N.Poleshchuk, V.Savelyeva. "AutoCAD 2008 - Self-Teacher" (published in 2007, Russian)

AutoCAD 2008 - Self-Teacher (published in 2007, Russian)

BHV-Petersburg issued in May 2007:

21. N.Poleshchuk, V.Savelyeva. "AutoCAD 2008 - Self-Teacher" ("Self-Teacher" series). BHV-Petersburg, 2007, 704 pp. ISBN 5-9775-0074-2.

The book is written for learning AutoCAD 2008 with a special authors' technology. Methods of drawing creation, dependencies on 3D model, handling annotative objects (they are being scaled with a special annotation scale) are described. New facilities are examined: cell styles, table breaks, dimension line breaks and jogs, DGN underlays, photometric lights, sun and sky background. Much attention is paid to space operations, visualization and animation, material control. Each chapter has examples and exercises for better learning. The book will be useful for engineers, designers, postgraduates and students.

Contents:

Forword

Chapter 1. General
1.1. System Usage
1.2. Computer Demands
1.3. User Interface

1.3.1. Dashboard
1.4. Commands
1.5. File Handling
1.6. Text Window
1.7. User Workspace
1.8. Exercises to Chapter 1

Chapter 2. Entities
2.1. Enitity Types and Creation Principles
2.2. Lines
2.2.1. Using Shortcut Menu
2.2.2. Entity Continuation
2.2.3. Access to Options with Keyboard
2.3. Points Input
2.3.1. Digital Input
2.3.2. Dynamic Input
2.3.3. Object Snap
2.3.4. Calculator
2.4. Modes
2.4.1. Drafting Modes
2.4.2. Status Line and Tray Setting
2.4.3. Viewing Drawing
2.5. Points
2.5.1. Point Styles
2.5.2. Removing Entities
2.5.3. Divide and Measure
2.6. Rays
2.7. Xlines
2.8. Circles
2.9. Arcs
2.10. Polylines
2.10.1. Joining into Polyline
2.10.2. Special Polylines
2.11. Multilines
2.12. Texts
2.12.1. Single Line Text
2.12.2. Multiline Text
2.13. Using Fields
2.14. Tables
2.15. Dimensions, Tolerances and Leaders
2.15.1. Linear and Parallel Dimensions
2.15.2. Arc Length Dimension
2.15.3. Ordinate Dimension
2.15.4. Radius Dimension
2.15.5. Diameter Dimension
2.15.6. Angular Dimension
2.15.7. Quick Dimension
2.15.8. Base Dimension
2.15.9. Continued Dimension
2.15.10. Dimension Line Break and Jog
2.15.11. Inspection Dimensions
2.15.12. Tolerance
2.15.13. Center Mark

2.15.14. Leader and Multileader
2.16. Hatches and Fills
2.16.1. Hatches
2.16.2. Solid Fills
2.16.3. Gradient Fills
2.16.4. Using Tool Palettes
2.17. Ellipses
2.18. Splines
2.19. Regions
2.20. Other Entities
2.21. Inquiries
2.22. Exercises to Chapter 2

Chapter 3. Entity Editing
3.1. Grips and Object Selection
3.1.1. Editing with Grips
3.1.2. Editing Shortcut Menu
3.1.3. Selection Tools
3.1.4. Groups
3.2. Common Editing Commands
3.3. Polyline Editing
3.4. Multiline Editing
3.5. Text Editing

3.6. Table Editing
3.7. Dimension Editing
3.8. Hatch and Fill Editing
3.9. Spline Editing
3.10. Multileader Editing
3.11. Region Editing
3.12. Exercises to Chapter 3

Chapter 4. Properties
4.1. Color
4.2. Linetype and Scale
4.3. Layer
4.4. Lineweight
4.5. Annotation Scale
4.6. Other Properties
4.7. Properties Editing
4.8. Exercises to Chapter 4

Chapter 5. Drafting Styles
5.1. Text Styles
5.2. Dimension Styles
5.3. Multiline Styles
5.4. Table Styles
5.5. Multileader Styles
5.6. DesignCenter
5.7. Standards
5.8. Exercises to Chapter 5

Chapter 6. Plotting and Publishing
6.1. Adding a Plotter
6.2. Plot Setting
6.2.1. Plot Stamp
6.2.2. List of Standard Scales
6.3. Plot Styles
6.4. Publishing
6.4.1. Publishing Commands
6.4.2. Autodesk DWF Viewer
6.4.3. DWF Underlay
6.5. PDF Format
6.6. Exercises to Chapter 6

Chapter 7. Blocks and DWG References
7.1. Blocks
7.1.1. Block Definition
7.1.2. Block Insertion
7.1.3. Block Reference
7.1.4. Export of Drawing and Its Parts
7.1.5. Attributes
7.1.6. Using Clipboard
7.1.7. Dynamic Properties Creation
7.1.8. Parameters and Actions
7.1.9. Visibility States
7.1.10. Lookup Tables
7.1.11. Tool Palettes
7.2. DWG References
7.2.1. DWG Reference Insertion
7.2.2. External References Manager
7.3. Reference Editing
7.3.1. Editing Block Attributes
7.3.2. Clipping Block and DWG References
7.3.3. In-Place Editing Block and DWG References
7.4. Exercises to Chapter 7

Chapter 8. Interaction with Other Format Files
8.1. Inserting and Editing Raster Images
8.2. Wipeout Entity
8.3. Import from Other formats
8.4. Data Links to Excel tables
8.5. Export into Other formats
8.6. Data Extraction
8.7. Exercises to Chapter 8

Chapter 9. 3D Modeling
9.1. Construction Planes and Coordinate Systems
9.1.1. Coordinates in 3D Space
9.1.2. Elevation and Thickness
9.1.3. User Coordinate Systems
9.2. 3D Modeling Tools
9.3. Helix and 3D Polyline
9.4. 3D Solids
9.4.1. Creation of Simple Solids
9.4.2. Wall Creation

9.4.3. Frame Density and Isolines
9.4.4. Dynamic Creation of Solid
9.4.5. Convertion to Solid
9.4.6. Solids Manipulation
9.4.7. Managing Solid History and Structure
9.4.8. Handling Subobjects
9.4.9. Solid Editing
9.4.10. Slices
9.4.11. Flatshots
9.5. Smooth Surfaces
9.6. Live Sections
9.7. Faces and Meshes
9.8. 3D Editing
9.9. Exercises to Chapter 9

Chapter 10. Visualization Tools
10.1. Views and Viewports
10.1.1. Areal View
10.1.2. Viewports Configurations
10.1.3. Views
10.2. View Setting
10.3. Cameras
10.4. Visual Styles
10.5. Materials
10.6. Rendering
10.6.1. Light
10.6.2. Textures
10.6.3. Fog
10.6.4. Rendering Preferences
10.7. Navigation and Animation
10.8. Exercises to Chapter 10

Chapter 11. Paper Space
11.1. Switching Between Model and Paper Spaces
11.2. Creation of Viewports in Layout
11.3. Handling Viewports
11.4. Scale Managing
11.5. Editing Viewport Shape
11.6. Creation of a New Drawing with Template
11.7. Special Paper Space Tools
11.8. Adding a Layout
11.9. Exercises to Chapter 11

Chapter 12. Design and Customization Tools
12.1. Collective Work
12.1.1. Markup Set Manager
12.1.2. Etransmitting
12.1.3. Security Options
12.2. Sheet Sets
12.2.1. Sheet Set Creation
12.2.2. Sheet Set Functionality
12.3. System Variables
12.4. AutoCAD Options
12.4.1. Setting Support Files Path
12.4.2. Setting Display Parameters
12.4.3. Setting Opening and Save Parameters
12.4.4. Setting Plot and Publish Parameters
12.4.5. Setting System Parameters
12.4.6. Setting User Parameters
12.4.7. Setting Snap and Tracking
12.4.8. Setting 3D Modeling Mode
12.4.9. Setting Selection Modes
12.4.10. Setting Profiles
12.4.11. Customizing User Interface
12.5. Programming Customization Tools
12.6. Exercises to Chapter 12

Appendix 1. AutoCAD Commands List

Appendix 2. System Variables List

Appendix 3. Express Tools

Literature

Index

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