AutoCAD® 2015 for Interior Design and Space Planning

Chapter 14. Solid Modeling

Chapter Objectives

• Use the 3D workspace to create solids.

• Draw the following primitive solids: box, sphere, wedge, cone, cylinder, torus, pyramid, helix, polysolid, and planar surface.

• Make settings to display solids smoothly.

• Use SteeringWheels and ViewCube to change views of a model.

• Draw extruded solids.

• Draw revolved solids.

• Rotate solids about the X-, Y-, or Z-axis.

• Form chamfers and fillets on solid edges. Join two or more solids.

• Subtract one or more solids from another solid.

• Use the SOLIDEDIT command to change existing solids.

• Form a solid model from the common volume of two intersecting solids.

• Obtain perspective views of complex solid models.

• Use Orbit and RENDER to render solids ...