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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

Drawing Template 模板

A collection of standard predefined settings, such as units, title blocks, layers, text 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

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

Explode 分解

Convert a polyline into its most basic shapes such as lines and arcs

Explode a polyline, all the attributes associated with polylines, such as width, are lost and a separate object is created for each segment

Polyline 多段线

Polylines are special types of entities that incorporate segments such as lines and arcs into a single object

Use polylines can easily calculate a perimeter distance or the area of an irregular shape

Sharp corners are maintained in the offset

Polylines also have special properties:

■ Global Width

■ Start Segment Width

■ End Segment Width

Create Polyline

Create line and arc segments as a continuous single object

Pline - Arc - Line - Width (start, end width)

Polyline Edit 编辑多段线

Change certain characteristics of a polyline

Double-click on polyline to edit mode

Open

  

Join

Convert a line or arc into a polyline

 

Width

Tool Palettes 工具窗口

Organize and access the tools you use most often

Tool Palettes window contains a tab for each tool palette

Add tools to Palette

2 ways:

■ Drag blocks or drawing files from DesignCenter

■ Right-click and drag a single piece of geometry from the drawing to a palette

Insert objects from Tool Palette

Click an object and insert into the drawing

DesignCenter 设计中心

Reuse data from another drawing in the active drawing

Saves design time and helps ensure consistency across designs and among designers

 Tree View

 Preview

 Description

Tree View, Preview, Description can be turn off

Insert blocks from DesignCenter

2 ways:

1. Drag the block from DesignCenter into the drawing

2. Double-click on the block

Can set the Scale, Rotation angle