The Classic AutoCAD Resource—Now Covering the Latest Release of AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT

Mastering AutoCAD 2004 and AutoCAD LT 2004 is a fully updated and enhanced edition of Omura's classic. If you've never used AutoCAD, the tutorial approach and step-by-step instruction will get you started right away. If you're familiar with an earlier release, in-depth explanations of AutoCAD's newest and most advanced features will quickly take your work to the next level. Whatever your experience, however you use AutoCAD, this is an indispensable resource that you'll refer to again and again. Coverage includes:

• Finding your way around the AutoCAD interface
• Creating and developing an AutoCAD drawing
• Managing your drawing projects
• Controlling your drawings' printed output
• Previewing your drawings using WYSIWYG plotting
• Discovering hidden features
• Mastering the 3D modeling and rendering process
• Customizing AutoCAD
• Taking advantage of AutoCAD's Internet features
• Linking drawings to databases and spreadsheets
• Combining tools to accomplish complex tasks
• Managing custom symbols
• Securing and authenticating your files
• Aligning and coordinating Layout views
• Customizing and using the new Tool Palettes
• Using Publish to share files with non-AutoCAD users

Contents

• Introduction
• Introduction to the Visual Studio NET IDE
• Introduction to Visual C++ NET Programming
• Object-Based Programming
• Operator Overloading
• Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance
• Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism
• Exception Handling
• Graphical User Interface Concepts: Part 1
• Graphical User Interface Concepts: Part 2
• Multithreading
• Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions
• Graphics and Multimedia
• Files and Streams
• Extensible Markup Language (XML)
• Database, SQL and ADONET
• Web Services
• Networking: Streams-Based Sockets and Datagrams
• Data Structures and Collections
• Accessibility
• Introduction to Unmanaged Code in Visual C++ NET
• Attributed Programming in ATL/COM
• ATL Server Web Applications
• Managed and Unmanaged Interoperability
• COM Interoperability Services
• Appendix A Operator Precedence Chart
• Appendix B Number Systems
• Appendix C ASCII Character Set
• Appendix D Unicode
• Appendix E Introduction to XHTML: Part 1
• Appendix F Introduction to XHTML: Part 2
• Appendix G XHTML Special Characters
• Appendix H XHTML Colors
• Appendix I Bit Manipulation