kendrol CAD teaching series: AutoCAD Beginner’s Guide to 2D & 3D Drawings By Kendrol Philips.
Contents:
By Kendrol Philips
Chapter 1 Getting to Know AutoCAD for Windows
⏩Starting AutoCAD for Windows
⏩Exploring the User Interface
⏩Using the New Tab
⏩Introducing Workspaces
⏩Exploring the Drafting & Annotation Workspace
⏩Putting the User Interface to Work
⏩Using the Ribbon
⏩Using File Tabs to Manage Drawings
⏩Working in the Command-Line Interface
⏩Understanding the Status Bar
⏩Using the Application Menu
⏩Using the Keyboard
⏩Using the Mouse
⏩If You Would Like More Practice
⏩Are You Experienced?
Chapter 2 Learning Basic Commands to Get Started
⏩Using the Line Tool
⏩Using Coordinates
⏩Using Relative Coordinates
⏩Using the Direct Distance Method
⏩Drawing the Shape
⏩Using Relative Cartesian Coordinates
⏩Erasing Lines
⏩Using Relative Polar Coordinates
⏩Using Direct Input
⏩Using the Offset Command
⏩Using the Fillet Command
⏩Completing the Shape
⏩Offsetting Lines to Mark an Opening
⏩Extending Lines
⏩Trimming Lines
⏩If You Would Like More Practice
⏩Are You Experienced?
Chapter 3 Setting Up a Drawing
⏩Setting Up the Drawing Units
⏩Setting Up the Drawing Size
⏩Using the Grid
⏩Setting Up Drawing Limits
⏩Drawing with Grid and Snap
⏩Taking a Closer Look at Dynamic Input
⏩Saving Your Work
⏩Saving Drawings to Your Hard Drive or Network Drive
⏩Saving Drawings to Autodesk 360 Storage
⏩Understanding AutoCAD Units
⏩Exploring Options for Linear Units
⏩Exploring Options for Angular Units
⏩Are You Experienced?
Chapter 4 Developing Drawing Strategies: Part 1
⏩Laying Out the Walls
⏩Creating Polylines from Existing Objects
⏩Creating and Editing Polylines
⏩Creating the Exterior Wall Lines
⏩Creating the Interior Walls
⏩Cutting Openings in the Walls
⏩Creating Doors
⏩Drawing Swinging Doors
⏩Copying Objects
⏩Mirroring Objects
⏩Scaling the Bathroom Door
⏩Drawing a Sliding Glass Door
⏩Drawing the Bifold Doors
⏩Reviewing Drawing Strategies Used in This Chapter
⏩If You Would Like More Practice
⏩An Alternative Sliding Glass Door
⏩An Addition to the Cabin
⏩Three Views of a Block
⏩Are You Experienced?
Chapter 5 Developing Drawing Strategies: Part 2
⏩Starting and Running Commands
⏩Drawing the Thresholds
⏩Drawing the Front Threshold
⏩Drawing the Back Threshold
⏩Drawing the Decks and Stairs
⏩Drawing the Front Deck
⏩Drawing the Deck Posts
⏩Drawing the Stairs
⏩Mirroring the Post and Railing
⏩Drawing the Back Deck and Stairs
⏩Using Point Filters to Finish the Deck
⏩Laying Out the Kitchen
⏩Drawing the Counter
⏩Drawing the Stove and Refrigerator
⏩Completing the Stove with Parametrics
⏩Drawing the Kitchen Sink
⏩Constructing the Bathroom
⏩Setting Running Object Snaps
⏩Drawing a Shower Unit
⏩Drawing the Bathroom Sink and Mirror
⏩Positioning the Toilet and Shelves
⏩Drawing the Hot Tub
⏩If You Would Like More Practice
⏩Drawing the Cabin Again
⏩Drawing Something Else
⏩Drawing Furniture for the Cabin
⏩Drawing a Gasket
⏩Drawing a Parking Lot
⏩Are You Experienced?
Chapter 6 Using Layers to Organize Your Drawing
⏩Using Layers as an Organizing Tool
⏩Setting Up Layers
⏩Assigning Linetypes to Layers
⏩Assigning Objects to Layers
⏩Turning Off and Freezing Layers
⏩Drawing the Headers
⏩Drawing the Roof
⏩Setting a Linetype Scale Factor
⏩Drawing the Ridgeline
⏩Using the Layer Walk Tool
⏩Setting Properties of Layers and Objects
⏩Assigning a Color or a Linetype to an Object Instead of a Layer
⏩Making a Color or a Linetype Current
⏩Using the Action Recorder
⏩If You Would Like More Practice
⏩Creating a Layer State
⏩Setting Up Layers for Your Trade or Profession
⏩Are You Experienced?
Chapter 7 Combining Objects into Blocks
⏩Making a Block for a Door
⏩Inserting the Door Block
⏩Understanding and Using Groups
⏩Finding Blocks in a Drawing
⏩Using Grips to Detect a Block
⏩Using the LIST Command to Detect a Block
⏩Using the Properties Palette to Examine a Block
⏩Creating a Window Block
⏩Inserting the Window Block
⏩Rotating a Block during Insertion
⏩Using Snap Tracking to Set the Insertion Point
⏩Changing a Block’s Scale Factor by Using Object Properties
⏩Finishing the Windows
⏩Revising a Block
⏩Sharing Information between Drawings
⏩Copying Objects between Drawings
⏩Using the AutoCAD DesignCenter
⏩Using Other Ways to Share Information between Drawings
⏩If You Would Like More Practice
⏩Are You Experienced?
Chapter 8 Controlling Text in a Drawing
⏩Setting Up Text Styles
⏩Determining the Text and Drawing Scales
⏩Defining a Text Style for View Titles
⏩Placing Titles of Views in the Drawing
⏩Using Annotative Text
⏩Defining an Annotative Text Style
⏩Placing Room Labels in the Floor Plan
⏩Using Text in a Grid
⏩Creating a Border and Title Block
⏩Using Multiline Text
⏩Finishing the Title Block
⏩Using Mtext for General Notes
⏩Using the Spell-Check Feature
⏩Exploring Other Aspects of Multiline Text
⏩If You Would Like More Practice
⏩Are You Experienced?
Chapter 9 Using Dynamic Blocks and Tables
⏩Using Attributes for a Grid
⏩Defining Blocks with Attributes
⏩Inserting Blocks with Attributes
⏩Editing Attribute Text
⏩Setting Up Multiple Attributes in a Block
⏩Defining a Block with Multiple Attributes
⏩Calculating Areas
⏩Inserting the Room Information Block
⏩Editing Attributes
⏩Controlling the Visibility of Attributes
⏩Exploring Other Uses for Attributes
⏩Creating a Dynamic Block
⏩Setting Up Parameters and Actions
⏩Fine-Tuning the Dynamic Block with the Properties Palette
⏩Inserting a Dynamic Block
⏩Creating a Table
⏩Defining a Table Style
⏩Designing a Table
⏩Adding Formulas to a Table
⏩Creating Tables from Attributes
⏩Modifying the Table Display
⏩If You Would Like More Practice
⏩Are You Experienced?
Chapter 10 Generating Elevations
⏩Drawing the South Elevation
⏩Creating the South Elevation
⏩Setting Up Lines for the Heights
⏩Using Construction Lines to Project Elevation Points
⏩Copying Objects by Using Grips
⏩Trimming Lines in the Elevation
⏩Assigning Elevation Layers
⏩Drawing the Decks in Elevation
⏩Generating the Other Elevations
⏩Making the Opposite Elevation
⏩Revising the New South Elevation
⏩Making the Front and Back Elevations
⏩Considering Drawing Scale Issues
⏩Drawing Interior Elevations
⏩If You Would Like More Practice
⏩Are You Experienced?
Chapter 11 Working with Hatches, Gradients, and Tool Palettes
⏩Hatching the South Elevation
⏩Looking at Hatch Patterns
⏩Hatching the Rest of the South Elevation
⏩Using Hatches in the Floor Plan
⏩Creating the User-Defined Hatch Pattern
⏩Controlling the Origin of the Hatch Pattern
⏩Finishing the Hatches for the Floors
⏩Modifying the Shape of Hatch Patterns
⏩Creating and Managing Tool Palettes
⏩Creating a New Tool Palette
⏩Setting Up a Palette for Hatches
⏩Creating a Palette for Commands
⏩If You Would Like More Practice
⏩Creating the Hatch Patterns for the Other Elevations
⏩Are You Experienced?
Chapter 12 Dimensioning a Drawing
⏩Introducing Dimension Styles
⏩Preparing for Dimensioning
⏩Creating a Text Style for Dimensions
⏩Making a New Dimension Style
⏩Setting Up the Primary Units Tab (Architectural)
⏩Setting Up the Primary Units Tab (Metric)
⏩Completing the Dimension Style Setup
⏩Exploring the Alternate Units and Tolerances Tabs
⏩Placing Dimensions on the Drawing
⏩Placing Horizontal Dimensions
⏩Using the Dimension Continue Command
⏩Using the Dimension Baseline Command
⏩Setting Up Vertical Dimensions
⏩Finishing the Dimensions
⏩Using Other Types of Dimensions
⏩Using Radial Dimensions
⏩Adding a Diameter Dimension
⏩Adding an Arc Length
⏩Setting Up Parent and Child Dimensioning Styles
⏩Using Aligned and Angular Dimensions
⏩Using Leader Lines
⏩Modifying Dimensions
⏩Editing Dimension Text Content
⏩Moving Dimensions
⏩Adjusting Space between Stacked Dimensions
⏩Using Dimension Overrides
⏩Dimensioning Short Distances
⏩If You Would Like More Practice
⏩Dimensioning the Garage Addition
⏩Dimensioning to a Centerline
⏩Practicing on Your Own
⏩Are You Experienced?
Chapter 13 Managing External References
⏩Drawing a Site Plan
⏩Using Surveyor’s Units
⏩Drawing the Driveway
⏩Setting Up an External Reference
⏩Using the External References Palette
⏩Organizing the Drawing Objects
⏩Moving and Rotating an Xref
⏩Modifying an Xref Drawing
⏩Modifying an Xref by Making It the Current Drawing
⏩Modifying an Xref from within the Host Drawing
⏩Adding an Image to a Drawing
⏩Putting Xrefs to Use
⏩Exploring Additional Xref Features
⏩Setting the Xref Path
⏩Changing Path Types
⏩Binding Xrefs
⏩Exploring on Your Own
⏩If You Would Like More Practice
⏩Building Architectural References
⏩Comparing Reference Types
⏩Are You Experienced?
Chapter 14 Using Layouts to Set Up a Print
⏩Preparing the Title Block
⏩Creating the Title Block Drawing
⏩Sizing and Cleaning Up the Title Block
⏩Defining the Title Block Attributes
⏩Setting Up a Sheet Template
⏩Finishing the Sheet Template
⏩Creating Plan Sheets
⏩Creating the Cover Sheet
⏩Generating Floor Plan Sheets
⏩Composing the Floor Plan Sheets
⏩Creating Elevation Sheets
⏩Composing the South Elevation
⏩Composing the Other Elevations
⏩Using Sheet Set Manager
⏩Creating a New Sheet Set
⏩Adding Drawings to a Sheet Set
⏩Defining Sheet Properties
⏩If You Would Like More Practice
⏩Are You Experienced?
Chapter 15 Printing a Drawing
⏩Using the Plot Dialog Box
⏩Assigning Lineweights to a Drawing
⏩Assigning Lineweights to Layers
⏩Updating Xref Layer Definitions
⏩Plotting from Model Space
⏩Configuring the Plot
⏩Previewing a Print
⏩Plotting a Drawing Using Layouts
⏩Publishing a Single Layout
⏩Publishing Multiple Layouts
⏩Publishing with Sheet Set Manager
⏩A Few Words about Plot Styles
⏩Introducing Plot Style Table Files
⏩Understanding How Plot-Style Table Files Are Organized
⏩Going Forward
⏩If You Would Like More Practice
⏩Are You Experienced?
Chapter 16 Creating 3D Geometry
⏩Modeling in 3D
⏩Setting Up the 3D Workspace and Environment
⏩Making the Walls
⏩Creating the Door and Window Block-Outs
⏩Moving and Rotating in 3D
⏩Using the First Right-Hand Rule
⏩Cutting the Openings
⏩Creating the Floor, Foundation, and Thresholds
⏩Creating the Foundation and Supports
⏩Building the Windows
⏩Navigating with the ViewCube
⏩Adding the Sliding Door
⏩Building the Decks
⏩Putting a Roof on the Cabin
⏩Getting Further Directions in 3D
⏩Using Other Solid-Modeling Tools
⏩Using Mesh-Modeling Tools
⏩Using Surface-Modeling Tools
⏩If You Would Like More Practice
⏩Are You Experienced?
Chapter 17 Rendering and Materials
⏩Creating Cameras to Reproduce Views
⏩Using the Loft Tool
⏩Creating the Cameras
⏩Creating a Lighting Scheme
⏩Creating a Light Source
⏩Enabling Shadows
⏩Creating the First Render
⏩Controlling the Background of the Rendering
⏩Adding Materials
⏩Adjusting the Material Mapping
⏩Rendering to a File
⏩If You Would Like More Practice
⏩Are You Experienced?
kendrol CAD teaching series.
Book Details:
➥Author: Kendrol Philips
➥Language: English
➥Size: 23.7 MB
➥Pages: 1023
➥Format: PDF
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