Description
Book SynopsisThis best-selling Exercise Workbook is the perfect resource for learning and honing essential AutoCAD skills, whether you are a complete beginner, seeking to improve your 2D drawing skills, or simply interested in learning about the very latest updates.
AutoCAD experts Shrock and Heather share their knowledge of the best use of this versatile program with students and instructors, including plenty of inside tips and numerous exercises to help users get comfortable and see real progress. Readers can download the provided templates used for drawings in the book from Industrial Press’s print or eBook website product pages.
The new AutoCAD 2023 software builds on the features of the previous releases. Design changes include a reinvented icon on the main menus and revisions of the
Model and
Layout Tabs. A new button in the
Count Palette, facilitating creation of a table tallying the elements in your drawing file, along with changes to the
Table of Contents
* Starting AutoCAD * AutoCAD Application Window * ToolTip Help * Creating a Template * Selecting a Command * Drawing Lines * Erase * Undo and Redo * Starting a New Drawing * Opening Multiple Files * Using Floating File Tabs * Automatic Save * Back Up Files and Recover * Circle * Rectangle * Layers * Transparency * Object Snap * Zoom * Polygon * Ellipse * Point * Trim * Extend * Move * Drag * Explode * Copy * Mirror * Fillet * Single & Multiline Text * Tabs * Spell Check * Columns * Paragraph & Line Spacing * Editing * Coordinate Input * Direct Distance Entry (DDE) * Measure Tools * Creating a Border * Moving the Origin * Displaying the UCS Icon * Dynamic Input * Using Polar Tracking & DDE * Polar Snap * Offset * Properties Palette * Array * Scale * Stretch * Rotate * Hatch Types * Linear, Continue, & Baseline Dimensioning * Overriding a Dimension Style * Dimension Breaks * Adjusting the Distance Between Dimensions * Dimensioning Diameters & Radii * Angular Dimensioning * Center Mark—Automatic & Manual * Centerline * Flip Arrow * Creating a Multileader Style * Special Text Characters * Creating New Text Styles * Match Properties * Wipeout * Polylines * Model & Layout Options * Command Aliases * Blocks * Annotative Scales * … and much more!
