Customizing AutoCAD 2004

Author:
Sham Tickoo

Written in accordance with the design capabilities of AutoCAD 2004, this updated edition offers detailed explanations of customizing techniques for advanced users of AutoCAD.

All the various levels of customization in AutoCAD are examined in one comprehensive volume, from the basic topics of creating template drawings and customizing menus, to the more advanced features, such as modifying the AutoCAD environment in ways that help industry professionals meet the needs of their organization.

Thorough explanations are enhanced by live projects and examples that make it easy to comprehend and master the customizing concepts of AutoCAD 2004.

Benefits:

• step-by-step explorations of AutoCAD 2004 encourage users to interact with the Internet more effectively, reinforcing the concepts and techniques being learned
• completely up-to-date design makes the book more user friendly in accordance with the newest release of AutoCAD, with emphasis on toolbars, shortcut menus, and dialog boxes
• easy-to-understand format assumes that users have no programming background and therefore scrupulously explains all commands in a way that makes topics interesting to learn
• some advanced techniques like Accessing External database, Inquiry commands, and Rendering techniques have been included to aid design and construction professionals in creating presentations
• ample exercises, projects, review questions, and self-evaluations provide users with the practice and feedback necessary to ensure comprehension of the concepts learned

Contents:

Template Drawings.
Script Files.
Creating Linetypes and Hatch Patterns.
Customizing ACAD.
PGP File.
Pull-down, Shortcut, and Partial Menus and Customizing Toolbars.
Tablet Menus.
Image Tile Menus.
Button and Auxiliary Menus.
Screen Menus.
Customizing the Standard AutoCAD Menu.
Shape and Text Fonts.
AutoLISP.
AutoLISP: Editing and Drawing Database.
Visual LISP.
Programmable Dialog Boxes Using Dialog Control Language.
DIESEL: A String Expression Language.
Visual Basic.
Accessing External Databases.
Chapter Defining Block Attributes.
AutoCAD on the Internet.
Inquiry Commands, Data Exchange, and Object Linking and Embedding.
Rendering

640 Pages - 7-3/8 x 9-1/4 in.