Autodesk AUTOCAD 2006 User Manual

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Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 9 After you have taught running Osnaps, Osnap overrides, Tracking/TT, TK, and other methods for in

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 TEXT usage for one line at a time. Show your users how easy it is to create text and how to double click to

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 11 Background in Dimensions One new feature is to cut/copy and paste

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 Symbols are available from the context sensitive menu in MTEXT. Set the MTJIGSTRING system variable.

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 13 definition point. This works in both model space and paper space. Use your grips to stretch a r

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 Fields The use of Fields in AutoCAD can really change the way we user AutoCAD. We should spend time learn

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 15 Fields in MEXT strings. Fields in title blocks. The SHEET TITLE is a field. Use Fields for al

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 Fields for Layouts When we create a viewport and scale the viewport, we need to lock the scale. We can us

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 17 Cut and Past from Excel to create a table. In AutoCAD, use Edit>Paste Special>A

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 By extracting data directly to an AutoCAD Table you also get an notification bubble when the table need upda

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 19 In previous releases of AutoCAD, when hatching you must have closed and bounded geometry. Not

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 Use the new Hatch Origin setting and reset the hatch scale to get the needed drawing readability. The –HA

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 21 Presentation Drawings True color and gradient fills have been added to AutoCAD for hatching.

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 Tool Palettes Organization at its best! Keep your blocks, images, tables, custom hatches, your favorite

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 23 Once you select Customize, you can populate a Tool Palette with important content. Tool Palette

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 In this example, Design Center is used to drag to the Tool Palette. Blocks, hatch patterns, images and web c

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 25 Multiple Redo/Undo You can redo and Undo multiple commands. A history is remembered in lists for

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 The new Geometric calculator The new geometric calculator is designed to improve your design focus. You d

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 27 Blocks, Dynamic Blocks, External References and Hyperlinks New for AutoCAD 2006 is the use of Dyn

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 Once you have understood the various concepts of dynamic blocks, use the new BEDIT command to edit blocks or

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 AutoCAD 2006 will again change the paradigm for the way we draft, design or engineer. In this session, we

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 29 An Xref notification icon is displayed in the communications area when an Xref is attached to a d

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 Hyperlinks Use a hyperlink in you drawing to navigate to a Web site, another drawing, a Word documen

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 31 The second group of options to set is for your templates. This is very important so your users c

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 the password can open it. However, passwords do have drawbacks. What happens if you forget the password?

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 33 Personal Profiles and Scripts (Part1) You the User,, you the CAD Manager. You are both! (Wel

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 Create a script for resetting you system variables. (Part 2) Do Part 1 first. (The following is from

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 35 Select the Save All button to save your variables to a script file (*.scr) Type SCRIPT at th

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 Workspaces Workspaces are your menus, toolbars, palettes that are organized so that you can work in your cu

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 37 Plotting and Publishing - DWF’s and Markups Publishing DWF’s and Sheet Sets in AutoCAD 2006 Publ

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 Notice the Layout names and any Page setups that are assigned. (There is NO Page setups listed). Click on

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 3 Dynamic input is the new tool for heads-up design. It is the interface between AutoCAD and th

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 39 Batch Plotting You can also use the Publish command to act as a batch plotter. The key to bat

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 DWG TrueView and DWG TrueConvert DWG TrueView From the Autodesk website at: http://www.autodesk.com/dwgtr

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 41 Microsoft® Windows® XP Tablet PC Microsoft® Windows® 2000 New 3D features Here are just a

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 Below is a plot preview of the 3D object! When viewing and object in 3D, you can set Obscured lines, H

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 43 Once you have made these settings, HIDE the view and your view reflects the settings. (See belo

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 3D Osnap A new system variable OSNAPZ can be set to a value of 1 which specifies that object snaps ignore t

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 45 The Sheet Set Manager New improvement for AutoCAD 2006: • Refresh sheet status • Open multip

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 3. You import existing layouts from existing drawings or new drawings to create the Sheet Sets. 4. You can

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 47 Select the appropriate radio buttons to create a new Sheet Set. This is a simple example of organ

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 A simple Sheet Set I created in AutoCAD 2005 was that of my templates for my users. My users would go to th

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 What are you looking at? When you are introducing AutoCAD to new users or seasoned veterans you usually lo

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 49 The MAIN Customization file vs the Enterprise Customization file in AutoCAD 2006 The Main Customi

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 The ALIGN command for 2D (Been around for a long time!) You can use the ALIGN command to align raster to vec

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 51 Who has your file and Taskbar set to 1 If you are working in a network environment and need to kn

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 5 Using the zoom fly-out can help in viewing your drawing, but time should only be spent on learning

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 When was the last time you taught the creation of named views? If you are going to use Sheet Sets, views

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 7 TK is more versatile. When you need to position an object in relationship to other objects, typ

Tips and Techniques for AutoCAD® 2006 Tracking Learn Otrack and Polar tracking also. I always tell my users to keep these tracking tools on all