AutoCAD for Engineers
2nd Edition
Published on 1. March 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
480 pages
978-0-8273-4685-7 (ISBN)
Description
This CAD text covers fundamental knowledge and skills and subsequently builds in concepts and difficulty. It features the latest coverage on solids modelling, customizing AutoCAD, AutoLISP, digitizing and AutoCAD for Windows. Examples and problems highlight CAD applications in a variety of disciplines, including structural steel, architecture, machine drawing and mechanical drafting. Students start with simple drawings and progress to more advanced principles, learning the broad scope of fundamental concepts and commands.
More details
Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Clifton Park
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations, tables
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 190 mm
Weight
1880 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8273-4685-7 (9780827346857)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Computer history. Computer graphics. CAD principles. Operating system. Files. Overview. Main menu. Drawing editor. Input methods. Prototype drawings. Co-ordinate systems. Drawing environments. Tools. Layer structure. Display and viewing commands. Dimensioning. Plotting. Fundamentals I. Drawing setup. Draw command. Utility command. Tools. Layers. Demodes. Display commands. Object selection. Edit commands. Text commands. Fundamentals II. Trim. Inquiry commands. Wild card characters. Running Osnap. Fundamentals III. Undo and redo commands. Layers. Blocks and attributes. Unit block. Wblock. Base command. Attributes. Reference files. Xref command. Xbind command. Drawing environments. Model and paper space. Tilemode variable. Vports. Redrawall and Regenall. Mview. Zoom. Vplayer. Utility commands. Display controls. Drawing aids. Shell and Sh command. Special features. Mslide. Vslide. Script. Delay and Resume. Rscript. Isometric drawing. Snap. Isoplane. Drawing in 3D. The user co-ordinate system. Line and 3D Poly commands. Elev command. Pedit. 3D Face command. 3D Polygon Meshes. AME. Plotting. Customizing AutoCAD. Macros. Custom menus. Customizing hatch patterns. Customizing linetypes. Shapes and fonts. Digitizing and tablet configuration and translation. AutoLISP and ADS. Introduction to AutoCAD Windows.