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Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Practical 3D Drafting and Design

You're reading from Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Practical 3D Drafting and Design Take your AuotoCAD design skills to the next dimension by creating powerful 3D models.

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849699358

Length 374 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AutoCAD

Concepts

Graphics Programming

Author (1):

JOAO ANTONIO C DOS SANTOS

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Practical 3D Drafting and Design

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Introduction to 3D Design FREE CHAPTER

2. Visualizing 3D Models

3. Coordinate Systems

4. Creating Solids and Surfaces from 2D

5. 3D Primitives and Conversions

6. Editing in 3D

7. Editing Solids and Surfaces

8. Inquiring the 3D model

9. Documenting a 3D Model

10. Rendering and Illumination

11. Materials and Effects

12. Meshes and Surfaces

Final Considerations

Advanced concepts and clues for development

Index

Appendix A. Final Considerations

In this appendix, we include creating simple animations representing walkthroughs or see-around import and export file formats, advices for exporting from AutoCAD to 3ds Max and Revit, and development clues for 3D modelers.

The topics covered in this appendix are:

How to create simple animations
Preparing a model to export to other applications
How to develop in 3D

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Authors (1)

JOAO ANTONIO C DOS SANTOS

JOAO ANTONIO C DOS SANTOS

João Santos is the manager and main instructor at QualiCAD (www.qualicad.com), one of the most important Portuguese ATCs (Autodesk Authorized Training Center), based in Lisbon. With a degree in Mechanical Engineering, he has been teaching AutoCAD for more than 25 years and, most recently teaching several AutoCAD clones such as DraftSight, ZW CAD, ProgeCAD, BitCAD. He is an AutoCAD 2013 and 3ds Max 2013 Certified professional user and instructor, being also the Portuguese instructor in these technologies with more students. João is the author and co-author of more than 40 Portuguese AutoCAD and 3ds Max books. He is also the author of Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Practical 3D Drafting and Design, Packt Publishing.

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