Trades & Technology

Designed for introductory AutoCAD users, Discovering AutoCAD 2006 offers a hands-on, activity-based approach to the use of AutoCAD as a drafting tool–complete with techniques, tips, shortcuts, and insights that improve efficiency. Topics and tasks are carefully grouped to lead students logically through the AutoCAD command set, with the level of difficulty increasing steadily as skills are acquired through experience and practice. Straightforward explanations focus on what is relevant to actual drawing procedures, and illustrations show exactly what to expect on the computer screen.  The 2006 edition features new material on creating tables and fields, a new appendix on tools for collaboration, and a text specific website containing drawing projects, Internet activities, self-scoring quizzes and more!

Lessons are broken down into tasks–listed at the beginning of each section.

• Introduce readers to the AutoCAD commands using a structured, intuitive approach. 
• Anticipate what information the student will need at each new phase of the learning curve. 

General Procedure boxes–appear as new commands are introduced.

• Provide a simple overview of basic command procedures in a step-by-step format. 

Detailed graphics–appear throughout the text.

• Demonstrate what students should expect to see on their screen and encourage self-paced study. 

Unique icons and typeface–appearwithin the chapter.

• Identify hands-on AutoCAD instructions. 

Drawing problems–appear at the end of the chapter.

• Require students to apply newly learned techniques immediately to realistic drawing situations.
• Include drawing suggestions, timesaving tips, and meaningful explanations of how to use techniques in actual applications. 

Working drawings–accompany drawing problems.

• Appear in a large, clearly dimensioned format on each right-hand page.

Optional internet projects at the end of each chapter

•     allows students to complete projects outside of the classroom structure

 Exercises that introduce new commands and techniques

• this insures that the students are learning the latest commands and shortcuts 

 Ten or more end-of-chapter Review Questions 

• end-of-chapter questions reinforce concepts contained within the chapter 

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

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

AutoCAD - Computer-Aided Drawing  [AUTOCAD 2006]   (CAD / Engineering Graphics / Drafting)

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3D CAD Curriculum
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