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| Chapter 1 Beginning Architectural Drawing Starting a New Drawing Selecting Menu Options Turning On Walls Drawing and Erasing Lines Creating Rectangular Polygons Adjusting the Display Adding a Door Adding Windows Quitting DataCAD Review and Important Points Practice Drawings Chapter 2 Adding Furniture and Text Loading a File Adding Furniture (Using Symbols) Creating and Naming Layers Shortcuts Adding Text Moving Text Review and Important Points Practice Drawings Chapter 3 3D Drawing Creating 3D Views Using the Viewing Sphere Hidden Line Removal Moving the Pictorial Image Changing Enlargement Factors Saving the Drawing Creating Perspective Views Review and Important Points Practice Drawings Chapter 4 Ferd’s Motel Room, Phase 1 Creating and Naming Drawing Layers Creating Walls Setting Snap Size Adding Plumbing Adding Interior Walls Cleaning Up Wall Intersections Review and Important Points Practice Drawings Chapter 5 Ferd’s Motel Room, Phase 2 Adding a Standard Door Centering a Door Centering and Cleaning a Wall Adding a Cut Wall Opening Adding a Bi-fold Door Adding a Sliding Door Creating a New Drawing File Review and Important Points Practice Drawings Chapter 6 Ferd’s Motel Room, Phase 3 Adding Furniture Changing the Symbol Scale Using Dynamic Rotation Changing the Z-Offset Review and Important Points Practice Drawings Chapter 7 Ferd’s Motel 8, Mirror & Group The Mirror Function The Rotation Function Review and Important Points Practice Drawings Chapter 8 Editing and Dimensioning Erasing Layers Removing a Door The Stretch Function Adding Dimensions Design Changes Review and Important Points Practice Drawings Chapter 9 3D Modeling, Ferd City Changing the Z-base Creating 3D Blocks The Copy Function Creating a Dome Adding Block Buildings Review and Important Points Practice Drawings |
Chapter 10 My Old House New Drawing and "Smart" Settings Set the Input Mode Establish the Layers Creating the First Floor Slab Setting Up the First Floor Exterior Walls Drawing the Exterior Walls Drawing the Interior Walls Inserting the Smart Windows Inserting the Smart Doors Adding the Second Floor Adding the Roof Adding Stairs Practice Drawings Chapter 11 Using the Framing Macro Creating Wall Framing Adding Openings Editing a Frame Adding Floor Framing to Your Plan Roof Framing Review and Important Points Practice Drawings Chapter 12 Using Saved Views and the Shader Moving the House to 0,0 Using GoTo View Using the Shader Function Light Intensity Creating a Slab Shadows Adding a Street Lamp Adding Background Images Adjusting Model Colors Using the Object Viewer Sun Shader Review and Important Points Practice Drawings Chapter 13 Detail Drawings Using the Layer Manager Creating a 2D Detail Drawing Changing Line Type Adding a Circle Adding Hatching Associative Hatching Creating Voids Non-Associative Hatching Review and Important Points Practice Drawings Chapter 14 Typical Wall Section Selecting a Line Type Trimming Lines Adding Blocking Adding Insulation Adding the Floor Adding Text Review and Important Points Practice Drawings Chapter 15 Creating and Modifying Symbols Create a 2D Symbol Create a 3D Symbol Explode a Symbol Placing Symbols Exploded Exploding Symbols After Placement Redefining Symbols Replacing Symbols Using the Symbol Editor Permanently Changing Symbols in the Hard Drive Review and Important Points Practice Drawings Appendix A The DataCAD X3 Project Book Quick Keys Appendix B Using Selection Sets and Masking The Selection Sets Menu The Mask Function Appendix C Using Object Viewer & Sun Shader Setting the DataCAD Rendering Settings Using the Object Viewer Assigning Materials Adjusting Opacity Using the Sun Shader Appendix D Input Methods and Identify, Set All Drawing With Relative Cartesian Drawing With Absolute Cartesian Drawing With Relative Polar Drawing With Absolute Polar Drawing With Direction/Distance Using Identify, Set All |
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