Thursday, March 26, 2009

AutoCAD Free Trial


AutoCAD Software

PC requirements:

Intel® Pentium® 4 processor or AMD® Athlon
2.2 GHz or greater
RAM
1 GB (Windows XP SP2)
2 GB or greater (Windows Vista)
Graphic Card
1280 x 1024 32-bit color video display adapter (True Color)
RAM 128 MB or greater
OpenGL®, or Direct3D® capable workstation class graphics card

Operation System

Windows XP Home, Service Pack 2
Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2
Windows Vista Enterprise
Windows Vista Business
Windows Vista Ultimate
Windows Vista Home Premium

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Drawing Template 模板

A collection of standard predefined settings, such as units, title blocks, layerstext styles, and dimension styles

Store standards or guidelines in the form of drawing properties and other settings
Ensure a consistent look and functionality
Drawing template files have a .dwt file extension

Properties and Settings
1. Units settings
2. Layers
3. Dimension Styles
4. Text Styles
5. Linetype
6. Table Styles
7. Layout
8. Page Setup
9. Title Block

Plotting 打印


Plot from Layout


1. Click to active the layout
2. Plotting Paper
3. Printable Area
4. Viewports
5. Paperspace icon

Plot from Model space


1. Click to activate Model space
2. UCS icon


Select "Window" from the list


Click a point to another point to specify the area


Plot result

Publish
Publishing gives the ability to create a list of drawings to plot, select what to plot from multiple files 
Save the selected information as a Drawing Set Descriptions (DSD) file
DSD file can easily open and plot the data from the drawing list without having to reiterate 重复 what and how to plot

Plot Preview 打印预览

Review a full-page version of how the final plot will appear on the printed sheet or in the electronic file



Page Setup 页面设置


Easily plotting a layout in different ways and for quickly configuring a layout

Page Setup Manager

Activate a page setup for a layout by Set Current or modify your page setups
Create new page setups, and import a page setup from a different drawing file

Activate Page Setup from Quick View Layouts


1. Click Quick View Layouts
2. Select the layout
3. Right-click - Page Setup Manager

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Table 表格


Organize data into columns and rows

Table Style 表格样式

Control the appearance of tables


4. Select Cell styles (Data, Header, Title)
5. Set properties for each cell styles

Insert Table


1. Select the Table Style
4. Set the number of Column and Row
5. Set the cell styles

Entering Table Data

Use arrow key to navigate between cells


Enter standard spreadsheet-style formulas


Use Auto-Fill grip to copy a formula


Single-click a cell to access the Table formatting options

Ellipse 椭圆


A circle tilted on a plane at a specified rotation angle


A closed curve generated by four fixed points defining major and minor axes and crossing at right angles through the center point

Ellipse Arc 椭圆弧



Creates a section of an ellipse

Spline 样条曲线


Curves which fit through control points using nonuniform rational B-splines (NURBS)


A smooth free-form line or edge that cannot be defined with straight lines and arcs, such as the curved edge
Curve elements of splines are not true arcs nor polylines

Create Spline

Open Spline

Spline Edit 编辑样条曲线


Edit by grips