AutoCAD 2002 Inside and Out

• Make AutoCAD easier and faster to use
• Automate tedious and repetitive tasks
• Customize AutoCAD to fit your needs

The path she has designed is broken into three different sections: No Stress, Low Stress, and Bring on the Aspirin! The No Stress section covers the basics - although even the pros might find some meaty productivity tips in sections that address modifying object properties, construction commands, multilines, and the AutoCAD DesignCenter. The Low Stress section cranks up the dial a bit and wanders into slightly more advanced territory including external references, changes to everyday commands, dimensioning in paper space, and toolbar customization. The Bring on the Aspirin section is not for the faint of heart as you learn how to customize toolbars, pulldown menus, and the keyboard, automate the calculation of geometries, and explore the "World of Raster."

Lynn's fluency renders the toughest topics easy to understand and her trademark comedic style will lighten the burden as you trundle along to AutoCAD mastery.

Contents

• Introduction

• Feeling at home in AutoCad 2002
• The World of objects snaps
• Display commands - What you see is what you get !
• Grip me baby !
• Modifying objects propertieds
• Words, words, words
• The magical world of Mtext
• Text styles and other text tips !
• Hatch it !
• Clever constructions commands
• More to offer with multilines
• Diving down in AutoCad DesignCenter
• Going in circles with the new array command

• External references
• Editing and clipping external references
• A new dimension
• Demystifying dimensioning tabs
• Cool tricks in AutoCad
• Excellent changes to everyday commands in AutoCad 2002
• Splines and ellipses
• Cool systems variables (aka setvars)
• Finding your way in paper space
• Dimensioning in paper space
• Taking a tour through options

• Are you blocks smart ?
• Editing your attributes
• The down-and-dirty basics of customizing
• Button menus and accelerators keys
• Toolbar customization
• Customizing your pull-down menus
• The long-lost image title menus
• Customizing your keyboard in AutoCad 2002
• Limitless linetypes
• Calculate geometries
• The top secret filter command
• The world of raster
• Index