Autodesk AutoCAD 2018 and Inventor 2018 Tutorial By Tutorial Books

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Autodesk AutoCAD
2018 and Inventor 2018
Tutorial

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INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................ xvi
Part 1: AutoCAD Basics ................................................................................................................. xx
Chapter 1: Introduction to AutoCAD 2018 ................................................................................. 1
Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 1
System requirements ................................................................................................................. 1
Starting AutoCAD 2018 ............................................................................................................. 2
AutoCAD user interface ............................................................................................................ 2
Changing the Color Scheme ................................................................................................ 3
Workspaces in AutoCAD .................................................................................................... 3
Application Menu ................................................................................................................. 5
Quick Access Toolbar ........................................................................................................... 5
File tabs .................................................................................................................................. 5
Graphics Window ................................................................................................................. 6
ViewCube .............................................................................................................................. 6
Navigation Bar ...................................................................................................................... 6
Command line ....................................................................................................................... 7
Status Bar ............................................................................................................................... 7
System Variables ................................................................................................................... 13
Menu Bar ................................................................................................................................ 15
Changing the display of the Ribbon .................................................................................. 16
Dialogs and Palettes ............................................................................................................. 17
Tool Palettes .......................................................................................................................... 17
Shortcut Menus ..................................................................................................................... 18
Selection Window ................................................................................................................. 19
Starting a new drawing ............................................................................................................. 21
Command List ............................................................................................................................ 24
3D Commands ...................................................................................................................... 38
Chapter 2: Drawing Basics ............................................................................................................ 47
Drawing Basics ........................................................................................................................... 47
Drawing Lines ....................................................................................................................... 47
Erasing, Undoing and Redoing .......................................................................................... 50
Drawing Circles .................................................................................................................... 51
Drawing Arcs ........................................................................................................................ 54
Drawing Polylines ................................................................................................................ 56
Drawing Rectangles ............................................................................................................. 57
Drawing Polygons ................................................................................................................ 59
Drawing Splines .................................................................................................................... 60
Drawing Ellipses ................................................................................................................... 62
Exercises ................................................................................................................................. 63
Chapter 3: Drawing Aids ............................................................................................................... 65
Drawing Aids .............................................................................................................................. 65
Setting Grid and Snap .......................................................................................................... 65
Setting the Limits of a drawing ........................................................................................... 66
Setting the Lineweight ......................................................................................................... 66
Using Ortho mode and Polar Tracking ............................................................................. 67
Using Layers .......................................................................................................................... 68
Using Object Snaps ............................................................................................................... 70
Running Object Snaps .......................................................................................................... 72
Cycling through Object Snaps ............................................................................................ 73
Using Object Snap Tracking ................................................................................................ 74
Linetype gap selection ......................................................................................................... 75
Using Zoom tools.................................................................................................................. 75
Panning Drawings ................................................................................................................ 79
Exercises ...................................................................................................................................... 79
Chapter 4: Editing Tools ................................................................................................................ 81
Editing Tools ............................................................................................................................... 81
The Move tool ....................................................................................................................... 81
The Copy tool ....................................................................................................................... 82
The Rotate tool ...................................................................................................................... 82
The Scale tool ......................................................................................................................... 82
The Trim tool ......................................................................................................................... 83
The Extend tool ..................................................................................................................... 84
The Fillet tool ......................................................................................................................... 84
The Chamfer tool .................................................................................................................. 85
The Mirror tool ...................................................................................................................... 86
The Explode tool ................................................................................................................... 87
The Stretch tool ..................................................................................................................... 88
The Polar Array tool ............................................................................................................. 88
The Offset tool ....................................................................................................................... 90
The Path Array tool .............................................................................................................. 92
The Rectangular Array tool ................................................................................................ 92
Editing Using Grips .............................................................................................................. 93
Modifying Rectangular Arrays ........................................................................................... 98
Modifying Polar Arrays ....................................................................................................... 102
Revision Clouds .................................................................................................................... 104
Exercises ...................................................................................................................................... 105
Chapter 5: Multi View Drawings ................................................................................................. 113
Multi view Drawings ................................................................................................................. 113
Creating Orthographic Views ............................................................................................. 113
Creating Auxiliary Views .................................................................................................... 119
Creating Named views ........................................................................................................ 124
Exercise 1 ..................................................................................................................................... 125
Exercise ........................................................................................................................................ 125
Exercise 3 ..................................................................................................................................... 125
Exercise 4 ..................................................................................................................................... 126
Chapter 6: Dimensions and Annotations ................................................................................... 127
Dimensioning .............................................................................................................................. 127
Creating Dimensions ............................................................................................................ 127
Creating a Dimension Style ................................................................................................. 138
Adding Leaders .................................................................................................................... 141
Adding Dimensional Tolerances ........................................................................................ 143
Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing ....................................................................... 144
Editing Dimensions by Stretching ...................................................................................... 147
Modifying Dimensions by Trimming and Extending ..................................................... 148
Using the DIMEDIT command ........................................................................................... 149
Using the Update tool .......................................................................................................... 150
Using the Oblique tool ......................................................................................................... 151
Editing Dimensions using Grips ........................................................................................ 154
Modifying Dimensions using the Properties palette ....................................................... 155
Matching Properties of Dimensions or Objects ................................................................ 156
Exercise 1 ............................................................................................................................... 157
Exercise 2 ............................................................................................................................... 157
Exercise 3 ............................................................................................................................... 158
Chapter 7: Parametric Tools .......................................................................................................... 159
Parametric Tools ......................................................................................................................... 159
Geometric Constraints ......................................................................................................... 159
Dimensional Constraints ..................................................................................................... 168
Creating equations using the Parameters Manager ......................................................... 170
Creating Inferred Constraints ............................................................................................. 171
Exercise 1 ............................................................................................................................... 172
Chapter 8: Section Views ............................................................................................................... 173
Section Views .............................................................................................................................. 173
The Hatch tool ....................................................................................................................... 173
Setting the Properties of Hatch lines .................................................................................. 177
Island Detection tools ........................................................................................................... 179
Text in Hatching ................................................................................................................... 181
Editing Hatch lines ............................................................................................................... 182
Exercise 1 ............................................................................................................................... 182
Exercise 2 ............................................................................................................................... 183
Chapter 9: Blocks, Attributes and Xrefs ...................................................................................... 185
Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 185
Creating Blocks ..................................................................................................................... 185
Inserting Blocks ..................................................................................................................... 186
Creating Annotative Blocks................................................................................................. 187
Exploding Blocks .................................................................................................................. 188
Using the Purge tool ............................................................................................................. 189
Using the Divide tool ........................................................................................................... 189
Renaming Blocks .................................................................................................................. 190
Inserting Blocks in a Table ................................................................................................... 191
Using the DesignCenter ....................................................................................................... 192
Using Tool Palettes ............................................................................................................... 194
Inserting Multiple Blocks ..................................................................................................... 196
Editing Blocks........................................................................................................................ 196
Using the Write Block tool ................................................................................................... 197
Defining Attributes ............................................................................................................... 199
Inserting Attributed Blocks ................................................................................................. 201
Working with External references ...................................................................................... 201
Fading an Xref ....................................................................................................................... 203
Clipping External References .............................................................................................. 203
Editing the External References .......................................................................................... 204
Adding Balloons ................................................................................................................... 205
Creating Part List .................................................................................................................. 206
Exercise .................................................................................................................................. 208
Chapter 10: Layouts & Annotative Objects ................................................................................ 211
Drawing Layouts ........................................................................................................................ 211
Working with Layouts ......................................................................................................... 211
Creating Viewports in the Paper space ............................................................................. 213
Changing the Layer Properties in Viewports ................................................................... 216
Creating the Title Block on the Layout .............................................................................. 217
Working with Annotative Dimensions .............................................................................. 217
Scaling Hatches relative to Viewports ............................................................................... 220
Working with Annotative Text ........................................................................................... 221
Exercise 1 ............................................................................................................................... 222
Chapter 11: Templates and Plotting ............................................................................................ 225
Plotting Drawings ...................................................................................................................... 225
Configuring Plotters ............................................................................................................. 225
Creating Plot Style Tables .................................................................................................... 226
Using Plot Styles ................................................................................................................... 227
Creating Templates .............................................................................................................. 229
Plotting/Printing the drawing ............................................................................................ 229
Exporting to PDF ........................................................................................................................ 230
Importing to PDF ....................................................................................................................... 231
Combining Text of the Imported PDF ............................................................................... 231
Publishing a 2D Drawing to a Browser ................................................................................... 232
Exercise .................................................................................................................................. 233
Chapter 12: 3D Modeling Basics .................................................................................................. 235
Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 235
3D Modeling Workspaces in AutoCAD .................................................................................. 235
The 3D Modeling Workspace.............................................................................................. 236
The Box tool ........................................................................................................................... 239
Creating the User Coordinate System................................................................................ 239
Creating a Wedge ................................................................................................................. 240
Creating a Cylinder .............................................................................................................. 241
Using Dynamic User Coordinate System .......................................................................... 244
Model Space Viewports for 3D Modeling ......................................................................... 245
Creating Other Primitive Shapes ............................................................................................. 246
Creating Cones ...................................................................................................................... 246
Creating a Sphere .................................................................................................................. 247
Creating a Torus ................................................................................................................... 247
Creating a Pyramid .............................................................................................................. 247
Using the Polysolid tool ....................................................................................................... 248
Using the Extrude tool ......................................................................................................... 248
Using the Revolve tool ......................................................................................................... 250
Using the Sweep tool ............................................................................................................ 251
Using the Loft tool ................................................................................................................ 252
Using the Presspull tool ....................................................................................................... 254
Performing Boolean Operations ......................................................................................... 256
Using the Helix tool .............................................................................................................. 260
Exercises ................................................................................................................................. 261
Chapter 13: Solid Editing & generating 2D views .................................................................... 263
Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 263
Using the Move tool ............................................................................................................. 263
Using the 3D Move tool ....................................................................................................... 264
Using the Array tool ............................................................................................................. 264
Using the 3D Align tool ....................................................................................................... 265
Using the 3D Mirror tool ..................................................................................................... 267
Using the Fillet Edge tool .................................................................................................... 269
Using the Taper Faces tool .................................................................................................. 271
Using the Offset Faces tool .................................................................................................. 272
Using the 3D Rotate tool ...................................................................................................... 272
Using the 3D Polyline tool ................................................................................................... 273
Creating a 3D Polar Array ................................................................................................... 274
Using the Shell tool ............................................................................................................... 275
Using the Chamfer Edge tool .............................................................................................. 275
Using the Section Plane tool ............................................................................................... 276
Using the Live Section tool .................................................................................................. 276
Creating Drawing Views ........................................................................................................... 276
Setting the Drafting Standard ............................................................................................. 276
Creating a Base View ........................................................................................................... 277
Creating a Projected View ................................................................................................... 278
Creating Section Views ........................................................................................................ 278
Creating the Section View Style .......................................................................................... 278
Creating a Full Section View ............................................................................................... 279
Creating a Detailed View ..................................................................................................... 279
Exercises ................................................................................................................................. 280
Chapter 14: Creating Architectural Drawings ........................................................................... 285
Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 285
Creating Outer Walls ........................................................................................................... 285
Creating Inner Walls ............................................................................................................ 287
Creating Openings and Doors ............................................................................................ 290
Creating Kitchen Fixtures .................................................................................................... 296
Creating Bathroom Fixtures ................................................................................................ 299
Adding Furniture using Blocks .......................................................................................... 301
Adding Windows ................................................................................................................. 303
Arranging Objects of the drawing in Layers .................................................................... 306
Creating Grid Lines .............................................................................................................. 308
Adding Dimensions ............................................................................................................. 310
Exercise .................................................................................................................................. 313
Part 2: Inventor Basics .................................................................................................................... cccxiv
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Autodesk Inventor 2018 ....................................................... 315
Starting Autodesk Inventor ...................................................................................................... 316
User Interface .............................................................................................................................. 317
Ribbon .................................................................................................................................... 317
File Menu ............................................................................................................................... 319
Quick Access Toolbar ........................................................................................................... 320