AutoCAD Workbook for Architects and Engineers
1. Auflage August 2008
296 Seiten, Softcover
Praktikerbuch
Kurzbeschreibung
A practical, step-by-step guide for architecture and engineering students using AutoCAD. It offers the basics on how to produce a variety of drawings and drawing types with a wide variety of commands and sequences.
Students need a book about drawing, not software and this step-by-step guide offers the basics on how to produce a range of drawings types with a wide variety of AutoCAD commands and sequences.
This focus of this book is producing 2D drawings for engineering and architectural designs. It is not about every AutoCAD command and the many options, variables and command sequences that go into that command. There are a great many very good reference books on the market that discuss these aspects of the AutoCAD program, and all of that information is found within the Help files of the program.
Each chapter - or teaching module - contains a brief introduction to the commands and many exercises. Many students are not familiar with basic drawing types: working drawings as opposed to presentation drawings, orthographic projection as opposed to pictorial views, sections and reverse sections, etc. This book will show how to produce all these using 'walk-throughs' on how to approach different situations. Only a few commands are covered in each chapter, with between 4 and 20 exercises per chapter illustrating how the commands can be employed. This book concentrates on useable exercises that provide completed drawings - and explanations on the software is secondary.
Generating 3D Models.
Viewpoints or VPORTS.
Orientating Views Within VPORTS.
3D Icons.
Entering X, Y and Z Coordinates.
Exercise..
2. User Coordinate System.
The UCS Command.
UCS World.
Saving and Restoring UCS.
The UCS Icon.
The UCS and Views.
Exercise..
3. 3DFACE, Hide, and Shade with 3D Autotracking.
Generating 3D Images.
3DFACE.
The EDGE Command.
The HIDE Command.
The SHADE Command.
Rendering.
Auto Tracking.
Exercises..
4. THICKNESS, ELEVation, and 3DShapes.
The ELEVation Command.
The THICKNESS Command.
Changing Existing ELEVation and THICKNESS.
VPOINT, VPORTS and VIEW.
3D SURFACES.
Exercises..
5. Surfacing.
Sufaces in a CAD Environment.
Surface Display.
3D Polyline Meshes.
RULESURF.
Surface of Revolution or REVSURF.
Tabulated Surfaces or TABSURF.
Edge Surfaces or EDGESURF.
Exercises..
6. Three-Dimensional Solids.
What Are Solids?.
Creating Solid Objects.
Modifying Solid Objects.
Filleting and Chamfering Solids.
Exercises..
7. Revolving, Extruding and Mass Properties of 3D Solids.
The REVOLVE Command.
The EXTRUDE Command.
The SECTION Command.
The SLICE Command.
Mass Properties.
The MASSPORP Command.
Exercises..
8. Editing Solids and 3D Objects.
The 3DARRAY Command.
The MIRROR3D Command.
The ROTATE3D Command.
MOVE and COPY in 3D.
Exercises..
9. Preparing 3D Objects for Drawings.
AutoCAD's Model Space.
Using DVIEW Options.
3D Orbit.
3D Dimensioning.
Exercises..
10. Paper Space for 2 Dimensional Drawings.
Paper Space.
Accessing Paper Sapce.
Scaling Views Within a Drawing.
LAYERs within Viewports.
The VPLAYER Command.
Dimensioning in Paper Space.
AutoCAD's Template Drawings.
Exercises..
11. Paper Space, Model Space and 3D Drawings.
Model Space and Paper Space.
Paper Space.
Tilemode.
MVIEW.
Entering the Title Block.
Scaling Views Within a Drawing.
Locking the Zoom Factor Within a Viewport.
Dimensioning with the views.
Exercises..
12. Creating Attributes.
Introduction.
Attributes for Title Blocks and Notations.
Defining the Attributes.
Editing Attribute Definitions.
Displaying Attributes.
Creating Attributes for Data Extraction.
Exercises..
13. Editing and Extracting Attributes.
Editing Attributes Attached to Blocks.
Editing Attributes.
Data Extraction.
Exercises..
14. POINTS, DIVIDE, MEASURE, INQUIRY, and Trouble Shooting.
Point Display or PDMODE Options.
Using DIVIDA and MEASURE.
Inquiry Commands.
Exercises..
15. Advanced Blocking, Dynamic Blocks, and Xrefs.
Advanced Blocking.
Xrefs or External Reference Files.
The XBIND Command.
Dynamic Blocks.
Exercises.