AutoCAD for Dummies 2023

Title Page\nCopyright Page\nTable of Contents\nIntroduction\n	About This Book\n	Foolish Assumptions\n	Conventions Used in This Book\n		Using the command line\n		Using aliases\n	Icons Used in This Book\n	Beyond the Book\n	Where to Go from Here\nPart 1 Getting Started with AutoCAD\n	Chapter 1 Introducing AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT\n		Launching AutoCAD\n		Drawing in AutoCAD\n		Understanding Pixels and Vectors\n		The Cartesian Coordinate System\n	Chapter 2 The Grand Tour of AutoCAD\n		Looking at AutoCAD’s Drawing Screen\n			For your information\n			Making choices from the Application menu\n			Unraveling the Ribbon\n		Getting with the Program\n			Looking for Mr. Status Bar\n			Using Dynamic Input\n			Let your fingers do the talking: The command line\n			The key(board) to AutoCAD success\n			Keeping tabs on palettes\n			Down the main stretch: The drawing area\n		Fun with F1\n	Chapter 3 A Lap around the CAD Track\n		A Simple Setup\n		Drawing a (Base) Plate\n		Taking a Closer Look with Zoom and Pan\n		Modifying to Make It Merrier\n			Crossing your hatches\n			Now that’s a stretch\n		Following the Plot\n			Plotting the drawing\n			Today’s layer forecast: Freezing\n	Chapter 4 Setup for Success\n		A Setup Roadmap\n			Choosing your units\n			Weighing up your scales\n			Thinking about paper\n			Defending your border\n		A Template for Success\n		Making the Most of Model Space\n			Setting your units\n			Making the drawing area snap-py (and grid-dy)\n			Setting linetype, text, and dimension scales\n			Entering drawing properties\n		Making Templates Your Own\n	Chapter 5 A Zoom with a View\n		Panning and Zooming with Glass and Hand\n			The wheel deal\n			Navigating a drawing\n		Zoom, Zoom, Zoom\n		A View by Any Other Name\n		Degenerating and Regenerating\nPart 2 Let There Be Lines\n	Chapter 6 Along the Straight and Narrow\n		Drawing for Success\n		Introducing the Straight-Line Drawing Commands\n		Drawing Lines and Polylines\n			Toeing the line\n			Connecting the lines with polyline\n		Squaring Off with Rectangles\n		Choosing Sides with POLygon\n	Chapter 7 Dangerous Curves Ahead\n		Throwing Curves\n		Going Full Circle\n		Arc-y-ology\n		Solar Ellipses\n		Splines: Sketchy, Sinuous Curves\n		Donuts: Circles with a Difference\n		Revision Clouds on the Horizon\n		Scoring Points\n	Chapter 8 Preciseliness Is Next to CADliness\n		Controlling Precision\n		Understanding the AutoCAD Coordinate Systems\n			Keyboard capers: Coordinate input\n			Introducing user coordinate systems\n			Drawing by numbers\n		Grabbing an Object and Making It Snappy\n			Grabbing points with object snap overrides\n			Snap goes the cursor\n			Running with object snaps\n		Other Practical Precision Procedures\n	Chapter 9 Manage Your Properties\n		Using Properties with Objects\n			Using the ByLayer approach\n			Changing properties\n		Working with Layers\n			Accumulating properties\n			Creating new layers\n			Manipulating layers\n			Scaling an object’s linetype\n		Using Named Objects\n		Using AutoCAD DesignCenter\n	Chapter 10 Grabbing Onto Object Selection\n		Commanding and Selecting\n			Command-first editing\n			Selection-first editing\n			Direct-object editing\n			Choosing an editing style\n		Selecting Objects\n			One-by-one selection\n			Selection boxes left and right\n			Tying up object selection\n		Perfecting Selecting\n		AutoCAD Groupies\n		Object Selection: Now You See It . . .\n	Chapter 11 Edit for Credit\n		Assembling Your AutoCAD Toolkit\n		The Big Three: Move, COpy, and Stretch\n			Base points and displacements\n			Move\n			COpy\n			Copy between drawings\n			Stretch\n		More Manipulations\n			Mirror, mirror on the monitor\n			ROtate\n			SCale\n			-ARray\n			Offset\n		Slicing, Dicing, and Splicing\n			TRim and EXtend\n			BReak\n			Fillet, CHAmfer, and BLEND\n			Join\n			Other editing commands\n		Getting a Grip\n		When Editing Goes Bad\n		Dare to Compare\n	Chapter 12 Planning for Paper\n		Setting Up a Layout in Paper Space\n			The layout two-step\n			Put it on my tabs\n		Any Old Viewport in a Layout\n			Up and down the detail viewport scales\n			Keeping track of where you’re at\n		Practice Makes Perfect\n		Clever Paper Space Tricks\nPart 3 If Drawings Could Talk\n	Chapter 13 Text with Character\n		Getting Ready to Write\n		Creating Simply Stylish Text\n			Font follies\n			Get in style\n		Taking Your Text to New Heights\n			Plotted text height\n			Calculating non-annotative AutoCAD text height\n		Entering Text\n		Using the Same Old Line\n		Saying More in Multiline Text\n			Making it with mText\n			mText dons a mask\n			Insert Field\n			Doing a number on your mText lists\n			Line up in columns — now!\n			Modifying mText\n		Turning On Annotative Objects\n		Gather Round the Tables\n			Tables have style, too\n			Creating and editing tables\n		Take Me to Your Leader\n			Electing a leader\n			Multi options for multileaders\n	Chapter 14 Entering New Dimensions\n		Adding Dimensions to a Drawing\n		Dimensioning the Legacy Way\n		A Field Guide to Dimensions\n			Self-centered\n			Quick, dimension!\n			Where, oh where, do my dimensions go?\n		The Latest Styles in Dimensioning\n			Creating dimension styles\n			Adjusting style settings\n			Changing styles\n		Scaling Dimensions for Output\n		Editing Dimensions\n			Editing dimension geometry\n			Editing dimension text\n			Controlling and editing dimension associativity\n		And the Correct Layer Is . . .\n	Chapter 15 Down the Hatch!\n		Creating Hatches\n		Hatching Its Own Layer\n		Using the Hatches Tab\n		Scaling Hatches\n			Scaling the easy way\n			Annotative versus non-annotative\n		Pushing the Boundaries of Hatch\n			Adding style\n			Hatches from scratch\n		Editing Hatch Objects\n	Chapter 16 The Plot Thickens\n		You Say “Printing,” I Say “Plotting”\n		The Plot Quickens\n			Plotting success in 16 steps\n			Getting with the system\n			Configuring your printer\n			Preview one, two\n			Instead of fit, scale it\n		Plotting the Layout of the Land\n		Plotting Lineweights and Colors\n			Plotting with style\n			Plotting through thick and thin\n			Plotting in color\n		It’s a (Page) Setup!\n		Continuing the Plot Dialog\n		The Plot Sickens\nPart 4 Advancing with AutoCAD\n	Chapter 17 The ABCs of Blocks\n		Rocking with Blocks\n		Creating Block Definitions\n		Inserting Blocks\n		Attributes: Fill-in-the-Blank Blocks\n			Creating attribute definitions\n			Defining blocks that contain attribute definitions\n			Inserting blocks that contain attribute definitions\n			Editing attribute values\n			Extracting data\n		Exploding Blocks\n		Purging Unused Block Definitions\n	Chapter 18 Everything from Arrays to Xrefs\n		Arraying Associatively\n			Comparing the old and new ARray commands\n			Hip, hip, array!\n			Associatively editing\n		Going External\n			Becoming attached to your xrefs\n			Layer-palooza\n			Editing an external reference file\n			Forging an xref path\n			Managing xrefs\n		Blocks, Xrefs, and Drawing Organization\n		Mastering the Raster\n			Attaching a raster image\n			Maintaining your image\n		You Say PDF; I Say DWF\n		Theme and Variations: Dynamic Blocks\n			Now you see it\n			Lights! Parameters! Actions!\n			Manipulating dynamic blocks\n	Chapter 19 Call the Parametrics!\n		Maintaining Design Intent\n			Defining terms\n			Forget about drawing with precision!\n			Constrain yourself\n		Understanding Geometric Constraints\n			Applying a little more constraint\n			Using inferred constraints\n			You AutoConstrain yourself!\n		Understanding Dimensional Constraints\n			Practice a little constraint\n			Making your drawing even smarter\n			Using Parameters Manager\n			Dimensions or constraints? Have it both ways!\n		Lunchtime!\n	Chapter 20 Drawing on the Internet\n		The Internet and AutoCAD: An Overview\n			You send me\n			Prepare it with eTransmit\n			Rapid eTransmit\n			Increasing cloudiness\n			Bad reception?\n			Help from Reference Manager\n		The Drawing Protection Racket\n		Outgoing!\n			Autodesk weather forecast: Increasing cloud\n			Your head planted firmly in the cloud\n		AutoCAD Web and Mobile\nPart 5 On a 3D Spree\n	Chapter 21 It’s a 3D World After All\n		The 3.5 Kinds of 3D Digital Models\n		Tools of the 3D Trade\n			Warp speed ahead\n			Entering the third dimension\n			Untying the Ribbon and opening some palettes\n		Modeling from Above\n			Using 3D coordinate input\n			Using point filters\n			Object snaps and object snap tracking\n		Changing Work Planes\n			Displaying the UCS icon\n			Adjusting the UCS\n			Orbit à go-go\n			Taking a spin around the cube\n			Grabbing the SteeringWheels\n		Visualizing 3D Objects\n		On a Render Bender\n	Chapter 22 From Drawings to Models\n		Is 3D for Me?\n		Getting Your 3D Bearings\n			Creating a better 3D template\n			Seeing the world from new viewpoints\n		From Drawing to Modeling in 3D\n			Drawing basic 3D objects\n			Gaining a solid foundation\n			Drawing solid primitives\n		Adding the Third Dimension to 2D Objects\n			Adding thickness to a 2D object\n			Extruding open and closed objects\n			Pressing and pulling closed boundaries\n			Lofting open and closed objects\n			Sweeping open and closed objects along a path\n			Revolving open or closed objects around an axis\n		Modifying 3D Objects\n			Selecting subobjects\n			Working with gizmos\n			More 3D variants of 2D commands\n			Editing solids\n	Chapter 23 It’s Showtime!\n		Get the 2D Out of Here!\n			A different point of view\n			Additional 3D tricks\n			AutoCAD’s top model\n		Visualizing the Digital World\n		Adding Lights\n			Default lighting\n			User-defined lights\n			Sunlight\n		Creating and Applying Materials\n		Defining a Background\n		Rendering a 3D Model\n	Chapter 24 AutoCAD Plays Well with Others\n		Get Out of Here!\n			Making a splash with PNG\n			PDF to the rescue\n			What the DWF?\n			3D print\n			But wait! There’s more!\n		Open Up and Let Me In!\n			Editing other drawing file formats\n			PDF editing\n		Translation, Please!\n		The Importance of Being DWG\nPart 6 The Part of Tens\n	Chapter 25 Ten AutoCAD Resources\n		Autodesk Discussion Groups\n		Autodesk’s Own Blogs\n		Autodesk University\n		Autodesk Channel on YouTube\n		World Wide (CAD) Web\n		Your Local Authorized Training Center\n		Your Local User Group\n		Autodesk User Groups International\n		Books\n		Autodesk Feedback Community\n	Chapter 26 Ten System Variables to Make Your AutoCAD Life Easier\n		APERTURE\n		DIMASSOC\n		MENUBAR\n		MIRRTEXT\n		OSNAPZ\n		PICKBOX\n		REMEMBERFOLDERS\n		ROLLOVERTIPS and TOOLTIPS\n		TASKBAR\n		VISRETAIN\n		And the Bonus Round\n	Chapter 27 Ten AutoCAD Secrets\n		Sheet Sets\n		Custom Tool Palettes\n		Ribbon Customization\n		Toolsets\n		Programming Languages\n		Vertical Versions\n		Language Packs\n		Multiple Projects or Clients\n		Data Extraction and Linking\n		Untying the Ribbon and Drawings\nIndex\nEULA