Best-selling AutoCAD 2007 book - recently updated!
The 74-page book is contains tutorials for learning AutoCAD 2007’s visual styles system. The book feature six chapters with many practical examples for learning & training.
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Tailoring Visual Styles eBook. The Visual Styles customizing book by Ralph Grabowski covering AutoCAD 2007 Visual Styles. Tailoring Visual Styles is the fourth in Ralph Grabowski’s series of “mini” e-books for the AutoCAD user.
• Guided tour of visual styles.
• Explore Tool Palette & Dashboard
• Explore Visual Styles toolbar, & Visual Styles palette.
• Commands and system variables that affect visual styles.
• Perplexing Background and Ground Shadow options simplified.
• Two full-length tutorials on working with visual styles.
• 130 figures and dozens of tips.
Tailoring Visual Styles eBook walks you through the Where’s and Hows of AutoCAD 2007 Visual Styles. Readers are given the opportunity to practice and apply the examples and tips throughout this book.
As with all Ralph Grabowski PDF books:
• All illustrations in full color.
• Formatted for printing on standard 8.5×11 paper.
• Margins designed for three-hole punching.
Table Of Contents For: tailoring AutoCAD 2007
Chapter 1: Introduction to AutoCAD 2007 Visual Styles:
The Where’s and Hows of Visual Styles, Visual Style Names, Plotting and Rendering Considerations.
The Range of Visual Style Properties.
Invoking Visual Styles, Visual Styles Toolbar and Menu
3D Terms.
Chapter 2: Visual styles on tool palettes:
Trying Out Visual Styles, Visual Style: X-Ray, Visual Style: Sketchy, Visual Style: Shades of Gray.
Visual Style Tool Palette Options.
Changing Visual Styles on Tool Palettes.
Adding Visual Styles to Tool Palettes.
Chapter 3: Visual styles & the dashboard:
Touring the Visual Styles Control Panel.
Toolbar, X-Ray Mode, Shadows, Face Colors, Tuning Dialog, Visual Styles Manager.
Predefined Visual Styles.
Face Styles, Face Styles, Facets or Smooth.
Edge Styles, Facet Edges/IsoLines, Edge Overhang, Edge Jitter, Silhouette Edges.
Hidden & Intersection Line Colors, Obscured Edges, Intersection Edges.
Chapter 4: The visual styles palette:
*Shortcut Menu Option*s
Face Settings, Face Style, Materials and Color, Toolbar.
Environment Settings, Adjusting Shadows, Edge Settings, Edge Modifiers, Edge Modifiers Toolbar, Fast Silhouette Edges, Obscured Edges, Intersection Edges.
Chapter 5: Tutorial 1: creating visual styles:
Step 1 — Determine Probable Parameters.
Step 2 — Name the New Style.
Step 3 — Fiddling With Properties, Fast Silhouette Edges — On, Edge Mode — Facet Edges, Crease Angle — 180, Face Settings — None, Obscured Edges — Off, Backgrounds — On.
Step 4 — Sharing Via Tool Palette.
Step 5 — Drawing Test.
Chapter 6: Tutorial 2: CUI & visual styles:
Adding Custom Vs-Commands.
Catalog of Visual Style Commands in CUI
Appendix A — command & sysvar summary:
Related Commands
Related System Variables
Appendix b — supported graphics boards:
About the author:
Ralph Grabowski has authored and coauthored 80+ books on CAD management, ArchiCAD, AutoCAD, Generic CADD, IntelliCAD, MicroStation, TurboCAD, VDraft, Visio, HTML, and VRML. He is the editor of two e-newsletters, upFront.eZine and IMAGINiT.eZine, and maintains a Weblog.
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