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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452751703321

Autore

Santos João

Titolo

Getting started with DraftSight / / João Santos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Birmingham, England : , : Packt Publishing, , 2013

ISBN

1-78216-025-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (181 p.)

Collana

Community experience distilled

Disciplina

620.0042

Soggetti

Computer drawing

Computer graphics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""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""; ""Graphical auxiliary tools""; ""Ortho 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""; ""Applying colors""; ""Applying 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""; ""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""; ""Creating and managing dimension styles""; ""Exercise 9.1""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 10: Printing Efficiently""; ""Creating and managing sheets for printing""; ""Configuring sheets""

""Creating and managing print styles""

Sommario/riassunto

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.