Getting Started with DraftSight -- Table of Contents -- Getting Started with DraftSight -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code and graphics -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Introduction to DraftSight -- Downloading and starting DraftSight -- Understanding the user interface -- Configuring DraftSight -- Starting and setting up a drawing -- Starting a drawing -- Setting up a drawing -- Opening, saving, and closing drawings -- Summary -- 2. Drawing with Precision -- Defining coordinates -- Absolute coordinates -- Relative Cartesian coordinates -- Relative polar coordinates -- Drawing lines and deleting -- Drawing lines -- Selecting and deleting -- Graphical auxiliary tools -- Ortho and Polar -- Entity snaps -- Entity snap tracking -- Snap and Grid -- Visualization tools -- Exercise 2.1 -- Summary -- 3. Starting to Create Projects -- Drawing circles and arcs -- Drawing rectangles and polygons -- Selecting entities -- Moving, copying, and reflecting -- Rotating and scaling -- Offsetting and stretching -- Trimming and extending -- Filleting and chamfering -- Exercise 3.1 -- Summary -- 4. Structuring Projects and Following Standards -- Creating and managing layers -- The layer list -- The LAYER command -- Filtering layers -- Applying colors, linestyles, and lineweights -- Applying colors -- Applying linestyles -- Applying lineweights -- Exercise 4.1 -- Summary -- 5. Inquiring Projects and Modifying Properties -- Measuring distances and angles -- Measuring areas -- Obtaining coordinates -- Verifying and modifying properties.

Exercise 5.1 -- Summary -- 6. Creating Complex Projects -- Creating text styles and applying text -- Creating polylines -- Creating multiple equally spaced copies -- Creating other entities -- Creating tables and table styles -- Joining, lengthening, and breaking the entities -- Exercise 6.1 -- Summary -- 7. Creating and Applying Components -- Creating components (blocks) -- Inserting components -- Exporting components -- Editing components -- Applying attributes -- Cleaning the drawing -- Exercise 7.1 -- Summary -- 8. Applying Fills and Patterns -- Applying patterns -- The Predefined and Custom types -- User-defined type -- Pattern origin -- Boundary definition -- Other options -- Applying gradients -- Editing fills and patterns -- Exercise 8.1 -- Summary -- 9. Documenting Projects -- Creating linear dimensions -- Creating angular dimensions -- Dimensioning arcs and circles -- Ordinate dimensions and leaders -- Editing dimensions -- Creating and managing dimension styles -- Exercise 9.1 -- Summary -- 10. Printing Efficiently -- Creating and managing sheets for printing -- Configuring sheets -- Creating and managing print styles -- Creating viewports -- Adjusting viewport visualization, scale, and layers -- Previewing and printing -- Exercise 10.1 -- Summary -- 11. Advanced Tools -- Referencing external drawings and images -- Managing and linking external drawings and images -- Clipping external drawings and images -- Advanced layer commands -- Exercise 11.1 -- Summary -- Index.