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- Herausgeber: Packt Publishing
- Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
- Sprache: Englisch
Computer-aided design (CAD) uses computer systems to assist in the creation, modification, and analysis of a design. DraftSight is a 2D computer-aided design (CAD) software application. DraftSight includes all the main tools to draft with precision, and it works with DWG files, the most popular CAD file type. It runs on a wide variety of operating systems, including Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Getting Started with DraftSight addresses all the main phases for executing and printing a mechanical project. These concepts and commands can easily be applied to other areas. Beginning with the very basic concepts, and going through all the necessary drawing steps, you will finish by printing a full scale mechanical drawing. The illustrative examples will help you understand the design process and teach you how to utilize DraftSight features in your mechanical design projects.
You will start with an overview of the mechanical design process, which will help you understand the different commands, tools, and tasks involved in DraftSight projects. You will then proceed to executing all the phases of the design process. This includes setting up a drawing, drawing and editing with precision, organizing with layers, and finally obtaining valid information from the drawing. Furthermore, you will also learn to apply fills, patterns, and dimensions, and the process of defining and printing sheets.
With "GettingStarted with DraftSight" you will learn how to specify and document parts and print drawings with the help of DraftSight. Towards the end of this book you will be introduced to some advanced concepts like additional layer commands, and methods to reference other drawings or images, which can be very useful when dealing with complex projects.
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Getting Started with DraftSight
Getting Started with DraftSight
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First published: August 2013
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Credits
Author
João Santos
Reviewers
Deepak Gupta
Mark Lyons
Neb Radojkovic
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About the Author
João Santos is the manager and main instructor at QualiCAD (www.qualicad.com), one of the most important Portuguese ATCs (Autodesk Authorized Training Center), based in Lisbon. With a degree in Mechanical Engineering, he has been teaching AutoCAD for more than 25 years and, most recently teaching several AutoCAD clones such as DraftSight, ZW CAD, ProgeCAD, BitCAD. He is an AutoCAD 2013 and 3ds Max 2013 Certified professional user and instructor, being also the Portuguese instructor in these technologies with more students. João is the author and co-author of more than 40 Portuguese AutoCAD and 3ds Max books. He is also the author of Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Practical 3D Drafting and Design, Packt Publishing.
First of all, I would like to thank my family for all their support and guidance. No less important are all my friends, students, readers and colleagues for their continuous questions, feedback, suggestions, and basically shaping my career. And I would also like to express my gratitude to everyone at Packt for this opportunity and collaboration.
About the Reviewers
Deepak Gupta graduated in 2000 from Indo Swiss Training Centre, (Chandigarh, India). With over 12 years of rich experience working with various industries, he has been working in different roles with different product lines. His main area of experience and interest has been the design and manufacturing processes along with team and project management.
He is working as Technical Director at Vishnu Design Services, an Engineering and CAD outsourcing service provider based in Chandigarh, India, offering wide range of CAD design, drafting, and engineering services. Being a certified SolidWorks expert and user for the last 7 years, Deepak is passionate about working with SolidWorks. Besides working for Vishnu Design Services, he enjoys writing for his own blog, Boxer's SolidWorks Blog where he writes tips, tricks, tutorials, and news about SolidWorks. In addition to this, he has participated in various SolidWorks World Conferences as a press member.
An important aspect of his life is his family—his parents, his wife, a 5-month old son, and other family members. He loves to travel and make friends.
I would like to thank my wife, Swati Gupta, for her love, kindness, and support she has shown during the past few weeks it has taken me to review this book. Furthermore I would also like to thank my parents for their endless love and support. I would also like to thank João Santos for writing such a great book, which I enjoyed reading more than simply reviewing. Last but not least, I would like to thank the Packt Publishing team for choosing me as one of the reviewers of this book and helping me out to complete the review of this book
This book is more like a mystery with secrets in every chapter. Don't miss out on your chance to explore them.
Mark Lyons works for Dassault Systèmes as the Product Manager for DraftSight. He is the principal of The Lyons' Share™ resource center for DraftSight. Prior to this position, he has been the Training Specialist for DraftSight since December 2008. Before taking this position, Mark was employed as CAD instructor at two regional high schools in Massachusetts. He began his career as a Mechanical Draftsman creating drawings the old fashioned way, with pencil and paper. He has worked in this industry since 1981, and has used many CAD products.
Neb Radojkovic comes from a technical family. Neb started technical (manual) drafting straight after high school in 1979. Over the years and while using his other skills, such as model making and painting, in 1990, Neb was introduced to AutoCAD. From that point on, Neb used AutoCAD to the best of his ability (self-taught) until he finished a 6-months course in AutoCAD 2D and 3D in 2000. His first job as an AutoCAD Operator was in the Doors and Windows manufacturing firm. Soon enough Neb was in search of more challenge, so he became a sole AutoCAD Draftsperson in a Kitchen Manufacturing business. He became expert in cabinetry, millwork and Interiors Drafting and Design using several software: AutoCAD, SolidWorks, DraftSight, and ARES Commander, to mention a few. Since 2008 Neb has been the owner and principal of Cadesigneb.com—his Interiors AutoCAD Drafting business. Neb is now also exploring CAD and 3D Photo Realistic Rendering. As a form of relaxation, Neb enjoys making Logos and Website Designs.
The main companies that Neb worked at were:
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Preface
DraftSight is a free CAD program that uses the DWG file format. It includes all the main tools to produce precise technical drawings and runs on a wide variety of operating systems, including Windows, Mac and Linux. The DWG file format is the most used CAD (Computer Aided Design) format, widely spread in all areas of technical drawings.
DraftSight runs in 15 languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese (traditional and simplified), and Russian. DraftSight is free for any personal or commercial application.
With a practical project and many illustrations, this book addresses all the main phases for executing a mechanical project, including setting up a drawing, drawing and editing with precision, organizing with layers and obtaining valid information from the drawing, applying patterns and dimension, and defining and printing sheets.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Introduction to DraftSight, includes an introduction to DraftSight, where to download it, how to start and configure it, creating and configuring a drawing, and all the commands to open, save and close drawings.
Chapter 2, Drawing with Precision, includes all the important tools that allow drawing with precision, namely coordinates and graphical auxiliary tools, how to draw lines and erase entities, and also the most important visualization commands.
Chapter 3, Starting to Create Projects, includes the most important commands to start creating projects, including different types of entities creation such as circles, arcs, rectangles, and polygons. This chapter also covers modification, such as moving, rotating, scaling, copying, mirroring, creating parallel entities, and moving vertices.
Chapter 4, Structuring Projects and Following Standards, includes the main entity properties essential to a correct structure of any drawing, layer being the most important. Three other important properties normally controlled by layer are color, linestyles, and lineweights.
Chapter 5, Inquiring Projects and Modifying Properties, includes several commands for obtaining information in the drawing, two commands to modify entities properties, and a command to select entities based on properties values.
Chapter 6, Creating Complex Projects, includes several commands that allow specific functions important to create complex projects, such as text and text styles, polylines, equally spaced copies, ellipses, rings, revision clouds, tables and table styles, joining and splitting entities.
Chapter 7, Creating and Applying Components, includes commands related to the creation, insertion and other operations about components (blocks). A component, or block, is a set of entities belonging to one or more layers that are grouped together and that can be used as a single element.
Chapter 8, Applying Fills and Patterns, presents hatches, which represent sections, cuts, or materials. Hatches can be a regular pattern composed by families of lines, a single color, or a gradient between two colors.
Chapter 9, Documenting Projects, includes the commands used to document or dimension a drawing, such as linear dimensions, angular dimensions, radius and diameters, ordinate and leader dimensions. Also included are the commands to edit dimensions and dimension styles.
Chapter 10, Printing Efficiently, includes the preparation of sheets for printing, previewing and printing drawings. The concept of sheet, and it's advantages, is introduced.
Chapter 11, Advanced Tools, introduces some advanced concepts and commands, namely referencing other drawings and images, and additional layer commands, very useful when dealing with complex drawings.
What you need for this book
To correctly follow this book and realize all exercises, we need to have DraftSight software, preferably the latest version (V1R3.1 or later). Readers must also download Exercise files from the book's webpage.
Who this book is for
This book is intended for everyone who wants to create accurate 2D drawings in a DWG format file. Examples are from the Mechanical area, but the book can be also useful to architectural, engineering or design professionals, and students. Only some basic computer knowledge, such as dealing with files or using a mouse, is required.
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Chapter 1. Introduction to DraftSight
DraftSight is a free CAD program that uses the DWG file format. It includes all the main tools to produce precise technical drawings and runs on a wide variety of operating systems, including Windows, Mac, and Linux.
We will cover the following topics in this chapter:
Downloading and starting DraftSight
The DWG file format is the most used Computer Aided Design (CAD) format. It is used in all areas of technical drawings. Another drawing file format is DXF, mainly used for communication between CAD programs. There are several programs that work with DWG and DXF files, with similar commands and work processes, with DraftSight being among them.
Dassault Systèmes (www.3ds.com), one of the two major CAD companies in the world, licenses the ARES Commander software from Graebert GmbH (www.graebert.com) and uses it as the CAD engine. The first version was released in February 2011. Currently there are versions for Windows 32-bit, Windows 64-bit (XP, Vista, and 7), Mac OS X, and several Linux operating systems (Fedora, Suze, Mandriva, or Ubuntu).
Actually, there are 15 languages available, including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese (traditional and simplified), and Russian. DraftSight is free for any personal or commercial application.
DraftSight can be downloaded from www.draftsight.com, selecting the proper operating system. The executable file is around 100 MB and installs very fast. It does not prompt for the language selection, thus installing the local language, but this can be changed after starting DraftSight.
After installation, DraftSight can be initiated by double-clicking the DraftSight desktop icon or by accessing the Windows Start menu and navigating to All Programs | DassaultSystemes | DraftSight.
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Understanding the user interface
When starting DraftSight, its graphical user interface is displayed with a blank new drawing called NONAME_0.DWG. The interface can be customized; it contains the following elements by default, which are displayed in the screenshot in the following section:
