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Practical Autodesk AutoCAD 2023 and AutoCAD LT 2023

You're reading from   Practical Autodesk AutoCAD 2023 and AutoCAD LT 2023 A beginner's guide to 2D drafting and 3D modeling with Autodesk AutoCAD

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801816465
Length 674 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Yasser Shoukry Yasser Shoukry
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Jaiprakash Pandey Jaiprakash Pandey
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction and 2D Drafting
2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to AutoCAD FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Basic Drawing Tools and Commands 4. Chapter 3: Learning about Modify Commands 5. Chapter 4: Working with Arrays and Reusable Objects 6. Part 2: Customization, Collaboration, and Using Reusable Content
7. Chapter 5: Managing Drawings with Layers and Properties 8. Chapter 6: Working with Hatches, Text, and Dimensions 9. Chapter 7: Tables and Isometric Drawings 10. Chapter 8: Customization Tools 11. Chapter 9: External References and Dynamic Blocks 12. Part 3: 3D Modeling
13. Chapter 10: Introduction to 3D Modeling 14. Chapter 11: Creating Primitive 3D Shapes 15. Chapter 12: Conversion between 2D and 3D 16. Chapter 13: Modifying 3D Objects 17. Chapter 14: Paper Space Layouts and Printing 18. Chapter 15: Rendering and Presentation 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

The Revision Cloud tool

Revision Cloud is a markup tool that is not generally used to make things in AutoCAD; rather, it is used to show areas in a drawing that are subjected to further inspection or to draw attention to some parts of the drawing.

The Revision Cloud tool is also in the expanded Draw panel in the Home tab, as shown:

Figure 3.30: The revision cloud options in the expanded Draw panel

As you can see, there are three different ways of making a revision cloud in AutoCAD: Rectangular, Polygonal, and Freehand.

The Rectangular Revision Cloud tool

The Rectangular Revision Cloud tool will make a revision cloud in the shape of a rectangle. In the following example, we will learn how to make this type of Revision Cloud in our drawing:

  1. Select the Rectangular tool from the Revision Cloud flyout or use its command, REVCLOUD.
  2. Now, the command line will prompt you to specify the first point of the revision cloud. Click on the point from...
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