Layer 54 Cutclip 134 Dimupt 258 Linetype 61 Copybase 134 Dimtofl 258 Ltscale 62 Convertctb 238 Dimlfac 259 Lweight 62 Convertpstyles 238 Dimregen 265 Lwdefault 63 Cmddia 250 Dimreassociate 266 Limits 68 Dimedit 267 Line 76 Ddptype 106 H

Applied AutoCAD

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Lengthen 38 Pasteorig 134 Subtract 181 Layout 221 Pickstyle 159 Shade 181 Layoutwizard 224 Plan 185 Savetime 187 Pbrush 187 Shell 187 Menuload 27 Past especial 196 Style 188 Menu 31 Pagesetup 227 Scaletext 193 Modemacro 38 Preview 227 Spell 198 Measurement 70 Psltscale 231 Spacetrans 228 Move 97 Plot 278 Mirror 98 Toolbar 29 Mline 117 Qselect 4,172 Textscr 38 Ml style 118 Qsave 6 Today 73 Mledit 121 Qtext 196 Trimmode 90Measure 158 Qleader 248 Trim 94 Massprop 181 Qdim 250 Trace 123 Mtext 194 Time 183Mintext 196 Redefine 11 Text 190 Mview 222 Reinit 15 Textstyle 196 Mvsetup 225 Redo 78 Tolerance 251 Rectangle 81 Notepad 15,187 Regen 85 Undefine 11 Rotate 102 Ucsicon 36 Options 16,39 Ray 123 Units 66 Osnap 52 Rename 142 U 77 Oops " 77 Refedit 149 Undo 77 Oftset 89 Region 180 Union 180 Recover 186 Ucs 184 Purge 5,141 Regenall 231 Ucsfollow 186 Pickbox 35 Pickfirst 47 Status 5,183 Visretain 145 Pick add 47 Save 6 View 160 Pickdrag 47 Saveas 6 Vports 223 Pickauto 48 Sdi 34 Vplayer 226 Pickbox 48 Scale 103 Vpclip 227 Pan 50 Stretch 104 Pline 85 Splframe 112 Wblock 139 Plinetype 86 Splinetype 112 Plinewid 87 Splinesegs 112 Xline 122 Projmode 94 Solid 124 Xref 142 Polygon 105 Syswindows 133 Xattach 144 Point 106 Shademode 157 Xbmd 147Pedit 108 Spline 155 Xclip 148 Pellipse 114 Sketch 156 Xcliplrame 149 Pasted ip 134 Skpoly 156

Pasteblock 134 Snap 169 Zoom 49

CONTENTS PART I

AutoCAD Fundamentals

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AutoCAD Entity Types .............. 1 Object Types .............. AutoCAD Named Obj ects 5

AutoCAD Drawing File Types .............. 6 Different Types of .Dwg and .Dxf Formats .............. 6 Backup File (.Bak) & Auto-Save File (.SvS) DesignXMLFile(.Xml)

AutoCAD Drawing File Size .............. Using ARJ 8

AutoCAD Drawing Scales .............. 10 Using AutoCAD Commands .............. 11

AutoCAD Standard Commands .............. 11 Undefming and Redefining AutoCAD Commands .............. 11 Transparent Commands .............. Suppressing Dialog Boxes from AutoCAD Commands .............. 12 Other Command Sources ..............

vAutoCAD Express Tools 14 AutoCAD Command Alias .............. 14

Using Mouse in AutoCAD .............. 16 Right-Click Customization .............. 16

Using Keyboard in AutoCAD .............. 17 Function Keys ............... 17 Keyboard Shortcuts .............. OtherKeys ...............

AutoCAD Directory Structure ............... Contents of Subdirectories Support File Search Path AutoCAD Files to Backup AutoCAD System Files

Using AutoCAD Interface General Features 26 Title Bar Menu Bar

Loading a Partial Menu .............. Toolbars 28

Customizing Toolbars .............. 28 Loading the Template Menu File .............. 31 Writing Toolbar Macros 3 2 Special Characters using in Toolbar Macros ........ 33

DrawingArea .............. 34 Layout Tab . . . . 35 Command Line 3 5

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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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CONTENTS PART II

Learning AutoCAD Commands

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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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Donut .............. 123 Solid .............. 124 Bhatch .............. 124 Hatchedit .............. 130 Boundary (or) Bpoly .............. 130 Fill .............. 131 Lengthen .............. 131 Break .............. 132

Learning Commands III (Pasting, Inserting Commands) .............. 133

Syswindows .............. 133 Copyclip, Cutclip, Copybase, Pasteclip, Pasteblock, Pasteorig............... 134 Block 135 Insert .............. 137 Base .............. 139 Wblock .............. 139 Purge .............. 141 Rename ............... 142 Xref .............. 142 Xbmd 147 Xclip ............... 148 Retedit 149 Hyperlink ............... 152 Image .............. 153 Draworder .............. 154

Learning Commands IV (General Commands) .............. 155

Spline .............. 155 Stretch 156 Divide 157 Measure .............. 158 Group .............. 158 View .............. 160 Dsviewer .............. 163

Learning Commands V (Drawing Aids Commands) .............. 164

Using Point Filters .............. 164 UsingFRom .............. 164 Using OSN AP + OTRACK 165 Using POLOR Tracking 165 Using POLAR + OSNAP + OTRACK .............. 167 Using Calculator .............. 168 Using Grid & Snap 169 Using Snap For Isometric Drawing .............. 169 Qselect .............. 172 Filter 175

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Page 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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Preview .............. 227 Creating Texts on Paper space & Model space ............... 228 Lmelype Scaling on Paper space & Model space ............... 229

Attaching a Plot Style ............... 232 Using Plot Styles ............... 232 Using. Ctbamd.Stb 237 Convening a drawing from Color-dependent

to Named Plotstyles ............... 238Dimensioning ............... 240

Creating Dimensions ............... 241 Rotated Dimensions ............... 241 Aligned Dimensions ............... 244 Angular Dimensions ............... 244 Radial Dimensions ............... 245

Diametric Dimensions ............... 246Ordinate Dimensions ............... 246

Other Dimension Commands ............... 247 Dimcontinue ............... 247Dimbaseline ............... 248Qleader ............... 248Qdim ............... 250Tolerance ................ 251Dimcenter ............... 251

Dimension Scale ............... 252 Creating Dimension Style ............... 252

Ddim ............... 252Line & Arrows ............... 254Text ............... 255Fit ............... 256Primary Units ............... 258Alternate Units ............... 260Tolerances ............... 260

Creating Substyles ............... 261 Renaming & Deleting Dimension Styles ................ 261 Comparing Dimension Styles ............... 261 Modifing Dimension Styles ................ 262 Overriding Dimension Styles ............... 262

Dimensioning a Drawing ................ 263 Model space and Paper space Dimensioning ............... 263 Editing Dimensions ................ 266

EditingDimensionLines&ExtensionLines ............... 267Making Extension Lines Oblique ............... 267Dimensioning an Isometric Drawing ............... 268Editing Dimension Texts ............... 268Editing Dimension Properties ............... 269

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AutoCAD DesignCenter ............... 270 Using AutoC AD DesignCenter ............... 271 Howtouse.. ............... 274 Hatching With DesignCenter ............... 277

Plotting ............... 278 Plot ............... 278

AutoCAD Plot File (.pit) ............... 279 Plot Stamping ............... 279

BatchPlotting .:..................... 281 Troubleshooting ............... 283

Active Assistance ............... 287 AutoLISP Programs ............... 288

Isomark.Isp ............... 290 Redbloddsp 291 Isodim.lsp ............... 292 Atemp.lsp ............... 293 Chtxtprop.lsp ............... 294 Tframe.lsp ............... 296 Centroidlsp ............... 297 Layhandlsp ............... 298 SeriaLlsp ............... 299 Chaserlsp ............... 300 Locline.lsp ............... 301 Uline.lsp ............... 302

Drawing Exercises

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