Getting started with DraftSight / João Santos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Santos, João, author.

Series:

Community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer drawing.

Computer graphics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (181 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file rdaft

Biography/History:

ANTONIO C DOS SANTOS JOAO: Joao Santos is the manager and main instructor at QualiCAD (www. qualicad. com), one of the most important Portuguese ATCs (Autodesk Authorized Training Center), based in Lisbon. With a degree in Mechanical Engineering, he has been teaching AutoCAD for more than 25 years and, most recently teaching several AutoCAD clones such as DraftSight, ZW CAD, ProgeCAD, BitCAD. He is an AutoCAD 2013 and 3ds Max 2013 Certified professional user and instructor, being also the Portuguese instructor in these technologies with more students. Joao is the author and co-author of more than 40 Portuguese AutoCAD and 3ds Max books. He is also the author of Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Practical 3D Drafting and Design, Packt Publishing.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""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""

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781782160250

1782160256

OCLC:

857713163