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Chapter Review
Answer the following questions. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper
or complete the electronic chapter review on the companion website.
www.g-wlearning.com/CAD
1. Name the two types of content n n that n n are brought together h h to r create a complete drawing.
2. What commands can you use to modify the boundary of a f floating viewport?
3. Briefly explain how to create a polygonal viewport.
4. How can you convert n n an object created in paper space into a floating viewport?
5. How do you activate a floating viewport?
6. How can you tell that a viewport is active in paper space?
7. How 7 7 do you reactivate paper space after activating a floating viewport for editing?
8. How does the scale you assign to a floating viewport compare with the drawing
scale?
9. To what T T value should the CELTSCALE, PSLTSCALE, and MSLTSCALE system vari-
ables be set so that the LTSCALE value will be applied correctly in both model
space and paper space?
10. Viewport edges may cut offf the drawing when the viewport is correctly scaled.
List three options to display the entire view.
11. Why should h h you loc ck a viewport after you adjust d the to
reflect the prroper scale an nd view??
12.. Giive an example
removing
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11 . Wh y h h s h o u ld yo u l o k a v i ew p o r t a f te r yo u a d j u st t h e drawing in the viewport p o r t to
r e f l e c t t h e p o p e r s c a l e a d v i ew
1 2 G v e a n e x a m e of why h h you would hide objects in a floating viewport without t h o u t
r e the viewport.
13. What is a plot stamp?
14. If you make chang s to
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5. Give at least t reasons h h ou should always pr a s nding i n g
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Chapter 13
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Selection
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return to the drawing window to pick objects. The
to:
drop-down list
then displays
Current
selection
. To return to the entire format, choose the
Entire
drawing
option or check
Append to current
selection
et
at the bottom of the dialog box.
Pick a specifi
c object type from the
fi
type:
drop-down list to create a selec-
tion set according to the object type. The
Multiple
option displays
to different objects in the entire drawing or the selected objects. Pick a property from
the
Properties:
list to narrow the selection set. The items in the
Properties
list vary
depending on the specifi
ed object type or
fi
Multiple
option.
The
Value:
text box or drop-down list allows you to specify a property value to
narrow the selection set. Use the
Operator:
drop-down list to assign a
relative operator
to control which objects are selected according to the specifi
ed property value. For
fi
example, to select all
∅2″
circles in the drawing, select the
″
Entire drawing
option, a
Circle
object type, the
Diameter
property, and the
= Equals
operator, and type a value
The
Include in new
selection
set
radio button creates a selection set according
the quick select settings, as previously described. The
Exclude from new
selectionstoetof.2
radio button reverses the selection set to select all objects except those you specify.
Using the previous example, all objects except
∅2″
circles would be selected. Pick the
″
OK
button to create the selection set.
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Quick Select
dialog box by right-clicking in
the drawing area and choosing
Quick Select…
or by picking the
Quick
Select
button on the
Properties
palette.
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useful. For example, suppose you design a sheet metal part with
many different size holes (circle objects) different locations, and
20 of the holes accept 1/8″
screws. A design change occurs, and the
″
holes must accept 3/16″
screws instead. You could select and modify
″
each circle individually, but it is more
effimodify
cient to create a selection
fi
set of the 20 circles of the same size and them at the same
time. Use the
Quick
Properties
palette or the
Properties
palette to
adjust properties of objects selected using the
SELECTSIMILAR
and
Quick Select
commands. You can also use parametric tools, explained
in Chapter 22, to make all the circles equal in size. Then, when you
change the diameter of one circle, all circles change to the new value.
Exercise
13-15
Complete the exercise on the companion website.
www.g-wlearning.com/CAD
Object Selection
Filtersabout For detailed information selecting multiple objects using
the
Object Selection Filterchapter s
dialog box, go to the companion
website, navigate to this in the
Contents
tab, and select
Object Selection s. www.g-wlearning.com/CADFilter
Supplemental
Material
relative
operators:
In math, functions
that determine the
relationship between
data items.
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completing the exercises.
Exercise References
direct you to step-by-step
t tu tu t to to i ri ri l al al e e xerci xe rc is is es es o o n n the th th e
companion website. To
complete an exercise, go
to the companion website
(www.g-wlearning.com/CAD),
navigate na na vi vi ga ga te te to t t o o the th th e e
corresponding chapter in
the
Contents
tab, and select
the exercise.
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References R ef er en ce s d d irect ir ec t you yo u to to
additional material on the
companion website that
i is r levant el t t to t t h he curre t nt
chapter.