Introduction xvii
CHAPTER 1 Getting Started 1CHAPTER 2 Basic Drawing Skills 15
CHAPTER 3 Using Drawing Aids 41
CHAPTER 4 Editing Entities 57
CHAPTER 5 Shaping Curves 85
CHAPTER 6 Controlling Object Visibility and Appearance 105
CHAPTER 7 Organizing Objects 129
CHAPTER 8 Hatching and Gradients 153
CHAPTER 9 Working with Blocks and Xrefs 171
CHAPTER 10 Creating and Editing Text 193
CHAPTER 11 Dimensioning 207
CHAPTER 12 Keeping In Control with Constraints 227
CHAPTER 13 Working with Layouts and Annotative Objects 241
CHAPTER 14 Printing and Plotting 263
CHAPTER 15 Working with Data 289
CHAPTER 16 Navigating 3D Models 317
CHAPTER 17 Modeling in 3D 337
CHAPTER 18 Presenting and Documenting 3D Design 365
APPENDIX Autodesk AutoCAD 2014 Certification 389
Index 397
Introduction
The staying power of AutoCAD® is legendary in the ever-changing software industry, having been around for 32 years by 2014. You can rest assured that spending your time learning AutoCAD will be a wise investment, and the skills you obtain in this book will be useful for years to come.
I wish to welcome you in beginning the process of learning AutoCAD. It will give you great satisfaction to learn such a complex program and use it to design and document whatever you dream up. You’ll find step-by-step tutorials that reveal a wide variety of techniques built on many years of real-world experience.
The first 14 chapters apply to both AutoCAD® 2014 and AutoCAD LT® 2014. AutoCAD LT is Autodesk’s lower-cost version of AutoCAD, and it has reduced capabilities. Chapters 15 through 18 are for full AutoCAD users only as they cover advanced tools not available in AutoCAD LT, including attributes, 3D navigation, 3D modeling, and rendering.
Who Should Read This Book
This book is for students, hobbyists, professional architects, industrial designers, engineers, builders, landscape architects, or anyone who communicates through technical drawings as part of their work.
If you’re interested in certification for AutoCAD 2014, this book can be a great resource to help you prepare. See www.autodesk.com/certification for more certification information and resources. This book also features an appendix that can help you focus your studies on the skills you will need for the certification exams.
What You Will Learn
You’ll gain a solid understanding of the features of AutoCAD in this book. Each chapter features multiple exercises that take you step by step through the many complex procedures of AutoCAD. The goal of performing these steps on your own is to develop skills that you can apply to many different real-world situations.
Although each project presents different obstacles and opportunities, I urge you to focus on the concepts and techniques presented rather than memorizing the specific steps used to achieve the desired result. The actual steps performed may vary in each geometric situation.
The best way to build skills is to perform the steps on your computer exactly as they are presented in the book during your first reading. After you achieve the desired result, start over and experiment using the same techniques on your own project (whether invented or real). After you have practiced, think about how you have achieved the desired result and you will get the most out of this book.
Reader Requirements
You don’t need any previous experience with AutoCAD to use this book. However, you’ll need familiarity with either the Windows or Mac operating system and have the basic skills necessary to use a graphical user interface successfully and to operate a computer confidently.
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