AutoCAD 2015 and AutoCAD LT 2015 Bible E-Book

Ellen Finkelstein

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

The perfect reference for all AutoCAD users

AutoCAD 2015 and AutoCAD LT 2015 Bible is the book you want to have close at hand to answer those day-to-day questions about this industry-leading software. Author and Autodesk University instructor Ellen Finkelstein guides readers through AutoCAD 2015 and AutoCAD LT 2015 with clear, easy-to-understand instruction and hands-on tutorials that allow even total beginners to create a design on their very first day. Although simple and fundamental enough to be used by those new to CAD, the book is so comprehensive that even Autodesk power users will want to keep a copy on their desks.

Here is what you'll find inside the book:

• Part I: Introducing AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT Basics
• Part II: Drawing in Two Dimensions
• Part III: Working with Data
• Part IV: Drawing in Three Dimensions
• Part V: Organizing and Managing Drawings
• Part VI: Customizing AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT
• Part VII: Programming AutoCAD
• Part VIII: Appendixes
• Appendix A: Installing and Configuring AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT
• Appendix B: AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT Resources

In addition, the book also explores advanced techniques like programming with AutoLISP and VBA, and demonstrates AutoCAD 2015 customization that can smooth workflow. The companion website contains real-world drawings for each tutorial, plus bonus chapters and video tutorials. If you need to become an AutoCAD guru, AutoCAD 2015 and AutoCAD LT 2015 Bible is the one resource that will get you there quickly.

Leseprobe

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Ellen Finkelstein

To MMY, for teaching me that there’s more to life than meets the eye and that the deeper levels of life are the most intelligent, powerful, and blissful.

Lee Ambrosius

To Dawn, my favorite and only sister, for being there over the years and encouraging me to dream big.

About the Authors

Ellen Finkelstein learned AutoCAD in 1986 in Israel, where she always got to pore over the manual because it was in English. After returning to the United States, she started consulting and teaching AutoCAD as well as other computer programs, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. She has also taught courses on website creation and Internet marketing. Her website, www.ellenfinkelstein.com, contains tips and techniques for AutoCAD, PowerPoint, and presenting, and she publishes the AutoCAD Tips Blog and the AutoCAD Tips Newsletter. Ellen has written extensively on AutoCAD, including articles for Autodesk’s website and features for AutoCAD’s Help system. Ellen's first book was AutoCAD For Dummies Quick Reference. Since then, she has written books on PowerPoint, OpenOffice.org (OpenOffice.org For Dummies), Flash (including Flash CS5 For Dummies), and web technologies (Syndicating Web Sites with RSS Feeds For Dummies). You’re holding the 14th edition (wow!) of this book, which previously appeared for AutoCAD releases 14, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013.

Lee Ambrosius first started working with AutoCAD R12 for DOS in 1994. As a drafter, he quickly discovered that every project included a lot of repetition. Lee, not being one to settle for “this is just the way things are,” set out on a path that would redefine his career. This new path would lead him into the wondrous world of customization and programming — which you might catch him referring to as “the rabbit hole.” As a self-taught programmer, Lee learned to write AutoCAD-based programs in AutoLISP, VBA, ObjectARX, and Managed .NET. After a few years of absorbing content, he decided to give back to the community that helped him expand his career. Lee first started writing his own articles on his website (www.hyperpics.com) before writing articles in AUGIWorld and HotNews for AUGI (www.augi.com). He has also been working on the AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT product documentation since the 2007 releases of the products. Around 2006, Lee became interested in working on books and has been involved in various editions of the AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT Bible, AutoCAD For Dummies, AutoCAD & AutoCAD LT All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, AutoCAD 3D Modeling Workbook For Dummies, and Mastering AutoCAD for Mac as either a technical editor or author. His most recent book is AutoCAD Platform Customization: User Interface and Beyond.

Credits

Acquisitions Editor

Aaron Black

Project Editor

Martin V. Minner

Technical Editors

Steven D. Papke, AIA

Lee Ambrosius

Copy Editor

Gwenette Gaddis

Manager, Content Development & Assembly

Mary Beth Wakefield

Publisher

Jim Minatel

Editorial Assistant

Claire Johnson

Project Coordinator

Erin Zeltner

AutoCAD 2015 and AutoCAD LT 2015 Bible

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

Is This Book for You?

How This Book Is Organized

How to Use This Book

Doing the Exercises

Conventions Used in This Book

What the Icons Mean

Other Information

Contacting the Authors

Part I: Introducing AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT Basics

Chapter 1: Starting to Draw

Exploring AutoCAD’s Advantages

Comparing AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT

Starting AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT

Creating a New Drawing

Using the AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT Interface

Exploring the drawing area

Exploring the ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar

Using the Application menu

Using the command line and dynamic input tooltip

Exploring the status bar

Creating a New Folder

Using the Interface

Saving a Drawing

Closing a Drawing and Exiting from AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT

Summary

Chapter 2: Opening a Drawing

Creating a New Drawing from a Template

Working with Templates

Creating your own templates

Creating a Drawing with Default Settings

Opening an Existing Drawing

Switching among open drawings

Saving a Drawing under a New Name

Summary

Chapter 3: Using Commands

Understanding the AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT Interface

Working with the ribbon

Displaying and using menus

Using shortcut menus

Working with dialog boxes

Using the Quick Access Toolbar

Managing palettes

Using the Tool Palettes window

Using the Command Line and Dynamic Input

Entering commands with Dynamic Input

Understanding command names

Responding to commands

Repeating commands

Using recent input

Canceling commands

Undoing a command

Redoing a command

Using one command within another command

Using Mice and Pucks

Getting Help

Getting help on a command

Using the main Help system

Summary

Chapter 4: Specifying Coordinates

Understanding the X,Y Coordinate System

Drawing units

Typing coordinates

Using the Dynamic Input tooltip to enter coordinates

Working with absolute Cartesian coordinates

Working with relative Cartesian coordinates

Using polar coordinates

Using direct distance entry

Working in orthogonal mode

Working with polar tracking

Displaying Coordinates

Picking Coordinates on the Screen

Using snap settings

Using object snaps

Running object snaps and Object Snap mode

Overriding Coordinate Settings

Locating Points

Using object snap tracking

Using the temporary tracking feature

Finding points with point filters

Finding offset points with the From feature

Summary

Chapter 5: Setting Up a Drawing

Choosing Unit Types

Setting the drawing units

Setting the angle type

Setting the angle measure and direction

Drawing Limits

Understanding Scales

Working with scale formats

Using annotative scales

Customizing the scale list

Deciding on a scale and sheet size

Creating a Titleblock

Specifying Common Setup Options

Summary

Part II: Drawing in Two Dimensions

Chapter 6: Drawing Simple Lines

Using the LINE Command

Drawing Rectangles

Drawing Polygons

Creating Construction Lines

Creating Rays

Summary

Chapter 7: Drawing Curves and Points

Drawing Circles

Understanding the circle options

Creating circles

Drawing Arcs

Understanding arc options

Creating arcs

Creating Ellipses and Elliptical Arcs

Understanding ellipse options

Understanding elliptical arc options

Drawing ellipses and elliptical arcs

Making Donuts

Understanding DONUT options

Drawing donuts

Placing Points

Changing the point style

Creating points

Summary

Chapter 8: Viewing Your Drawing

Regenerating and Redrawing the Display

Panning

Using the ZOOM Command

Understanding ZOOM options

Using ZOOM Dynamic

Using the SteeringWheels

Creating Named Views

Saving a view

Displaying a view

Managing named views

Creating animated presentations from named views

Using named views to manage a drawing

Working with Tiled Viewports

Configuring tiled viewports

Using tiled viewports

Saving and restoring viewport configurations

Using Snap Rotation

Understanding User Coordinate Systems

Understanding UCS options

Saving and restoring a custom UCS

Controlling the UCS icon

Creating Isometric Drawings

Understanding isometric planes

Drawing in Isometric mode

Summary

Chapter 9: Editing Your Drawing with Basic Tools

Editing a Drawing

Understanding object-selection basics

Erasing objects

Moving objects

Copying objects

Copying and moving objects from one drawing to another

Rotating objects

Scaling objects

Using the CHANGE command

Selecting Objects

Selecting objects after choosing a command

Cycling through objects

Selecting objects before choosing a command

Implied windowing

Customizing the selection process

Summary

Chapter 10: Editing Your Drawing with Advanced Tools

Copying and Moving Objects

Mirroring objects

Using the ARRAY command

Offsetting objects

Aligning objects

Resizing commands

Trimming objects

Extending objects

Lengthening and shortening objects

Stretching objects

Using Construction Commands

Breaking objects

Joining objects

Creating chamfered corners

Creating rounded corners

Creating a Revision Cloud

Hiding Objects with a Wipeout

Constraining Objects with Parameters

Using geometric constraints

Auto-constraining objects

Using dimensional constraints

Working with the Parameters Manager

Double-Clicking to Edit Objects

Editing with Grips

Stretching with grips

Moving with grips

Rotating with grips

Scaling with grips

Mirroring with grips

Customizing grips

Editing with the Quick Properties Palette and the Properties Palette

Using the Quick Properties palette

Using the Properties palette

Working with object selection in the Properties palette

Working with Selection Filters

Using Quick Select to select objects

Using the FILTER command

Naming and editing filters

Using filters

Working with Groups

Creating and modifying groups

Using groups

Summary

Chapter 11: Organizing Drawings with Layers and Object Properties

Working with Layers

Understanding layers

Creating new layers

Using layers

Using special layer tools

Modifying layers

Manipulating Object Color, Linetype, Lineweight, and Transparency

Changing an object’s color

Changing the current color

Altering an object’s linetype

Altering the current linetype

Changing an object’s lineweight

Changing the current lineweight

Altering an object’s transparency

Altering the current transparency

Working with Linetype Scales

Changing linetype spacing by using a different linetype

Changing linetype spacing by changing the global linetype scale

Altering linetype spacing by changing the object linetype scale

Matching Properties

Summary

Chapter 12: Obtaining Information from Your Drawing

Getting Drawing-Level Information

Listing the status of your drawing

Listing system variables

Tracking drawing time

Using Object-Level Information

Listing objects

Finding coordinates

Measuring objects

Getting information from the Properties palette

Getting information from the Quick Properties palette

Accessing Drawing Components

Using the Content Explorer

Finding components with the DesignCenter

Purging unused components

Dividing and Spacing Objects

Dividing objects

Measuring objects

The AutoCAD Calculator

Calculating numbers

Using coordinates

Using object snaps

Using the scientific calculator

Converting units

Working with QuickCalc variables

Using QuickCalc in the Properties palette

Summary

Chapter 13: Creating Text

Creating Single-Line Text

Justifying single-line text

Setting the height

Setting the rotation angle

Adding special characters and formatting

Editing single-line text