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Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
About the Book
Chapter 1 AutoCAD 2024 Basics
1.1 Starting AutoCAD
1.2 AutoCAD 2024 Interface
1.2.1 Application Menu
1.2.2 Quick Access Toolbar
1.2.3 Ribbons
1.2.4 InfoCenter
1.2.5 Command Window
1.2.6 Graphical Area
1.2.7 Status Bar
1.2.8 Start Tab
1.3 AutoCAD Defaults
1.4 What is My Drawing Unit?
1.5 Create a New AutoCAD Drawing
1.6 Open an Existing AutoCAD Drawing
1.6.1 File Tab
1.7 Closing Drawing Files
1.8 Undo and Redo Commands
1.8.1 Undo Command
1.8.2 Redo Command
Practice 1-1 AutoCad Basics
Chapter Review
Chapter Review Answers
Chapter 2 Precise Drafting AutoCAD 2024
2.1 Drafting Priorities
2.2 Drawing Lines Using Line Command
2.3 What is Dynamic Input in AutoCAD?
2.3.1 Example for Showing Prompts
2.3.2 Example for Specifying Lengths and Angles
Practice 2-1 Drawing Lines Using Dynamic Input
2.4 Exact Angles (Ortho vs. Polar Tracking)
2.4.1 Increment Angle
2.4.2 Additional Angles
2.4.3 Polar Angle Measurement
Practice 2-2 Exact Angles
2.5 Precise Drafting Using Object SNAP
2.5.1 Activating Running OSNAPs
2.5.2 OSNAP Override
Practice 2-3 Object Snap (OSNAP)
2.6 Drawing Circles Using Circle Command
2.7 Drawing Circular Arcs Using Arc Command
2.8 Object Snaps Related to Circles and Arcs
2.9 Using Object SNAP Tracking with OSNAP
Practice 2-4a Drawing Using OSNAP and OTRACK
Practice 2-4b Drawing Using OSNAP and OTRACK
2.10 Drawing Lines and Arcs Using Polyline Command
2.11 Converting Polylines to Lines and Arcs, and Vice-Versa
2.11.1 Converting Polylines to Lines and Arcs
2.11.2 Joining Lines and Arcs to Form a Polyline
Practice 2-5 Drawing Polylines and Converting
2.12 Using Snap and Grid to Specify Points Accurately.
2.13 Using Polar Snap
Practice 2-6 SNAP and Grid
Practice 2-7 Small Project
Chapter Review
Chapter Review Answers
Chapter 3 Modifying Commands Part I
3.1 How to Select Objects in AutoCAD
3.1.1 Window Mode (W)
3.1.2 Crossing Mode (C)
3.1.3 Window Polygon Mode (WP)
3.1.4 Crossing Polygon Mode (CP)
3.1.5 Lasso Selection
3.1.6 Fence Mode (F)
3.1.7 Last (L), Previous (P), and All Modes
3.1.8 Other Methods to Select Objects
3.2 Selection Cycling
3.3 Erase Command
Practice 3-1 Selecting Objects and Erase Command
3.4 Move Command
3.4.1 Nudge Functionality
Practice 3-2 Moving Objects
3.5 Copy Command
Practice 3-3 Copying Objects
3.6 Rotate Command
3.6.1 Reference Option
Practice 3-4 Rotating Objects
3.7 Scale Command
3.7.1 Reference Option
Practice 3-5 Scaling Objects
3.8 Mirror Command
Practice 3-6 Mirroring Objects
3.9 Stretch Command
Practice 3-7 Stretching Objects
Practice 3-8 Stretching Objects
3.10 Lengthening Objects
3.11 Joining Objects
Practice 3-9 Lengthening and Joining Objects
3.12 Using Grips to Edit Objects
3.13 Grips and Dynamic Input
3.14 Grips and Perpendicular and Tangent OSNAPs
Practice 3-10 Using Grips to Edit Objects
Chapter Review
Chapter Review Answers
Chapter 4 Modifying Commands Part II
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Offsetting Objects
4.2.1 Offsetting Using the Offset Distance Option
4.2.2 Offsetting Using the Through Option
4.2.3 Using the Multiple Option
Practice 4-1 Offsetting Objects
Practice 4-2 Offsetting Objects
4.3 Filleting Objects
Practice 4-3 Filleting Objects
4.4 Chamfering Objects
4.4.1 Chamfering Using the Distance Option
4.4.2 Chamfering Using Distance and Angle
Practice 4-4 Chamfering Objects
4.5 Trimming Objects
Practice 4-5 Trimming Objects.
4.6 Extending Objects
Practice 4-6 Extending Objects
4.7 Arraying Objecs - Rectangular Array
4.7.1 The First Step
4.7.2 Using the Array Creation Context Tab
4.7.3 Editing a Rectangular Array Using Grips
4.7.4 Editing a Rectangular Array Using the Context Tab
4.7.5 Editing a Rectangular Array Using Quick Properties
Practice 4-7 Arraying Objects Using Rectangular Array
4.8 Arraying Objects - Path Array
Practice 4-8 Arraying Objects Using Path
4.9 Arraying Objects - Polar Array
Practice 4-9 Arraying Objects Using Polar Array
4.10 Break Command
Practice 4-10 Breaking Objects
Chapter Review
Chapter Review Answers
Chapter 5 Layers and Inquiry Commands
5.1 Layers Concept in AutoCAD
5.2 Creating ans Setting Layer Properties
5.2.1 How to Create a New Layer
5.2.2 How to Set a Color for a Layer
5.2.3 How to Set the Linetype for Layers
5.2.4 How to Set a Lineweight for Layers
5.2.5 How to Set the Current Layer
Practice 5-1 Creating and Setting Layer Properties
5.3 Layer Controls
5.3.1 Controlling Layer Visibility, Locking, and Plotting
5.3.2 Deleting and Renaming Layers
5.3.3 How to Make an Object's Layer the Current Layer
5.3.4 How to Undo Only Layer Actions
5.3.5 Moving Objects from One Layer to Another
5.4 While You Are at the Layer Properties Manager
Practice 5-2 Layer Controls
5.5 Changing an Object's Layer, Quick Properties, and Properties
5.5.1 Reading Instantaneous Information About an Object
5.5.2 How to Move an Object from a Layer to Another Layer
5.5.3 What is Quick Properties?
5.5.4 What is Properties?
Practice 5-3 Changing Object's Layer, Quick Properties, and Properties
5.6 Inquiry Commands - Introduction
5.7 Measuring Distance
5.8 Inquiring Radius
5.9 Measuring Angle
5.10 Measuring Area.
5.10. 1 How to Calculate Simple Area
5.10.2 How to Claculate Complex Area
5.11 Quick Measure
Practice 5-4 Inquiry Commands
Practice 5-5 Inquiry Commands
Chapter Review
Chapter Review Answers
Chapter 6 Blocks and Hatch
6.1 Why Do We Need Blocks?
6.2 How to Create a Block
6.3 How to Use (Insert) Blocks
6.3.1 Block Insertion Point OSNAP
6.3.2 Block Count
6.3.3 Block Replace
Practice 6-1A Creating and Inserting Blocks
Practice 6-1B Auto-placement and Replace
6.4 Exploding Blocks and Converting Them to Files
6.4.1 Exploding Blocks
6.4.2 Converting Blocks to Files
Practice 6-2 Exploding, Converting
6.5 Hatching in AutoCAD
6.6 Hatch Command: First Step
6.7 Controlling Hatch Properties
Practice 6-3 Inputting Hatch and Controlling Hatch Properties
6.8 Specifying Hatch Origin
6.9 Controlling Hatch Options
6.9.1 How to Create Associative Hatching
6.9.2 How to Make Your Hatch Annotative
6.9.3 Using Match Properties to Create
6.9.4 Hatching an Open Area
6.9.5 Creating Separate Hatches in the Same Command
6.9.6 Island Detection
6.9.7 Set Hatch Draw Order
Practice 6-4 Hatch Origin and Options
6.10 Hatch Boundary
6.11 Editing Hatch
Practice 6-5 Hatch Boundary and Hatch Editing
Chapter Review
Chapter Review Answers
Chapter 7 Writing Test
7.1 Writing Text Using Single Line Text
Practice 7-1 Creating Text Style and Single Line Text
7.2 Writing Text Using Multiline Text
7.2.1 Style Panel
7.2.2 Formatting Panel
7.2.3 Paragraph Panel
7.2.4 Insert Panel
7.2.5 Spell Check Panel
7.2.6 Tools Panel
7.2.7 Options Panel
7.2.8 Close Panel
7.2.9 Text Editor
Practice 7-2 Writing Using Multiline Text
7.3 Text Editing
7.3.1 Double-Click Text
7.3.2 Quick Properties and Properties
7.3.3 Editing Using Grips.
7.4 Spelling Check and Find and Replace
Practice 7-3 Editing Text
Chapter Review
Chapter Review Answers
Chapter 8 Dimensions
8.1 What is Dimensioning in AutoCAD?
8.2 Dimension Types
8.3 How to Insert a Linear Dimension
8.4 How to Insert an Aligned Dimension
8.5 How to Insert an Angular Dimension
Practice 8-1 Inserting Linear, Aligned, and Angular Dimensions
8.6 How to Insert an Arc-Length Dimension
8.7 How to Insert a Radius Dimension
8.8 How to Insert a Diameter Dimension
Practice 8-2 Inserting Arc Length, Radius, and Diameter Dimension
8.9 How to Insert a Jogged Dimension
8.10 How to Insert an Ordinate Dimension
Practice 8-3 Inserting Dimensions
8.11 Inserting a Series of Dimensions Using the Continue Command
8.12 Inserting a Series of Dimensions Using the Baseline Command
Practice 8-4 Continue Command
Practice 8-5 Baseline Command
8.13 Using the Quick Dimension Command
8.14 Using the Dimension Command
8.15 Dimension Special Layer
8.16 Editing a Dimension Block Using Grips
8.17 Editing a Dimension Block Using the Right-Click Menu
8.18 Editing a Dimension Block Using Quick Properties and Properties
Practice 8-6 Quick Dimension and Editing
Chapter Review
Chapter Review Answers
Chapter 9 Plotting
9.1 What is Model Space and What is Paper Space?
9.2 Introduction to Layouts
9.3 Steps to Create a New Layout from Scratch
9.4 Steps to Create a New Layout Using a Template
9.5 Creating Layouts Using Copying
Practice 9-1 Creating New Layouts
9.6 Creating Viewports
9.6.1 Adding Single Rectangular Viewports
9.6.2 Adding Multiple Rectangular Viewports
9.6.3 Adding Polygonal Viewports
9.6.4 Creating Viewports by Converting Existing Objects
9.6.5 Creating Viewports by Clipping Existing Viewports.
9.6.6 Dealing with Viewports after Creation.
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
About the Book
Chapter 1 AutoCAD 2024 Basics
1.1 Starting AutoCAD
1.2 AutoCAD 2024 Interface
1.2.1 Application Menu
1.2.2 Quick Access Toolbar
1.2.3 Ribbons
1.2.4 InfoCenter
1.2.5 Command Window
1.2.6 Graphical Area
1.2.7 Status Bar
1.2.8 Start Tab
1.3 AutoCAD Defaults
1.4 What is My Drawing Unit?
1.5 Create a New AutoCAD Drawing
1.6 Open an Existing AutoCAD Drawing
1.6.1 File Tab
1.7 Closing Drawing Files
1.8 Undo and Redo Commands
1.8.1 Undo Command
1.8.2 Redo Command
Practice 1-1 AutoCad Basics
Chapter Review
Chapter Review Answers
Chapter 2 Precise Drafting AutoCAD 2024
2.1 Drafting Priorities
2.2 Drawing Lines Using Line Command
2.3 What is Dynamic Input in AutoCAD?
2.3.1 Example for Showing Prompts
2.3.2 Example for Specifying Lengths and Angles
Practice 2-1 Drawing Lines Using Dynamic Input
2.4 Exact Angles (Ortho vs. Polar Tracking)
2.4.1 Increment Angle
2.4.2 Additional Angles
2.4.3 Polar Angle Measurement
Practice 2-2 Exact Angles
2.5 Precise Drafting Using Object SNAP
2.5.1 Activating Running OSNAPs
2.5.2 OSNAP Override
Practice 2-3 Object Snap (OSNAP)
2.6 Drawing Circles Using Circle Command
2.7 Drawing Circular Arcs Using Arc Command
2.8 Object Snaps Related to Circles and Arcs
2.9 Using Object SNAP Tracking with OSNAP
Practice 2-4a Drawing Using OSNAP and OTRACK
Practice 2-4b Drawing Using OSNAP and OTRACK
2.10 Drawing Lines and Arcs Using Polyline Command
2.11 Converting Polylines to Lines and Arcs, and Vice-Versa
2.11.1 Converting Polylines to Lines and Arcs
2.11.2 Joining Lines and Arcs to Form a Polyline
Practice 2-5 Drawing Polylines and Converting
2.12 Using Snap and Grid to Specify Points Accurately.
2.13 Using Polar Snap
Practice 2-6 SNAP and Grid
Practice 2-7 Small Project
Chapter Review
Chapter Review Answers
Chapter 3 Modifying Commands Part I
3.1 How to Select Objects in AutoCAD
3.1.1 Window Mode (W)
3.1.2 Crossing Mode (C)
3.1.3 Window Polygon Mode (WP)
3.1.4 Crossing Polygon Mode (CP)
3.1.5 Lasso Selection
3.1.6 Fence Mode (F)
3.1.7 Last (L), Previous (P), and All Modes
3.1.8 Other Methods to Select Objects
3.2 Selection Cycling
3.3 Erase Command
Practice 3-1 Selecting Objects and Erase Command
3.4 Move Command
3.4.1 Nudge Functionality
Practice 3-2 Moving Objects
3.5 Copy Command
Practice 3-3 Copying Objects
3.6 Rotate Command
3.6.1 Reference Option
Practice 3-4 Rotating Objects
3.7 Scale Command
3.7.1 Reference Option
Practice 3-5 Scaling Objects
3.8 Mirror Command
Practice 3-6 Mirroring Objects
3.9 Stretch Command
Practice 3-7 Stretching Objects
Practice 3-8 Stretching Objects
3.10 Lengthening Objects
3.11 Joining Objects
Practice 3-9 Lengthening and Joining Objects
3.12 Using Grips to Edit Objects
3.13 Grips and Dynamic Input
3.14 Grips and Perpendicular and Tangent OSNAPs
Practice 3-10 Using Grips to Edit Objects
Chapter Review
Chapter Review Answers
Chapter 4 Modifying Commands Part II
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Offsetting Objects
4.2.1 Offsetting Using the Offset Distance Option
4.2.2 Offsetting Using the Through Option
4.2.3 Using the Multiple Option
Practice 4-1 Offsetting Objects
Practice 4-2 Offsetting Objects
4.3 Filleting Objects
Practice 4-3 Filleting Objects
4.4 Chamfering Objects
4.4.1 Chamfering Using the Distance Option
4.4.2 Chamfering Using Distance and Angle
Practice 4-4 Chamfering Objects
4.5 Trimming Objects
Practice 4-5 Trimming Objects.
4.6 Extending Objects
Practice 4-6 Extending Objects
4.7 Arraying Objecs - Rectangular Array
4.7.1 The First Step
4.7.2 Using the Array Creation Context Tab
4.7.3 Editing a Rectangular Array Using Grips
4.7.4 Editing a Rectangular Array Using the Context Tab
4.7.5 Editing a Rectangular Array Using Quick Properties
Practice 4-7 Arraying Objects Using Rectangular Array
4.8 Arraying Objects - Path Array
Practice 4-8 Arraying Objects Using Path
4.9 Arraying Objects - Polar Array
Practice 4-9 Arraying Objects Using Polar Array
4.10 Break Command
Practice 4-10 Breaking Objects
Chapter Review
Chapter Review Answers
Chapter 5 Layers and Inquiry Commands
5.1 Layers Concept in AutoCAD
5.2 Creating ans Setting Layer Properties
5.2.1 How to Create a New Layer
5.2.2 How to Set a Color for a Layer
5.2.3 How to Set the Linetype for Layers
5.2.4 How to Set a Lineweight for Layers
5.2.5 How to Set the Current Layer
Practice 5-1 Creating and Setting Layer Properties
5.3 Layer Controls
5.3.1 Controlling Layer Visibility, Locking, and Plotting
5.3.2 Deleting and Renaming Layers
5.3.3 How to Make an Object's Layer the Current Layer
5.3.4 How to Undo Only Layer Actions
5.3.5 Moving Objects from One Layer to Another
5.4 While You Are at the Layer Properties Manager
Practice 5-2 Layer Controls
5.5 Changing an Object's Layer, Quick Properties, and Properties
5.5.1 Reading Instantaneous Information About an Object
5.5.2 How to Move an Object from a Layer to Another Layer
5.5.3 What is Quick Properties?
5.5.4 What is Properties?
Practice 5-3 Changing Object's Layer, Quick Properties, and Properties
5.6 Inquiry Commands - Introduction
5.7 Measuring Distance
5.8 Inquiring Radius
5.9 Measuring Angle
5.10 Measuring Area.
5.10. 1 How to Calculate Simple Area
5.10.2 How to Claculate Complex Area
5.11 Quick Measure
Practice 5-4 Inquiry Commands
Practice 5-5 Inquiry Commands
Chapter Review
Chapter Review Answers
Chapter 6 Blocks and Hatch
6.1 Why Do We Need Blocks?
6.2 How to Create a Block
6.3 How to Use (Insert) Blocks
6.3.1 Block Insertion Point OSNAP
6.3.2 Block Count
6.3.3 Block Replace
Practice 6-1A Creating and Inserting Blocks
Practice 6-1B Auto-placement and Replace
6.4 Exploding Blocks and Converting Them to Files
6.4.1 Exploding Blocks
6.4.2 Converting Blocks to Files
Practice 6-2 Exploding, Converting
6.5 Hatching in AutoCAD
6.6 Hatch Command: First Step
6.7 Controlling Hatch Properties
Practice 6-3 Inputting Hatch and Controlling Hatch Properties
6.8 Specifying Hatch Origin
6.9 Controlling Hatch Options
6.9.1 How to Create Associative Hatching
6.9.2 How to Make Your Hatch Annotative
6.9.3 Using Match Properties to Create
6.9.4 Hatching an Open Area
6.9.5 Creating Separate Hatches in the Same Command
6.9.6 Island Detection
6.9.7 Set Hatch Draw Order
Practice 6-4 Hatch Origin and Options
6.10 Hatch Boundary
6.11 Editing Hatch
Practice 6-5 Hatch Boundary and Hatch Editing
Chapter Review
Chapter Review Answers
Chapter 7 Writing Test
7.1 Writing Text Using Single Line Text
Practice 7-1 Creating Text Style and Single Line Text
7.2 Writing Text Using Multiline Text
7.2.1 Style Panel
7.2.2 Formatting Panel
7.2.3 Paragraph Panel
7.2.4 Insert Panel
7.2.5 Spell Check Panel
7.2.6 Tools Panel
7.2.7 Options Panel
7.2.8 Close Panel
7.2.9 Text Editor
Practice 7-2 Writing Using Multiline Text
7.3 Text Editing
7.3.1 Double-Click Text
7.3.2 Quick Properties and Properties
7.3.3 Editing Using Grips.
7.4 Spelling Check and Find and Replace
Practice 7-3 Editing Text
Chapter Review
Chapter Review Answers
Chapter 8 Dimensions
8.1 What is Dimensioning in AutoCAD?
8.2 Dimension Types
8.3 How to Insert a Linear Dimension
8.4 How to Insert an Aligned Dimension
8.5 How to Insert an Angular Dimension
Practice 8-1 Inserting Linear, Aligned, and Angular Dimensions
8.6 How to Insert an Arc-Length Dimension
8.7 How to Insert a Radius Dimension
8.8 How to Insert a Diameter Dimension
Practice 8-2 Inserting Arc Length, Radius, and Diameter Dimension
8.9 How to Insert a Jogged Dimension
8.10 How to Insert an Ordinate Dimension
Practice 8-3 Inserting Dimensions
8.11 Inserting a Series of Dimensions Using the Continue Command
8.12 Inserting a Series of Dimensions Using the Baseline Command
Practice 8-4 Continue Command
Practice 8-5 Baseline Command
8.13 Using the Quick Dimension Command
8.14 Using the Dimension Command
8.15 Dimension Special Layer
8.16 Editing a Dimension Block Using Grips
8.17 Editing a Dimension Block Using the Right-Click Menu
8.18 Editing a Dimension Block Using Quick Properties and Properties
Practice 8-6 Quick Dimension and Editing
Chapter Review
Chapter Review Answers
Chapter 9 Plotting
9.1 What is Model Space and What is Paper Space?
9.2 Introduction to Layouts
9.3 Steps to Create a New Layout from Scratch
9.4 Steps to Create a New Layout Using a Template
9.5 Creating Layouts Using Copying
Practice 9-1 Creating New Layouts
9.6 Creating Viewports
9.6.1 Adding Single Rectangular Viewports
9.6.2 Adding Multiple Rectangular Viewports
9.6.3 Adding Polygonal Viewports
9.6.4 Creating Viewports by Converting Existing Objects
9.6.5 Creating Viewports by Clipping Existing Viewports.
9.6.6 Dealing with Viewports after Creation.