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AutoCAD and Its Applications—Advanced
Copyright Goodheart-Willcox Co., Inc.
BRIEF CONTENTS
Three-Dimensional Design Three-Dimensional Design
and Modeling and Modeling
1 Introduction to Three-Dimensional Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2 Creating Primitives and Composites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3 Viewing and Displaying Three-Dimensional Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
4 Understanding Three-Dimensional Coordinates
and User Coordinate Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
5 Using Model Space Viewports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
6 Model Extrusions and Revolutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
7 Sweeps and Lofts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
8 Creating and Working with Solid Model Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
9 Mesh Modeling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
10 Advanced Surface Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
11 Subobject Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
12 Solid Model Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
13 Text and Dimensions in 3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
14 Model Documentation, Analysis, and File Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
15 Point Clouds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Model Visualization and Presentation Model Visualization and Presentation
16 Visual Style Settings and Basic Rendering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
17 Materials in AutoCAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
18 Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
19 Advanced Rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
20 Using Show Motion to View a Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
21 Cameras, Walkthroughs, and Flybys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549