AutoCAD for Windows Express

1 Introduction.- What is AutoCAD?.- The aims of the AutoCAD Express.- The Express route through AutoCAD.- Conventions used in the AutoCAD Express.- RETURN or ENTER?.- Presentation of user-AutoCAD dialogue.- Control keys.- Menus.- Other conventions.- The Windows environment.- Program Manager.- Window control.- Window cleaning.- Windows hot-keys.- 2 Starting Autocad.- Preparation.- Starting AutoCAD for DOS.- The AutoCAD for Windows icon.- Creating a drawing.- The drawing window.- The File pull-down menu.- Drawing identification.- AutoCAD's menus.- Menu preferences.- How about a bit of doodling?.- The tool box.- Setting up the drawing environment.- Drawing size.- Drawing lines.- AutoCAD's command memory.- Linetypes and scales and colors.- Saving the drawing.- Adding some text.- HELP!.- Help - DOS Extender version.- Context sensitive help.- Finishing up.- A note on file security.- Summary.- 3 Cursor and Display Control.- General.- Layers.- Cursor location.- Rulers, grids and snapping.- Two dimensional coordinate notation.- Digital setsquares.- Snapping to objects.- ZOOM and PAN.- Keyboard toggles and transparent commands.- Finish for the time being.- Summary.- 4 Drawing and Editing.- General.- Rubbing out and OOPS.- Entity selection modes.- Erasing some lines.- Window selection.- OOPS! I didn't mean to rub that out.- Crossing windows and polygons.- The balloon drawing environment.- Creating circles, arcs and ellipses.- Circles.- Many ways to draw an ARC.- Rectangles and Ellipses.- Adding text.- Text styles.- Centered text.- Wide lines.- Aerial view.- Solid objects.- Shading with patterns.- Summary.- 5 Constructive Editing.- General.- Drawing the arch.- Editing a polyline with PEDIT.- Moving objects.- Rotating objects.- Copying.- Altering objects' characteristics.- Enlarging objects.- Stretching objects into shape.- Mirror image.- Multiple copies using ARRAY.- Rectangular arrays.- Circular arrays.- Non orthogonal rectangular arrays.- Finishing up.- Summary.- 6 Super-Entities.- General.- Making a block.- Inserting blocks.- Global blocks.- Making a library of useful symbols.- The kitchen sink.- Coloured blocks.- Editing a block.- Assigning text information to blocks.- Defining an attribute.- Drawing the kitchen.- Assembling the fitted kitchen.- Editing attributes.- A simple bill of materials.- Hints on using blocks.- AutoCAD's inquiry commands.- Summary.- 7 Advanced Drawing and Dimensioning.- General.- Drawing a gland.- Point and Divide.- Trimming entities.- Dimensioning.- Dimension style.- Editing dimensions.- Standard dimension variable settings.- Drawing a pentagon.- Wrapping up dimensions.- Summary.- 8 Adding Depth to Your Drawings with 3D CAD.- General.- Isometric projection.- The Express State Building in 2.5 dimensions.- Views and more views.- Multiple views.- Model space and paper space.- The Pyramids of Giza in glorious 3D.- Making the faces solid.- Define your own coordinate system.- The all seeing eye.- A dynamic viewpoint on visualisation.- Getting things in perspective.- AutoCAD's 3D box of tricks.- Meshes.- Generated surfaces.- 3D objects.- AME.- Summary.- 9 The Hardcopy - Printing and Plotting.- General.- Printing and plotting.- Printers.- Plotters.- Plotting the GLAND drawing.- Altering the plot parameters.- Scales and preview.- Saving a VIEW.- Multicolored plotting.- Plotting a view.- Postscript output.- Plotting to a file.- Plotting multiple viewports in paper space.- A simple title block for EXP-GIZA.- Paper space.- Manipulating metaviews.- Cross referencing drawing files.- Dependent blocks.- A note on XREF files.- Printing from Windows.- Windows system printer.- The softcopy.- Safety first.- Copying to other Windows applications.- Object linking and embedding.- Summary.- Appendix A: Configuration.- General.- The DOS environment.- Configuring AutoCAD.- Altering devices.- Summary.- Appendix B: Linetypes and Hatch Patterns.- General.- Linetype definition.- Hatch pattern defintiion.- Summary.