Welcome! Here you’ll find bonus content, plus the drawings for the exercises.
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AutoCAD 2013 and AutoCAD LT 2013 Bible
AutoCAD 2015 and AutoCAD LT 2015 Bible
AutoCAD 2013 and AutoCAD LT 2013 Bible
- Drawings for the exercises
- Results of the exercises
- 15 bonus chapters
- 7 chapter addenda plus AutoCAD resource links
- 5 video tutorials
- Quick Start chapter
- Preview properties and command line options (new features)
- VIEWBASE command with sections and details (updated feature)
- Path array (unique to this web page)
- Basic 3D solids (unique to this web page)
- A free copy of my 50-page ebook, Top 25 AutoCAD Productivity Tips Every AutoCAD User Should Know: Draw and Edit Faster(unique to this web page)
- Several AutoLISP programs — see below (unique to this web page)
Thanks to Len Nemirovsky for these routines. You can find many more at his website, Better Than Nothing.
Name |
Description
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Ar1 | Creates a label of the area of an enclosed polyline. |
Idt | Lets you specify spacing between lines of dtext |
It | Lets you specify spacing between lines of text. |
Mmt | Merges two Mtext objects. |
Pend | Creates a pipe break symbol in a line. |
Psp1 | Automates the setting of scales for paper space, creating viewports, and switching between viewports and corresponding views in model space. |
Sfld | Creates custom fields. |
Stmplot | Adds drawing information to plots. |
Wb | Creates a list of blocks in a folder, and wblocks the blocks to that folder. |
Thanks to Terry Dotson for these routines. You can find many more at his website, Dotsoft.
Name | Description |
Arcsum | Lists the total length of a selection set of arcs. |
Layerhtm2 | Displays a copy of the Layer Properties Manager dialog box in your browser so that you can print it. |
Linesum | Provides the total length of selected lines. |
Mhatch | Creates solid fills for a selection of closed objects. |
Polydis | Reports the length of a selected polyline. |
Quickkey | “Super-Alias” replacement for acad.pgp that supports command options like ZOOM Previous. |
Txtexprt | Exports Text objects to a text file. |
Txtstack | Adjusts spacing between lines of single-line text. |
Wblockm | Creates individual drawings (write blocks) of all the blocks in a drawing, in a folder that you specify. |
AutoCAD 2015 and AutoCAD LT 2015 Bible
- Drawings for the exercises
- Results of the exercises
- Bonus Chapter 1: Working with External Databases
- Bonus Chapter 2: Rendering in 3D
- Bonus Chapter 3: Programming with Visual Basic for Applications
- Bonus Chapter 4: Programming with .NET
- Links from Appendix B (AutoCAD Resources)
- My 50-page e-book, Top 25 AutoCAD Productivity Tips Every AutoCAD User Should Know: Draw and Edit Faster