BHV-Petersburg published in 2015:

35. N.Poleshchuk. "AutoCAD 2015 - Self-Teacher" ("Self-Teacher" series). BHV-Petersburg, 2015, 464 pp. ISBN 9978-5-9775-3512-0. The book is based on author's methodics for teaching parametrical drawing and 3D modeling in the AutoCAD system. Approaches to graphical documents creation are shown. Styles technology (for texts, dimensions, sections and detail views) will help to prepare drawings by standards. Discovered stages of building, visualization and animation for 3D models. Described new operations on point clouds. There are examples and exercises for better learning. The book will be useful for engineers, designers, postgraduates and students.

Forword Chapter 1. General 1.1. System Usage 1.2. Computer Requirements 1.3. User Interface 1.3.1. Ribbon 1.3.2. Application Menu 1.3.3. Menubar and Toolbars 1.3.4. Workspaces 1.4. Dialog with the System 1.4.1. Keyboard Input of Commands 1.5. Drawing Files 1.6. Text Window 1.7. User Workspace 1.8. Exercises to Chapter 1 Chapter 2. Main Entities and Drafting Modes 2.1. Drafting Principles 2.2. Lines 2.2.1. Using Shortcut Menu 2.2.2. Access to Options with Table 2.2.3. Entity Continuation 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. Lineweight Display Mode 2.4.3. Quick Properties Mode 2.4.4. Drafting Modes Settings 2.4.5. Status Line and Tray Setting 2.4.6. Viewing Drawing and Its Parts 2.5. Points 2.5.1. Point Styles 2.5.2. Removing Extra 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. Building New Similar Objects 2.12. Inquiries 2.13. Exercises to Chapter 2 Chapter 3. Complex Entities 3.1. Multilines 3.2. Texts 3.2.1. Single Line Text 3.2.2. Multiline Text 3.3. Using Fields 3.4. Tables 3.5. Dimensions, Tolerances and Leaders 3.5.1. Linear and Parallel Dimensions 3.5.2. Arc Length Dimension 3.5.3. Ordinate Dimension 3.5.4. Radius Dimension 3.5.5. Diameter Dimension 3.5.6. Angular Dimension 3.5.7. Quick Dimension 3.5.8. Base Dimension 3.5.9. Continued Dimension 3.5.10. Dimension Line Break and Jog 3.5.11. Inspection Dimension 3.5.12. Tolerance 3.5.13. Center Mark 3.5.14. Leader and Multileader 3.6. Hatches and Fills 3.6.1. Hatches 3.6.2. Solid Fills 3.6.3. Gradient Fills 3.6.4. Using Tool Palettes 3.7. Ellipses 3.8. Splines 3.9. Regions 3.10. Rare Entities 3.11. Exercises to Chapter 3 Chapter 4. Entity Editing 4.1. Grips and Object Selection 4.1.1. Editing with Grips 4.1.2. Editing Shortcut Menu 4.1.3. Selection Tools 4.1.4. Groups 4.2. General Editing Commands 4.3. Polyline Editing 4.4. Multiline Editing 4.5. Text Editing 4.6. Table Editing 4.7. Dimension Editing 4.8. Hatch and Fill Editing 4.9. Spline Editing 4.10. Multileader Editing 4.11. Region Editing 4.12. Annotation Monitor 4.13. Exercises to Chapter 4

Chapter 5. Properties 5.1. Color 5.2. Linetype and Scale 5.3. Layer 5.4. Lineweight 5.5. Annotation Scale 5.6. Other Properties 5.7. Editing Properties 5.8. Exercises to Chapter 5 Chapter 6. Drafting Styles (archive) 6.1. Text Styles 6.2. Dimension Styles 6.3. Multiline Styles 6.4. Table Styles 6.5. Multileader Styles 6.6. DesignCenter 6.7. Standards 6.8. Exercises to Chapter 6 Chapter 7. Constraints 7.1. Geometric Constraints 7.1.1. Adding Constraints 7.1.2. Removing Constraints 7.1.3. Constraint Bars Managing 7.1.4. Autoconstrain 7.2. Dimensional Constraints 7.2.1. Adding Constraints 7.2.2. Parameters Manager 7.2.3. Dynamic and Annotational Forms of Constraints 7.3. Exercises to Chapter 7 Chapter 8. Blocks and DWG References 8.1. Blocks 8.1.1. Block Definition 8.1.2. Block Insertion 8.1.3. Block Reference 8.1.4. Export of Drawing and Its Parts 8.1.5. Attributes 8.1.6. Using Clipboard 8.1.7. Dynamic Properties Creation 8.1.8. Parameters and Actions 8.1.9. Visibility States 8.1.10. Lookup Tables 8.1.11. Tool Palettes 8.2. DWG References 8.2.1. DWG Reference Insertion 8.2.2. External References Manager 8.3. Reference Editing 8.3.1. Editing Block Attributes 8.3.2. Clipping Block and DWG References 8.3.3. In-Place Editing Block and DWG References 8.4. Exercises to Chapter 8 Chapter 9. Interaction with Other Format Files (archive) 9.1. Inserting and Editing Raster Images 9.2. Wipeout Entity 9.3. Import from Other Formats 9.4. Data Links to Excel Tables 9.5. Export into Other Formats 9.6. Data Extraction 9.7. Exercises to Chapter 9 Chapter 10. 3D Modeling 10.1. Coordinate Systems and Views 10.1.1. Construction Plane 10.1.2. Views and Viewport Management Panel 10.1.3. Isometric Views 10.1.4. Perspective Projection 10.2. Managing Model Viewing 10.2.1. Orbit Commands 10.2.2. SteerWheels 10.2.3. ViewCube 10.3. Elevation and Thickness 10.4. Coordinate Systems 10.4.1. UCS Icon Object 10.4.2. UCS Command 10.4.3. UCSMAN Command 10.4.4. Continuation of Example 10.4.5. DUCS Mode 10.5. 3D Modeling Tools 10.6. Helix and 3D Polyline 10.7. Faces and Meshes 10.7.1. Smoothness Level 10.7.2. Mesh Modeling Settings 10.7.3. Standard Meshes (Primitives) 10.7.4. Changing Smoothness Level 10.7.5. Editing with Subobjects 10.7.6. Mesh Tesselation 10.7.7. Splitting Face 10.7.8. Extruding face 10.7.9. Creases 10.7.10. Conversion of Meshes to Surfaces and Solids 10.8. 3D Solids 10.8.1. Creation of Standard Solids 10.8.2. Wall Creation

10.8.3. Frame Density and Isolines 10.8.4. Dynamic Creation of Solid 10.8.5. Conversion to Solid 10.8.6. Solids Manipulation 10.8.7. Managing Solid History and Structure 10.8.8. Handling Subobjects 10.8.9. Solid Editing 10.8.10. Slices 10.8.11. Flatshots 10.9. Procedural and NURBS Surfaces 10.9.1. Important System Variables 10.9.2. Surface Creation 10.9.3. Editing Surface Form 10.9.4. More Complex Editing 10.9.5. Surface Analysis 10.9.6. Projecting Geometry 10.10. Live Sections 10.11. 3D Editing 10.12. Point Clouds 10.13. Exercises to Chapter 10 Chapter 11. Visualization Tools (archive) 11.1. Views and Viewports 11.1.1. Viewports Configurations 11.1.2. Views 11.2. View Setting 11.2.1. Clipping Planes 11.2.2. UCS Plan View 11.3. Cameras 11.4. Visual Styles 11.5. Materials 11.6. Rendering 11.6.1. Light 11.6.2. Textures 11.6.3. Fog 11.6.4. Advanced Rendering Settings 11.6.5. Rendering in Cloud 11.7. Walk and Fly 11.8. Motion Path Animation 11.9. Animated Views 11.10. ShowMotion 11.11. Exercises to Chapter 11 Chapter 12. Paper Space 12.1. Switching Between Model and Paper Spaces 12.2. Creation of Viewports in Layout 12.3. Handling Viewports 12.4. Scale Managing 12.5. Editing Viewport Shape 12.6. Creation of Drawing Template 12.7. Special Paper Space Views Tools 12.8. Adding a Layout 12.9. Sheet Sets 12.10. Exercises to Chapter 12 Chapter 13. Plotting and Publishing (archive) 13.1. Using Plotter (Printer) 13.2. Plot Setting 13.2.1. Plot Stamp 13.2.2. List of Standard Scales 13.3. Plot Styles 13.4. Publishing 13.5. 3D Print 13.6. Exercises to Chapter 13 Chapter 14. Design and Customization Tools (archive) 14.1. AutoCAD Settings 14.1.1. Setting Support Files Path 14.1.2. Setting Display Parameters 14.1.3. Setting Opening and Save Parameters 14.1.4. Setting Plot and Publish Parameters 14.1.5. Setting System Parameters 14.1.6. Setting User Parameters 14.1.7. Setting Snap and Tracking 14.1.8. Setting 3D Modeling Mode 14.1.9. Setting Selection Modes 14.1.10. Setting Profiles 14.1.11. Setting Cloud Operations 14.1.12. Customizing User Interface 14.2. Action Recorder 14.3. Vertical Products 14.4. Programming Customization Tools 14.5. Autodesk Content Explorer 14.6. Autodesk 360 Cloud 14.7. AutoCAD WS 14.8. Exercises to Chapter 14 Appendix 1. AutoCAD Commands List Appendix 2. System Variables List Appendix 3. Express Tools Appendix 4. Electronic Archive Description Literature Index