Discovering AutoCAD 2007

Mark Dix began working with AutoCAD in 1985 as a programmer for CAD Support Associates, Inc. He helped design a system for creating estimates and bills of material directly from AutoCAD drawings for use in the automated conveyor industry. This system became the forerunner of systems still widely in use today. In 1986 he began collaborating with Paul Riley to create AutoCAD training materials, combining Riley’s background in industrial design and training with Dix’s background in writing, curriculum development, and programming. Mr. Dix received the M.A.T in teaching from Cornell University and the M.S. degree in education from the University of Massachusetts. He is currently the Director of Dearborn Academy High School in Arlington, Massachusetts.     Paul Riley is an author, instructor, and designer specializing in graphics and design for multimedia. He is a founding partner of CAD Support Associates, a contract service and professional training organization for computer-aided design. His 15 years of business experience and 20 years of teaching experience are supported by degrees in education and computer science. Paul has taught AutoCAD at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and is presently teaching AutoCAD at Mt. Ida College in Newton, Massachusetts. He has developed a program, Computer-aided Design for Professionals that is highly regarded by corporate clients and has been an ongoing success since 1982. With Mark Dix he has created text books for every release of AutoCAD since version 2.5 in 1987.

PART I            Basic Two-Dimensional Entities

Chapter 1            Lines

Commands:            ERASE, LINE, NEW, OPEN, REDO, SAVE, SAVEAS, U, UCSICON 

 

Chapter 2            Circles and Drawing Aids

Commands:      CIRCLE, DDRMODES, DIST, ERASE, GRID, HELP, OOPS, PLOT, RECTANGLE, SNAP, UNITS

 

Chapter 3            Layers, Colors, and Linetypes

Commands:      CHAMFER, FILLET, LAYER, LTSCALE, PAN, PLOT, REGEN, ZOOM

 

Chapter 4            Template Drawings

Commands:            ARRAY (RECTANGULAR), COPY, LIMITS, MOVE

 

Chapter 5            Arcs and Polar Arrays

Commands:            ARC, ARRAY (POLAR), MIRROR, ROTATE

 

Chapter 6            Object Snap

Commands:            BREAK, EXTEND, LENGTHEN, OFFSET, OSNAP, STRETCH, TRIM

 



PART II            Text, Dimensions, and Other Complex Entities

Chapter 7            Text

Commands:      CHANGE, CHPROP, DDCHPROP, DDEDIT, DDEMODES, DDMODIFY, DTEXT, MATCHPROP, MTEXT, SCALE, SPELL, STYLE, TEXT

  

Chapter 8            Dimensions

Commands:      BHATCH, BPOLY, DDIM, DIMALIGNED, DIMANGULAR, DIMBASELINE, DIMCONTINUE, DIMLINEAR, DIMOVERRIDE, DIMSTYLE, DIMEDIT, PROPERTIES, QDIM, QLEADER

 

Chapter 9            Polylines

Commands:      DONUT, FILL, MLEDIT, MLINE, MSTYLE, PEDIT, PLINE, POINT, POLYGON, REVCLOUD, SKETCH, SOLID, SPLINE

 

Chapter 10            Blocks, Attributes, and External References 

Commands:      ADCENTER, ATTDEF, ATTDISP, ATTEDIT, ATTTEXT, BLOCK, COPYCLIP, EXPLODE, GROUP, INSERT, WBLOCK, XATTACK, XCLIP, XOPEN, EREF

  

PART III            Isometric Drawing and Three-Dimensional Modeling 

Chapter 11            Isometric Drawing

Commands:            ELLIPSE, SNAP (ISOMETRIC), VIEW

 

Chapter 12            Wireframe Models

Commands:            RULESURF, UCS, UCSICON, VPOINT

 

Chapter 13            Surface Models 

Commands:      3DFACE, 3DMESH, 3DORBIT, EDGESURF, HIDE, REVSURF, RULESURF, TABSURF, VPORTS

 

Chapter 14            Solid Models 

Commands:      BOX, CYLINDER, EXTRUDE, INTERSECT, LIGHT, MATLIB, RENDER, REVOLVE, RMAT, SCENE, SECTION, SHADE, SLICE, SPHERE, SOLIDEDIT, SUBTRACT, UNION, WEDGE, 3DORBIT

Appendixes Appendix A            Drawing Projects

Appendix B            Creating Customized Toolbars

Appendix C            Menus and Macros

Appendix D            Data Exchange Formats

Appendix E            Additional Tools for Collaboration

 

Index