AutoCAD – A Handbook for Theatre Users: 3rd edition by David Ripley

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ISBN 13 :
9781904031741

Title:
AutoCAD – A Handbook for Theatre Users: 3rd edition

Author:
David Ripley

Publication date:
06/01/3014

Publisher:
Entertainment Technology Press

Price:
GBP29.95

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From ‘Setting Up’ to ‘Drawing in Three Dimensions’ via ‘Drawings Within Drawings’, this
compact and fully illustrated guide to AutoCAD covers everything from the basics to full
colour rendering and remote 3D plotting. Third, completely revised edition, June 2014.

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About the Author(s):
Since leaving LAMDA David Ripley has worked in most types of theatre in the UK as well as in most departments. He started in the West End on many of the early eighties least memorable shows. He then worked at the Hexagon in Reading before moving to Nottingham Playhouse. After a short time in the conference industry, he taught sound and lighting at the Guildford School of Acting before becoming technical and eventually production manager at The Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke. During this time, he lit over 30 shows at the Haymarket and on tour.
Since then he has worked, in some capacity, at all four of the UK’s Royal Drama Schools, (possibly a record) and taught at several other leading UK drama schools. In 2004, in conjunction with LeMark David was the winner of the ABTT widget of the Year.
David also provides CAD draughting and consultancy services to the industry as a whole. He is one of the co-compilers of the ABTT CAD Standards, which are held on the cad4theatre website and teaches on the ABTT Gold Award as well as providing their AutoCAD training courses.
David is head of the technical support department at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
He is married with three daughters.

Contents by chapter:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION; AutoCAD for Mac; Defining CAD; CAD – Standing for Computer Aided Draughting or Drawing; Computer Visualisation; System Requirements; An AutoCAD Case Study – Small Change

1 SETTING UP; Limits; Precision (Drawing Units); Options; Profiles; Display; Open & Save; User Preferences; Creating a basic Template

2 STARTING TO DRAW; Moving Around the Drawing Area; Erasing Objects; Drawing Accurately; Absolute Coordinates; Relative Coordinates; Polar Coordinates; Starting the Theatre Drawing; Object Snap; Ortho and Mirror; Copy; Offset; Join;
Extend; Undoing in AutoCAD

3 OBJECT PROPERTIES; Creating Layers; Layer Colours; Layer Linetypes; Layer LineWeight; LineType Scale; Transparency; Properties; Theatre Drawing 2; Arcs; Trim; Creating a Door; Rotate; The Mouse; Numeric Value Method; Reference Method;
Creating the door arc; Grips

4 FINISHING THE THEATRE’S STRUCTURE; Fly Floors; Polar Tracking; Circles; Ellipse and Ellipse Arc; Chamfer and Fillet.; Chamfer; Fillet; Polygon; Polylines; Splines; Snap and Grid; Donuts; Points; Array; Editing the Array

5 ADDING ANNOTATION TO YOUR DRAWING; Text; Text Styles; Annotative Text; Scale List; Multiline Text; Special Symbols; Editing Text; Importing Text; Dimensioning; Linear Dimensioning; Aligned Dimensioning; Radius; Diameter; Angular Dimensions; Baseline; Continue; Dimension Styles; Multileaders; Associative Dimensions; Scale; Stretch

6 DRAWINGS WITHIN DRAWINGS; Blocks; Inserting Blocks; Managing Attributes; Attribute Extraction; Editing Blocks; Dynamic Blocks; Look Ups; Visibility States; Hyperlinks; DesignCenter; Content Explorer; Autodesk Seek; Break; Wipeout; Group; Hatching

7 LINKING DRAWINGS AND INSERTING NON-DRAWING FILES; Revision Cloud; Making Changes in Xrefs; Inserting PDFs; Inserting Images; Linking to Other Files; Paste; Link; Embed; Exchanging linked drawings; eTransmit

8 DRAWING IN THREE DIMENSIONS; Workspaces; Drawing in the Z Axis; Extruding; Presspull; Modelling with Solids; Editing Solids; Union; Subtract; Intersect; Wedges; Editing Solids using Grips; Drawing at Height; Moving the UCS; 3D Views; Rendering; Lights; Hotspot and Falloff angles; Intensity; Sections and Flatshot; Making Movies

9 PLOTTING AND PUBLISHING DRAWINGS; Basic Plotting; Plotting to Scale; PaperSpace; Layouts; Plot Stamps; Freezing Layers in PS Viewports; Plotting Multiple Viewports; Creating PDFs; Controlling Colour in Plots; LineWeights; Annotation in PaperSpace; Lost In Space; DWF – Autodesk Design Review; 3D Printing

10 AUTOCAD ON THE MOVE; The Cloud within AutoCAD; Autodesk 360 within AutoCAD; AutoCAD 360 online; Autodesk 360 Website; More Online 360 Services; AutoCAD on Phones and Tablets

11 CUSTOMISING AUTOCAD; Workspace Switching; Quick Access Toolbar; CUI Customize User Interface; Customising The Ribbon; Apps; AutoLISP; Action Recorder

12 EXCHANGING DRAWINGS WITH OTHER PROGRAMS; DXF; Exporting Raster Files; Opening AutoCAD .dwgs in other programs; TurboCAD Professional 21; VectorWorks 2014; Bentley Microstation V8i; SketchUp 2014; WYSIWYG Release 32; AutoCAD Clones

EPILOGUE – AUTOCAD 2015

APPENDIX; AutoCAD Keyboard Shortcuts; Bibliography; Books; Web Resources; Software

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ETP Book ref:	1065
ISBN :
ISBN 13 :	9781904031741
Title:	AutoCAD – A Handbook for Theatre Users: 3rd edition
Author:	David Ripley
Publication date:	06/01/3014
Publisher:	Entertainment Technology Press
Price:	GBP29.95
Ebook version:
Readership:
Description:	From ‘Setting Up’ to ‘Drawing in Three Dimensions’ via ‘Drawings Within Drawings’, this compact and fully illustrated guide to AutoCAD covers everything from the basics to full colour rendering and remote 3D plotting. Third, completely revised edition, June 2014.
Reader Services:	Dynamic Block.dwg Lamp.dwg Lanterns.dwg logo.tif Seating Library.dwg ShowLX.dwg ShowMaster.dwg ShowSet.dwg Source 4.dwg Studio Theatre.dwg Working Drawing.dwg
About the Author(s):	Since leaving LAMDA David Ripley has worked in most types of theatre in the UK as well as in most departments. He started in the West End on many of the early eighties least memorable shows. He then worked at the Hexagon in Reading before moving to Nottingham Playhouse. After a short time in the conference industry, he taught sound and lighting at the Guildford School of Acting before becoming technical and eventually production manager at The Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke. During this time, he lit over 30 shows at the Haymarket and on tour. Since then he has worked, in some capacity, at all four of the UK’s Royal Drama Schools, (possibly a record) and taught at several other leading UK drama schools. In 2004, in conjunction with LeMark David was the winner of the ABTT widget of the Year. David also provides CAD draughting and consultancy services to the industry as a whole. He is one of the co-compilers of the ABTT CAD Standards, which are held on the cad4theatre website and teaches on the ABTT Gold Award as well as providing their AutoCAD training courses. David is head of the technical support department at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. He is married with three daughters.

Contents by chapter:	ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION; AutoCAD for Mac; Defining CAD; CAD – Standing for Computer Aided Draughting or Drawing; Computer Visualisation; System Requirements; An AutoCAD Case Study – Small Change 1 SETTING UP; Limits; Precision (Drawing Units); Options; Profiles; Display; Open & Save; User Preferences; Creating a basic Template 2 STARTING TO DRAW; Moving Around the Drawing Area; Erasing Objects; Drawing Accurately; Absolute Coordinates; Relative Coordinates; Polar Coordinates; Starting the Theatre Drawing; Object Snap; Ortho and Mirror; Copy; Offset; Join; Extend; Undoing in AutoCAD 3 OBJECT PROPERTIES; Creating Layers; Layer Colours; Layer Linetypes; Layer LineWeight; LineType Scale; Transparency; Properties; Theatre Drawing 2; Arcs; Trim; Creating a Door; Rotate; The Mouse; Numeric Value Method; Reference Method; Creating the door arc; Grips 4 FINISHING THE THEATRE’S STRUCTURE; Fly Floors; Polar Tracking; Circles; Ellipse and Ellipse Arc; Chamfer and Fillet.; Chamfer; Fillet; Polygon; Polylines; Splines; Snap and Grid; Donuts; Points; Array; Editing the Array 5 ADDING ANNOTATION TO YOUR DRAWING; Text; Text Styles; Annotative Text; Scale List; Multiline Text; Special Symbols; Editing Text; Importing Text; Dimensioning; Linear Dimensioning; Aligned Dimensioning; Radius; Diameter; Angular Dimensions; Baseline; Continue; Dimension Styles; Multileaders; Associative Dimensions; Scale; Stretch 6 DRAWINGS WITHIN DRAWINGS; Blocks; Inserting Blocks; Managing Attributes; Attribute Extraction; Editing Blocks; Dynamic Blocks; Look Ups; Visibility States; Hyperlinks; DesignCenter; Content Explorer; Autodesk Seek; Break; Wipeout; Group; Hatching 7 LINKING DRAWINGS AND INSERTING NON-DRAWING FILES; Revision Cloud; Making Changes in Xrefs; Inserting PDFs; Inserting Images; Linking to Other Files; Paste; Link; Embed; Exchanging linked drawings; eTransmit 8 DRAWING IN THREE DIMENSIONS; Workspaces; Drawing in the Z Axis; Extruding; Presspull; Modelling with Solids; Editing Solids; Union; Subtract; Intersect; Wedges; Editing Solids using Grips; Drawing at Height; Moving the UCS; 3D Views; Rendering; Lights; Hotspot and Falloff angles; Intensity; Sections and Flatshot; Making Movies 9 PLOTTING AND PUBLISHING DRAWINGS; Basic Plotting; Plotting to Scale; PaperSpace; Layouts; Plot Stamps; Freezing Layers in PS Viewports; Plotting Multiple Viewports; Creating PDFs; Controlling Colour in Plots; LineWeights; Annotation in PaperSpace; Lost In Space; DWF – Autodesk Design Review; 3D Printing 10 AUTOCAD ON THE MOVE; The Cloud within AutoCAD; Autodesk 360 within AutoCAD; AutoCAD 360 online; Autodesk 360 Website; More Online 360 Services; AutoCAD on Phones and Tablets 11 CUSTOMISING AUTOCAD; Workspace Switching; Quick Access Toolbar; CUI Customize User Interface; Customising The Ribbon; Apps; AutoLISP; Action Recorder 12 EXCHANGING DRAWINGS WITH OTHER PROGRAMS; DXF; Exporting Raster Files; Opening AutoCAD .dwgs in other programs; TurboCAD Professional 21; VectorWorks 2014; Bentley Microstation V8i; SketchUp 2014; WYSIWYG Release 32; AutoCAD Clones EPILOGUE – AUTOCAD 2015 APPENDIX; AutoCAD Keyboard Shortcuts; Bibliography; Books; Web Resources; Software
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