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1 online resource |
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Community experience distilled |
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Community experience distilled.
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| Contents |
Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction to DraftSight; Downloading and starting DraftSight; Understanding the user interface; Configuring DraftSight; Starting and setting up a drawing; Starting a drawing; Setting up a drawing; Opening, saving, and closing drawings; Summary; Chapter 2: Drawing with Precision; Defining coordinates; Absolute coordinates; Relative Cartesian coordinates; Relative polar coordinates; Drawing lines and deleting; Drawing lines; Selecting and deleting |
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Graphical auxiliary toolsOrtho and Polar; Entity snaps; Entity snap tracking; Snap and Grid; Visualization tools; Exercise 2.1; Summary; Chapter 3: Starting to Create Projects; Drawing circles and arcs; Drawing rectangles and polygons; Selecting entities; Moving, copying, and reflecting; Rotating and scaling; Offsetting and stretching; Trimming and extending; Filleting and chamfering; Exercise 3.1; Summary; Chapter 4: Structuring Projects and Following Standards; Creating and managing layers; The Layer list; The LAYER command; Filtering layers; Applying colors, linestyles, and lineweights |
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Applying colorsApplying line styles; Applying line weights; Exercise 4.1; Summary; Chapter 5: Inquiring Projects and Modifying Properties; Measuring distances and angles; Measuring areas; Obtaining coordinates; Verifying and modifying properties; Exercise 5.1; Summary; Chapter 6: Creating Complex Projects; Creating text styles and applying text; Creating polylines; Creating multiple equally spaced copies; Creating other entities; Creating tables and table styles; Joining, lengthening, and breaking the entities; Exercise 6.1; Summary; Chapter 7: Creating and Applying Components |
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Creating components (blocks)Inserting components; Exporting components; Editing components; Applying attributes; Cleaning the drawing; Exercise 7.1; Summary; Chapter 8: Applying Fills and Patterns; Applying patterns; Predefined and Custom types; User-defined type; Pattern origin; Boundary definition; Other options; Applying gradients; Editing fills and patterns; Exercise 8.1; Summary; Chapter 9: Documenting Projects; Creating linear dimensions; Creating angular dimensions; Dimensioning arcs and circles; Ordinate dimensions and leaders; Editing dimensions |
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Creating and managing dimension stylesExercise 9.1; Summary; Chapter 10: Printing Efficiently; Creating and managing sheets for printing; Configuring sheets; Creating and managing print styles; Creating viewports; Adjusting viewports visualization, scale, and layers; Previewing and printing; Exercise 10.1; Summary; Chapter 11: Advanced Tools; Referencing external drawings and images; Managing and linking external drawings and images; Clipping external drawings and images; Advanced layer commands; Exercise 11.1; Summary; Index |
| Summary |
Packed with illustrations and step-by-step guidelines, this book will serve as a guide for DraftSight and get you up and running with it!Getting Started withDraftSightis for anyyone who wants to create accurate 2D drawings in the DWG file format. It is also a great resource for architectural, engineering, or design professionals and students. The reader needs to have basic knowledge of CAD |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Computer drawing.
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Computer graphics
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Computer Graphics
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computer graphics.
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Computer drawing
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Computer graphics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1299832784 |
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9781299832787 |
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9781782160250 |
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1782160256 |
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9781782160243 |
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1782160248 |
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