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Take your AutoCAD skills to the next level - master its 3D modeling capabilities. Using the same 2D commands and tools you are accustomed to drafting with, you can actually construct the object you are designing. From that model, you can produce renderings and dimensioned, multi-view 2D drawings that will ensure accurate manufacture.
Take your AutoCAD skills to the next level - master its 3D modeling capabilities. Using the same 2D commands and tools you are accustomed to drafting with, you can actually construct the object you are designing. From that model, you can produce renderings and dimensioned, multi-view 2D drawings that will ensure accurate manufacture.
You get a complete and thoroughly illustrated explanation of all of the concepts and principles of AutoCAD's 3D features and you get experience using them with hands-on exercises. Detailed descriptions of every 3D AutoCAD command are included so you can:
· Work with 3D wireframe, surface, and solid models
· Build surface models and sculpted free-form models
· Build solid models from profiles and primitives
· Make complex, solid models with Boolean operations
· Make conventional 2D drawings from 3D models
· Render 3D Models using lights, surface opacities, and textures
About the Author
John E. Wilson, a columnist for CADENCE magazine since 1991, runs a one-person design and drafting service. While the bulk of his work involves mechanical parts, he has worked in a wide variety of other fields, ranging from water treatment plant piping to control diagrams for electrical motors. John has contributed a regular column to CADENCE since 1993 that focuses on the 3D features of AutoCAD and Mechanical Desktop. He is also the author of the book, Mechanical Desktop 5: Parametric Modeling.
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following command line input, perspective viewing mode, shaded viewing modes, automobile oil pan, base viewport, polygon mesh surfaces, wireframe viewing mode, folder file contents, surftabl system variable, dispsilh system variable, polyline family, system variable dispsilh, view direction angle, issues command line, paper space drawing, current floating viewport, second selection set, mass property report, floating viewports, wireframe objects, elemental box, rubberband rectangle, command first asks, fit point data, isolines system variable Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Photo Real, Exercise Two, Photo Raytrace, Landscape New, Find File, Map Style, User Coordinate System, Adjust Clipping Planes, World Coordinate System, File Name, Getting Started, Visualizing Surface Models, Adjust Material Bitmap Placement, Landscape Edit, Adjust Bitmap, Adjust Coordinates, Ruled Surface, Light Name, Maintain Aspect Ratio, Named Viewports, Near Distance, Quaking Aspen, Ray Traced Shadows Color, Spline Ellipse, Sub Sampling New!
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This chapter will help you establish a foundation for working in 3D space. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
following command line input, perspective viewing mode, shaded viewing modes, automobile oil pan, base viewport, polygon mesh surfaces, wireframe viewing mode, folder file contents, surftabl system variable, dispsilh system variable, polyline family, system variable dispsilh, view direction angle, issues command line, paper space drawing, current floating viewport, second selection set, mass property report, floating viewports, wireframe objects, elemental box, rubberband rectangle, command first asks, fit point data, isolines system variable Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Photo Real, Exercise Two, Photo Raytrace, Landscape New, Find File, Map Style, User Coordinate System, Adjust Clipping Planes, World Coordinate System, File Name, Getting Started, Visualizing Surface Models, Adjust Material Bitmap Placement, Landscape Edit, Adjust Bitmap, Adjust Coordinates, Ruled Surface, Light Name, Maintain Aspect Ratio, Named Viewports, Near Distance, Quaking Aspen, Ray Traced Shadows Color, Spline Ellipse, Sub Sampling New!
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