AutoCAD Beginner’s Guide to 2D & 3D Drawings By Kendrol Philips

AutoCAD Beginner’s Guide to 2D & 3D Drawings  By Kendrol Philips

Contents:

C H A P T E R 1 Getting to Know AutoCAD for Windows

C H A P T E R 2 Learning Basic Commands to Get Started

C H A P T E R 3 Setting Up a Drawing

C H A P T E R 4 Developing Drawing Strategies: Part 1

C H A P T E R 5 Developing Drawing Strategies: Part 2

C H A P T E R 6 Using Layers to Organize Your Drawing

C H A P T E R 7 Combining Objects into Blocks

C H A P T E R 8 Controlling Text in a Drawing

C H A P T E R 9 Using Dynamic Blocks and Tables

C H A P T E R 10 Generating Elevations

C H A P T E R 11 Working with Hatches, Gradients, and Tool Pa

C H A P T E R 12 Dimensioning a Drawing

C H A P T E R 13 Managing External References

C H A P T E R 14 Using Layouts to Set Up a Print

C H A P T E R 15 Printing a Drawing

C H A P T E R 16 Creating 3D Geometry

C H A P T E R 17 Rendering and Materials

Preface:

program for the first time presents you with an expansive canvas of tools, settings, and more. Faced with this seemingly endless landscape of options, you are probably wondering where you should start. This chapter faces that question head on and breaks down the many components of the user inter face into manageable segments, introducing you to essential operations, such as opening drawings. Even if you’ve used earlier versions of AutoCAD, you’ll still want to review this chapter to become acquainted with changes that have taken place in recent years.