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Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Practical 3D Drafting and Design

By : JOAO ANTONIO C DOS SANTOS
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Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Practical 3D Drafting and Design

By: JOAO ANTONIO C DOS SANTOS

Overview of this book

AutoCAD is a computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting software application. AutoCAD supports both 2D and 3D formats. AutoCAD is used in a range of industries and is utilized by architects, project managers, and engineers, among others."Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Practical 3D Drafting and Design" will take you beyond the 2D frontier and help you create accurate 3D models that simulate reality. This book is crammed full of creative and practical tutorials which will help you master the third dimension. From exercises on coordinate systems to creating solids and surfaces from 2D, you will wonder how you ever designed without this resource by your side."Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Practical 3D Drafting and Design" is full of hands-on studies and projects that will help develop your 3D skills. Starting from the assumption of only a very basic knowledge of AutoCAD, this book will help you master 3D visualization and coordinate systems, create 3D models from 2D drawings, and from basic shapes, measure volumes, and other information, obtain 2D construction drawings from 3D models as well as how to apply lights and materials to get photorealistic images.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Practical 3D Drafting and Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


Besides modeling with solids, for some projects, surfaces can be useful. This chapter includes all commands related to surfaces and meshes, objects that do not have thickness. We started by identifying all categories that were developed in the chapter.

Besides the EXTRUDE, REVOLVE, SWEEP, and LOFT commands (presented in Chapter 4, Creating Solids and Surfaces from 2D) and the EXTRUDE and CONVTOSURFACE commands (presented in Chapter 5, 3D Primitives and Conversions), several other procedural surfaces commands are available, which are as follow:

  • SURFNETWORK: This command is used to create a surface from two sets of linear objects

  • SURFBLEND: This command is used to create a surface connecting two existing surfaces

  • SURFPATCH: This command is used to create a surface that closes a hole or an opening

  • SURFEXTEND: This command is used to create a surface by extending existing surfaces from selected edges

  • SURFOFFSET: This command is used to create surfaces parallel to the selected surfaces...