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Getting Started with DraftSight

Table of Contents

Getting Started with DraftSight

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code and graphics

Errata

Piracy

Questions

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

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

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

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 linestyles

Applying lineweights

Exercise 4.1

Summary

5. Inquiring Projects and Modifying Properties

Measuring distances and angles

Measuring areas

Obtaining coordinates

Verifying and modifying properties

Exercise 5.1

Summary

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

7. Creating and Applying Components

Creating components (blocks)

Inserting components

Exporting components

Editing components

Applying attributes

Cleaning the drawing

Exercise 7.1

Summary

8. Applying Fills and Patterns

Applying patterns

The Predefined and Custom types

User-defined type

Pattern origin

Boundary definition

Other options

Applying gradients

Editing fills and patterns

Exercise 8.1

Summary

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

10. Printing Efficiently

Creating and managing sheets for printing

Configuring sheets

Creating and managing print styles

Creating viewports

Adjusting viewport visualization, scale, and layers

Previewing and printing

Exercise 10.1

Summary

11. Advanced Tools

Referencing external drawings and images

Managing and linking external drawings and images

Clipping external drawings and images

Advanced layer commands

Exercise 11.1

Summary

Index