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Practical Autodesk AutoCAD 2021 and AutoCAD LT 2021

You're reading from   Practical Autodesk AutoCAD 2021 and AutoCAD LT 2021 A no-nonsense, beginner's guide to drafting and 3D modeling with Autodesk AutoCAD

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789809152
Length 826 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Yasser Shoukry Yasser Shoukry
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Yasser Shoukry
Jaiprakash Pandey Jaiprakash Pandey
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. An Introduction to AutoCAD 2. Basic Drawing Tools FREE CHAPTER 3. Learning about Modify Commands 4. Working with Arrays and Reusable Objects 5. Managing Drawings with Layers and Properties 6. Working with Hatches, Text, and Dimensions 7. Tables, Isometric, and Parametric Drawings 8. Customization Tools 9. External References and Dynamic Blocks 10. Introduction to 3D Modeling 11. Creating Primitive 3D Shapes 12. Conversion between 2D and 3D 13. Modifying 3D Objects 14. Surfaces and Mesh Modeling 15. Paper Space Layouts and Printing 16. Rendering and Presentation

Working with External Referencess

When working on a large project, it becomes almost impossible to use only a single drawing for everything. As an example, if you are working on the plans for a large building, you can assign different team members working on the project to different parts of the drawing. A team member can work on the main plan, someone else can work on exteriors, another can work on electrical plans, and another person can work on heat and ventilation drawings. All these drawings can then be clubbed together into a single file using XRefs.

Using this method, you can have multiple people work on a single project seamlessly. Another advantage of using XRefs is that the people working on a project can focus just on their drawing and the drawing progress can be shared in real time.

In the following examples, we will learn everything about making and managing XRefs...

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