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| Featured LD Assistant Rendering |
If a picture is worth a thousand words... then here's a few thousand!
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| Special thanks to Kevin Denzel for allowing us to show some of his work. |
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| ARTICLES & HOW TO |
| Is Your Hardware Preventing Your CAD Software from Reaching Its Potential? - Curt Moreno, CADspeed |
| Create a Custom Keyboard Shortcut - AutoCAD customization tutorial, Ellen Finkelstein, AutoCAD Tips Blog |
| Creating Linetypes Tool - 'make linetype' command in AutoCAD, Gil Cordle, CAD Clues |
| Software Fireworks - creating associative array, adjusting row count, spacing, editing source object, Michael Beall, CADTutor |
| How Do You Share DWG Files? - ETRANSMIT command packages set of DWG files, Dean Saadallah, LT IS STILL AUTOCAD |
| AutoCAD Snap - No Longer a Drawing Mode to Avoid - snap mode turns off automatically in AutoCAD 2012, easy-to-expand grid display can display snap grid as X,Y grid, dotted grid, John Hackney, IMAGINiT Manufacturing Solutions Blog |
| AutoCAD Tip: Text Alignment Technique - using ROTATE command to align AutoCAD text to angled object, Brian Curran, CAD Notes |
| Annotative Scale, Dimension Styles, Text Styles and Tool Palettes in AutoCAD - inability to manage styles through library file, ARCHIdigm |
| AutoCAD WS and 123D Integration - publish 3D models as 2D drawings in AutoCAD WS, Daniel Swords, AutoCAD WS Blog |
| Overview of UCS Control Options - modifying UCS in AutoCAD 2012, Robert Green, AutoCAD Exchange |
| Rotated But Not Aligned - working with isometric drawings that are not perfectly square using AutoCAD, Isaac Harper, AutoCAD Exchange |
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| AutoCAD WS |
| Why It's Better to Upload with AutoCAD - uploads xrefs, support files automatically; Tal Weiss, AutoCAD WS Blog |
| Guide to Getting Help at AutoCAD WS - tutorials covering basics of mobile app for AutoCAD WS, Daniel Swords, AutoCAD WS Blog |
| AutoCAD WS: Go Mobile and Collaborate in Real Time - sharing drawing file through AutoCAD WS, Lynn Allen of Autodesk, CADspeed |
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| Other Stuff |
| Photofly, a Free App, Makes 3D Models Out of Your Snapshots - Photofly uses photogrammetry technique to extract 3D shape of scene from 2D images, John Pavlus, Co.Design |
| Photo Scene Editor v2 Evaluation 1 - instructional video for creating 3D model from 2D images, Arthur Hughes |
| Photo Scene Editor v2 Evaluation 2 - creating models using real world scenes from neighborhood using Project Photofly, Arthur Hughes |
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| Hardware for the CAD Professional |
| Wide Angles - 36" printer from Canon, imagePROGRAF iPF 755, has resolution of 1200x1200, automatically switches to finer resolutions when needed, selects appropriate amount of ink to be used, David Chadwick, CAD User |
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| Professional Online CAD Training by Art Whitton |
| For 11 years Art Whitton has offered the best online CAD tutorials and training for new and experienced users. The lessons are adapted from a four level course he developed for new CAD users. Originally, the tutorials were deigned for Release 14 and have now been updated and adapted for LD Assistant or AutoCAD 2010. These tutorials will work flawlessly for LD Assistant or AutoCAD 2012. Art's approach has always been to teach the commands in their context and in a natural progression. |
| CAD LEVEL 1 - Beginners |
| LESSON 1-2 ASSIGNMENT 1 INTRO TO DRAWING & MODIFYING |
| LESSON 1-3 ASSIGNMENT 2 MORE MODIFYING COMMANDS - OSNAPS |
| LESSON 1-4 ASSIGNMENT 3 - ACCURATE INPUT |
| LESSON 1-5 SELECTION SETS |
| LESSON 1-6 ASSIGNMENT 4 MODIFYING COMMANDS |
| LESSON 1-7 ASSIGNMENT 5 MODIFYING COMMANDS |
| LESSON 1-8 ASSIGNMENT 6 LAYERS / DIMENSIONING / TEXT / SCALE |
| LESSON 1-9 DIRECT DISTANCE ENTRY AND OBJECT TRACKING |
| LESSON 1-10 CHANGING THE PROPERTIES OF OBJECTS |
| LESSON 1-11 ZOOMING AND PANNING AROUND A DRAWING |
| LESSON 1-12 ORTHOGRAPHIC PROJECTION |
| LESSON 1-13 SECTION VIEWS |
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| CAD LEVEL 2 - Intermediate |
| LESSON 2-1 PLANNING A PROJECT - OFFICE FLOOR PLAN |
| LESSON 2-2 INTRODUCTION TO BLOCKS - CREATING AND INSERTING |
| LESSON 2-3 ALIGN AND ROTATE |
| LESSON 2-4 ATTRIBUTES - NON-GRAPHICAL INFORMATION |
| LESSON 2-5 HATCHING - FILLING AREAS |
| LESSON 2-6 WORKING WITH TEXT |
| LESSON 2-7 WORKINF WITH POLYLINES |
| LESSON 2-8 LAYOUT TABS |
| LESSON 2-9 PARAMETRIC CONSTRAINTS |
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| CAD LEVEL 3 - Advanced |
| LESSON 3-1 INTRODUCTION TO 3-D |
| LESSON 3-2 ISOMETRIC DRAWING |
| LESSON 3-3 WORKING IN 3 DIMENSIONS |
| LESSON 3-4 VIEWING 3-D OBJECTS |
| LESSON 3-5 BASIC WIREFRAME MODELS |
| LESSON 3-6 LINE THICKNESS |
| LESSON 3-7 REGIONS AND 3-D FACES |
| LESSON 3-7a MORE ABOUT EXTRUDING & LOFTING |
| LESSON 3-8 REVOLVED OBJECTS |
| LESSON 3-9 ADDING MATERIALS |
| LESSON 3-10 PRIMITIVE SOLIDS |
| LESSON 3-11 BOOLEAN OPERATIONS |
| LESSON 3-12 CHANGING FROM THE WCS TO THE UCS |
| LESSON 3-13 MAPPING MATERIALS |
| LESSON 3-14 CREATING NEW MATERIALS |
| LESSON 3-15 EXTRA PROJECTS AND A TUTORIAL |