viii 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