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AutoCAD 2013 for dummies [electronic resource] / by Bill Fane, Daivd Byrnes.

By: Fane, Bill.
Contributor(s): Byrnes, David, 1947-.
Series: --For dummies: Publisher: Hoboken : John Wiley, 2012Description: 1 online resource : ill., phot.ISBN: 9781118333525 (ebk.); 1118333527 (ebk.); 9781118392171 (ebk.); 1118392175 (ebk.).Other title: AutoCAD two thousand and thriteen for dummies.Subject(s): AutoCAD -- Amateurs' manuals | Electronic booksAdditional physical formats: Print version:: AutoCAD 2013 For DummiesDDC classification: 620/.00420285536 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
AutoCAD 2013 For Dummies; About the Authors; Dedication; Authors' Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Introduction; What's Not (And What Is) in This Book; Who Do We Think You Are?; How This Book Is Organized; Icons Used in This Book; A Few Conventions -- Just in Case; Where to Go from Here; Part I: AutoCAD 101; Chapter 1: Introducing AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT; Why AutoCAD?; The Importance of Being DWG; Seeing the LT; Checking System Requirements; Suddenly, It's 2013!; Chapter 2: Le Tour de AutoCAD 2013; AutoCAD Does Windows (And Office); And They're Off: AutoCAD's Opening Screens.
Getting with the ProgramFun with F1; Chapter 3: A Lap around the CAD Track; A Simple Setup; Drawing a (Base) Plate; Getting a Closer Look with Zoom and Pan; Modifying to Make It Merrier; Following the Plot; Chapter 4: Setup for Success; A Setup Roadmap; A Template for Success; Making the Most of Model Space; Making Templates Your Own; Chapter 5: Planning for Paper; Setting Up a Layout in Paper Space; About Paper Space Layouts and Plotting; Part II: Let There Be Lines; Chapter 6: Manage Your Properties; Managing Your Properties; Using Named Objects.
Chapter 7: Preciseliness Is Next to CADlinessControlling Your Precision; Other Practical Precision Procedures; Chapter 8: Along the Straight and Narrow; Introducing the AutoCAD Drawing Commands; The Straight and Narrow: Lines, Polylines, and Polygons; Chapter 9: Dangerous Curves Ahead; (Throwing) Curves; Scoring Points; Chapter 10: Get a Grip on Object Selection; Commanding and Selecting; Grab It; Perfecting Selecting; AutoCAD Groupies; Object Selection: Now You See It . . .; Get a Grip; Chapter 11: Edit for Credit; Your AutoCAD Toolkit; The Big Three: Move, Copy, and Stretch.
More ManipulationsSlicing, Dicing, and Splicing; When Editing Goes Bad; Chapter 12: A Zoom with a View; Zoom and Pan with Glass and Hand; A View by Any Other Name . . .; Looking Around in Layout Land; Degenerating and Regenerating; Part III: If Drawings Could Talk; Chapter 13: Text with Character; Getting Ready to Write; Using the Same Old Line; Turning On Your Annotative Objects; Saying More in Multiline Text; Gather Round the Tables; Take Me to Your Leader; Chapter 14: Entering New Dimensions; How Do You Measure Up?; A Field Guide to Dimensions; The Latest Styles in Dimensioning.
Size MattersEditing Dimensions; Chapter 15: Down the Hatch!; Batten Down the Hatches!; Don't Count Your Hatches. . .; Size Matters!; Pushing the Boundary (Of) Hatch; Editing Hatch Objects; Chapter 16: The Plot Thickens; You Say Printing, We Say Plotting; The Plot Quickens; Plotting the Layout of the Land; Plotting Lineweights and Colors; It's a (Page) Setup!; Continuing the Plot Dialog; The Plot Sickens; Part IV: Advancing with AutoCAD; Chapter 17: The ABCs of Blocks; Rocking with Blocks; Creating Block Definitions; Inserting Blocks; Attributes: Fill-in-the-Blank Blocks; Exploding Blocks.
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Includes index.

AutoCAD 2013 For Dummies; About the Authors; Dedication; Authors' Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Introduction; What's Not (And What Is) in This Book; Who Do We Think You Are?; How This Book Is Organized; Icons Used in This Book; A Few Conventions -- Just in Case; Where to Go from Here; Part I: AutoCAD 101; Chapter 1: Introducing AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT; Why AutoCAD?; The Importance of Being DWG; Seeing the LT; Checking System Requirements; Suddenly, It's 2013!; Chapter 2: Le Tour de AutoCAD 2013; AutoCAD Does Windows (And Office); And They're Off: AutoCAD's Opening Screens.

Getting with the ProgramFun with F1; Chapter 3: A Lap around the CAD Track; A Simple Setup; Drawing a (Base) Plate; Getting a Closer Look with Zoom and Pan; Modifying to Make It Merrier; Following the Plot; Chapter 4: Setup for Success; A Setup Roadmap; A Template for Success; Making the Most of Model Space; Making Templates Your Own; Chapter 5: Planning for Paper; Setting Up a Layout in Paper Space; About Paper Space Layouts and Plotting; Part II: Let There Be Lines; Chapter 6: Manage Your Properties; Managing Your Properties; Using Named Objects.

Chapter 7: Preciseliness Is Next to CADlinessControlling Your Precision; Other Practical Precision Procedures; Chapter 8: Along the Straight and Narrow; Introducing the AutoCAD Drawing Commands; The Straight and Narrow: Lines, Polylines, and Polygons; Chapter 9: Dangerous Curves Ahead; (Throwing) Curves; Scoring Points; Chapter 10: Get a Grip on Object Selection; Commanding and Selecting; Grab It; Perfecting Selecting; AutoCAD Groupies; Object Selection: Now You See It . . .; Get a Grip; Chapter 11: Edit for Credit; Your AutoCAD Toolkit; The Big Three: Move, Copy, and Stretch.

More ManipulationsSlicing, Dicing, and Splicing; When Editing Goes Bad; Chapter 12: A Zoom with a View; Zoom and Pan with Glass and Hand; A View by Any Other Name . . .; Looking Around in Layout Land; Degenerating and Regenerating; Part III: If Drawings Could Talk; Chapter 13: Text with Character; Getting Ready to Write; Using the Same Old Line; Turning On Your Annotative Objects; Saying More in Multiline Text; Gather Round the Tables; Take Me to Your Leader; Chapter 14: Entering New Dimensions; How Do You Measure Up?; A Field Guide to Dimensions; The Latest Styles in Dimensioning.

Size MattersEditing Dimensions; Chapter 15: Down the Hatch!; Batten Down the Hatches!; Don't Count Your Hatches. . .; Size Matters!; Pushing the Boundary (Of) Hatch; Editing Hatch Objects; Chapter 16: The Plot Thickens; You Say Printing, We Say Plotting; The Plot Quickens; Plotting the Layout of the Land; Plotting Lineweights and Colors; It's a (Page) Setup!; Continuing the Plot Dialog; The Plot Sickens; Part IV: Advancing with AutoCAD; Chapter 17: The ABCs of Blocks; Rocking with Blocks; Creating Block Definitions; Inserting Blocks; Attributes: Fill-in-the-Blank Blocks; Exploding Blocks.

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