Title:
The official DataCAD user's guide
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Publication Information:
New York : McGraw-Hill, 2001
Physical Description:
1 CD-ROM ; 12 cm
ISBN:
9780071363563
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Accompanies text with the same title : (NA2728 S57 2001)
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Summary
Summary
A comprehensive guide to the popular architectural software, DataCAD. Released to coincide with the release of version 9.0, the book covers aspects of the software including how to reference external drawing files and open multiple documents at the same time for cut and paste; use basic settings and display options; create and use layering techniques for organizing architechtural drawings; and customize drawing conventions. The accompanying CD-ROM includes a demo of version 9.0; tutorial drawings; graphic conversion for use with AutoCAD, and many examples and images.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| How to Use This Book | p. xvii |
| Chapter 1 CAD Concepts | p. 1 |
| The Basics of CAD | p. 3 |
| Layers | p. 4 |
| Linetypes | p. 6 |
| Symbols | p. 6 |
| Architectural Functions | p. 7 |
| Copy | p. 8 |
| Move | p. 9 |
| Change | p. 9 |
| Stretch | p. 10 |
| Reusability | p. 11 |
| Backing It All Up | p. 12 |
| Chapter 2 Getting Started | p. 15 |
| About DataCAD | p. 16 |
| Why Use DataCAD? | p. 17 |
| What DataCAD Does Not Do | p. 18 |
| Metrics in DataCAD | p. 20 |
| New Features | p. 21 |
| The DOS Version versus the Windows Version | p. 22 |
| System Requirements | p. 24 |
| Installation | p. 25 |
| Performance Enhancements | p. 28 |
| DataCAD Directory Tree | p. 29 |
| Configuration | p. 30 |
| Mice | p. 33 |
| Starting DataCAD | p. 33 |
| Windows Menu Options | p. 38 |
| Drawing File Options | p. 46 |
| Default Drawings | p. 50 |
| Starting with a Different Default Drawing | p. 54 |
| Chapter 3 Settings and Display Options | p. 59 |
| Settings | p. 60 |
| Grids | p. 72 |
| Display | p. 76 |
| Other Settings | p. 87 |
| Display List: What Is It and How Does It Work? | p. 88 |
| Chapter 4 Tutorial | p. 107 |
| Tutorial: The Apartment | p. 108 |
| Let's Start | p. 109 |
| Draw Marks | p. 112 |
| Refresh | p. 112 |
| Walls | p. 113 |
| Erasing | p. 117 |
| Undo and Redo | p. 120 |
| More Walls | p. 122 |
| Cleanup | p. 131 |
| Partial Erase | p. 137 |
| Cleaning Up L Intersections | p. 139 |
| Layers | p. 143 |
| Layer Colors | p. 147 |
| Adding Doors | p. 148 |
| Removing Doors | p. 149 |
| Identify | p. 151 |
| More Doors | p. 152 |
| Adding Windows | p. 156 |
| Isometric View | p. 161 |
| Counters and Closets | p. 164 |
| Linetypes | p. 167 |
| Offsetting Lines | p. 172 |
| Symbols | p. 175 |
| Hatching | p. 187 |
| Text | p. 193 |
| Mirror | p. 196 |
| Weld | p. 198 |
| Add a Roof | p. 200 |
| Chapter 5 Basic Drawing | p. 207 |
| Drawing Lines | p. 208 |
| Drawing Arcs and Circles | p. 221 |
| More on Polylines | p. 237 |
| FreeHand | p. 239 |
| Simple and Complex Linetypes | p. 240 |
| Z-Heights and 21/2 D | p. 255 |
| Undo and Redo | p. 257 |
| Reference Point | p. 261 |
| Viewing Options | p. 263 |
| Online Calculator | p. 268 |
| Drawing Walls | p. 271 |
| Everything in Real Scale | p. 272 |
| Multiple Drawing Technique | p. 273 |
| External File Referencing (XREF) | p. 277 |
| Selection Methods | p. 277 |
| LyrSrch (Layer Search) | p. 279 |
| Text and Fonts | p. 281 |
| Text Scale | p. 292 |
| Editing Text | p. 295 |
| Keyboard Shortcuts | p. 301 |
| Con Toolbars | p. 304 |
| Boundary | p. 314 |
| Identify | p. 330 |
| Measures | p. 332 |
| Using Toolbox Macros | p. 341 |
| Chapter 6 Organizational Concepts | p. 345 |
| Drawing File Names | p. 346 |
| File Locations | p. 348 |
| Default Files | p. 350 |
| Layer Concepts | p. 351 |
| Chapter 7 Printing and Plotting | p. 363 |
| What Is a Printer Driver? | p. 365 |
| Why Should I Care about Printer Drivers? | p. 365 |
| Configuring Your Plotter | p. 366 |
| Settings Saved with the Drawing | p. 366 |
| Printer/Plotter Settings | p. 367 |
| Line Weights and the PenTable | p. 370 |
| Rint Settings | p. 374 |
| Printing with OwkLyout | p. 378 |
| Printing with MitLyout | p. 384 |
| Plot Preview | p. 386 |
| Adobe Acrobat File Format (.PDF) | p. 388 |
| Check Plots | p. 389 |
| Saving to a File | p. 393 |
| Batch Plotting | p. 396 |
| How to Print Saved Drawings | p. 408 |
| Troubleshooting Tips | p. 411 |
| Chapter 8 Moving Things Around | p. 419 |
| EGAFS | p. 420 |
| Input Mode | p. 420 |
| Move | p. 420 |
| Copy | p. 424 |
| Cut/Copy/Paste | p. 433 |
| Mirror | p. 441 |
| Change/Z Heights | p. 444 |
| Geometry | p. 446 |
| Rotate | p. 451 |
| Stretch | p. 453 |
| Stretch Point Macro | p. 455 |
| Exporting Bitmaps | p. 456 |
| Importing Bitmaps | p. 458 |
| Sticky Back Macro | p. 460 |
| Chapter 9 Editing | p. 461 |
| Undo/Redo | p. 462 |
| Enlarge | p. 462 |
| Erase | p. 466 |
| Cleanup | p. 468 |
| Change | p. 489 |
| Layer Locking | p. 494 |
| Editing Multiple Entities | p. 495 |
| Linking Entities | p. 495 |
| Selection Sets | p. 498 |
| Cliplt Macro | p. 510 |
| Chapter 10 Creating Efficiency and Order | p. 517 |
| 3D GotoViews | p. 518 |
| HyprView (Hyper View) | p. 521 |
| Multi-View Windows | p. 525 |
| Multiple .DCX Directories | p. 525 |
| Interface Customization | p. 526 |
| Chapter 11 Basic Construction Drawings | p. 527 |
| How Many DC5 Files? | p. 528 |
| Sheet and Title Block Layout | p. 531 |
| Layering for Success | p. 536 |
| Walls | p. 538 |
| Curved Walls | p. 556 |
| Wall Attributes | p. 558 |
| Multi-Line Walls | p. 561 |
| Wall Styles: Saving and Loading | p. 563 |
| Walls That Are Not Walls | p. 569 |
| Cut Wall | p. 569 |
| Doors | p. 572 |
| Windows | p. 584 |
| Elevations | p. 595 |
| Reflected Ceiling Plans | p. 604 |
| Text and Notes | p. 608 |
| Importing Text | p. 608 |
| Importing Tables | p. 611 |
| Exporting Text | p. 614 |
| Dimensions | p. 615 |
| Linear Dimensions | p. 616 |
| Angular Dimensions | p. 635 |
| ArroStyl | p. 637 |
| Working with Rotated Plans | p. 637 |
| Site Plans | p. 641 |
| Toolbox Macros | p. 641 |
| Door and Window Labels | p. 642 |
| Chapter 12 Advanced Construction Drawings | p. 645 |
| Multi-Scale Plotting (MSP) | p. 646 |
| Part I Basic MSP Concepts | p. 647 |
| Part II Advanced Multi-Scale Plotting Concepts | p. 667 |
| Part III Printing and Plotting | p. 689 |
| Part IV How to Stay out of Trouble | p. 691 |
| Chapter 13 External Reference Files (XREFs) | p. 695 |
| XREF Example | p. 697 |
| Insert a Reference File | p. 702 |
| Manage Reference Files | p. 706 |
| Orphans | p. 709 |
| XREFs, GTVs, and MSP Details | p. 711 |
| Manipulating Reference Files | p. 712 |
| Transferring Reference Files | p. 714 |
| XREFs and AutoCAD Drawing Files | p. 716 |
| Chapter 14 Templates and Symbols | p. 717 |
| What Is a Symbol? | p. 718 |
| Templates versus Symbols | p. 719 |
| Placing Symbols | p. 722 |
| The SymExp (Symbol Explode) Macro | p. 735 |
| Nested Symbols | p. 736 |
| Symbol Instancing | p. 737 |
| Relative and Absolute Paths | p. 738 |
| Locations of /TPL and /SYM Directories | p. 743 |
| CSI Format or Not? | p. 744 |
| Creating Templates and Symbols | p. 748 |
| Building Details with Symbols | p. 760 |
| Symbol Reports | p. 762 |
| Symbol Shortcomings | p. 771 |
| Troubleshooting | p. 773 |
| Chapter 15 3D Basics | p. 775 |
| Introduction | p. 776 |
| Overview | p. 777 |
| 3D Viewing | p. 780 |
| GL Shader | p. 795 |
| Chapter 16 3D Modeling | p. 801 |
| Introduction to the Geometric Primitives | p. 802 |
| Creating Specialized Shapes Using the Primitives | p. 812 |
| Dropping a Polygon Mesh | p. 817 |
| Concept 4: Creating Voids | p. 820 |
| Concept 4: Creating Voids | p. 821 |
| Concept 4: Creating Voids | p. 822 |
| Concept 5: The Right Hand Rule | p. 825 |
| Concept 6: Curves Don't Exist in 3D | p. 828 |
| Concept 7: The Clip Cube | p. 831 |
| Chapter 17 3D Modeling Methods | p. 837 |
| The 2D Base Plan | p. 838 |
| The 3D Model | p. 839 |
| Chapter 18 3D Toolbox Macros | p. 855 |
| AEC Modeler | p. 857 |
| 3D Stairs | p. 875 |
| 3D Tools | p. 895 |
| Touchup | p. 909 |
| Chapter 19 Advanced Modeling Workshop | p. 917 |
| Exercise 1--Complex Roof | p. 918 |
| Exercise 2--Pendentive Dome | p. 945 |
| Exercise 3--The Classic Sweep: A Stair Handrail | p. 965 |
| Exercise 3--The Classic Sweep: A Stair Handrail | p. 966 |
| Knife cuts and mitres | p. 971 |
| Variations | p. 974 |
| Exercise 4--Land Forms: Four Methods | p. 975 |
| Exercise 5--Ornate Wrought Iron Railing | p. 991 |
| Exercise 6--Corinthian Column | p. 1000 |
| Exercise 7--Arched Colonnade | p. 1009 |
| Exercise 8--Porte-cochere: RevSurf 3 | p. 1019 |
| Chapter 20 3D Rendering | p. 1033 |
| Advanced 3D Workshop 10: Notes on Rendering | p. 1034 |
| Chapter 21 Techno-Files | p. 1041 |
| File Recovery | p. 1042 |
| The Semaphore (.$$$) File | p. 1042 |
| Understanding CAD Files | p. 1047 |
| Understanding CAD Files | p. 1048 |
| Program Bugs | p. 1054 |
| Speeding Up DataCAD | p. 1056 |
| Of Mice and ... Well, Mice | p. 1057 |
| DataCAD Applications Language (DCAL) Programming | p. 1061 |
| Compiling Macros | p. 1062 |
| Basics | p. 1069 |
| Program Layout | p. 1072 |
| Sample Macros | p. 1074 |
| DCAL Resources | p. 1075 |
| Chapter 22 Frequently Asked Questions | p. 1077 |
| A. How Do I Draw Things? | p. 1078 |
| B. How Do I Edit and Move Things? | p. 1080 |
| C. Dimensions | p. 1081 |
| D. Customizing Things | p. 1081 |
| E. Printing and Plotting | p. 1082 |
| F: Hatching and Linetypes | p. 1084 |
| G: Text and Fonts | p. 1085 |
| H. Toolbox Macros and Add-Ons | p. 1086 |
| J. Multi-Scale Plotting (MSP) and Clip Cubes (CCs) | p. 1086 |
| K. Templates and Symbols | p. 1086 |
| L. Importing and Exporting DWG and DXF Files | p. 1087 |
| M. Techno Files | p. 1088 |
| N. Miscellaneous Stuff | p. 1089 |
| P. When Things Don't Act Like They Should | p. 1092 |
| Q: External Reference Files (XREFs) | p. 1094 |
| R: 3-Dimensional Questions | p. 1095 |
| Chapter 23 Customizing DataCAD | p. 1097 |
| Customizing the Graphical User Interface (GUI) | p. 1098 |
| Macros Drop-Down Menu | p. 1106 |
| Customizing DataCAD with the DCADWIN.INI File | p. 1107 |
| Color Adjustments | p. 1116 |
| The INI-OUTI Editor | p. 1119 |
| Keyboard Shortcuts | p. 1123 |
| Action Codes | p. 1125 |
| Customizing the CTRL Key Shortcuts | p. 1133 |
| Custom Icon Toolbars | p. 1136 |
| Action String Codes | p. 1143 |
| Internal Function Codes | p. 1145 |
| .KEY File Examples | p. 1148 |
| Graphic Toolbar Icons | p. 1151 |
| Custom Linetypes | p. 1153 |
| Custom Hatches | p. 1167 |
| Custom Scales, Angles, and Distances | p. 1186 |
| Converting AutoCAD Fonts to DataCAD | p. 1190 |
| Creating Custom Fonts | p. 1193 |
| The Productivity Pack | p. 1199 |
| Chapter 24 Third-Party Macros | p. 1205 |
| Free Macros from DataCAD LLC | p. 1206 |
| Third-Party Macros | p. 1214 |
| Macro Tabouret | p. 1217 |
| Chapter 25 Converting File Formats | p. 1223 |
| Living in an AutoCAD World | p. 1224 |
| Exporting DataCAD Drawings to the AutoCAD Format | p. 1225 |
| Importing AutoCAD Drawings into DataCAD | p. 1233 |
| Import and Export .DXF Drawing Files | p. 1238 |
| Exporting a DataCAD Drawing to .DXF | p. 1239 |
| Importing a .DXF File to DataCAD | p. 1241 |
| DXF/DWG Options | p. 1242 |
| Recreating MSP Layouts in AutoCAD | p. 1246 |
| Chapter 26 Networking | p. 1251 |
| Networking Concepts | p. 1252 |
| Hardware | p. 1252 |
| Networking in Windows | p. 1253 |
| Sharing | p. 1255 |
| Mapping | p. 1256 |
| Mapping Drives on a Workstation Server | p. 1259 |
| Printers/Plotters on the Network | p. 1260 |
| Chapter 27 DataCAD Resources | p. 1267 |
| Web Pages and Third-Party Support | p. 1268 |
| Three More Web Pages | p. 1274 |
| DataCAD Applications Language (DCAL) | p. 1277 |
| Appendix | p. 1279 |
| Linetypes | p. 1279 |
| Hatches | p. 1280 |
| Fonts | p. 1285 |
| Extended Character Codes | p. 1286 |
| Favorite Keyboard Macros | p. 1288 |
| DWG/DXF Translation Files | p. 1290 |
| Index | p. 1295 |
| What's On the CD-ROM? | p. 1323 |
