Autodesk AutoCAD 2010: Basic 2D Concepts Tutorials
Publishing Your Drawing / DWG TrueView 2010
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Autodesk DWG TrueView 2010 is a fantastic product, and considering it's free as well on the Autodesk Web Site, if you go www.autodesk.com backslash dwg, you are able to download TrueView free of charge. Basically what TrueView is, is a cutdown version of AutoCAD itself. It allows you to view DWG files, hence the TrueView name. You're looking at a true DWG but you cannot edit it. It's like a viewing tool that allows you to manipulate the drawing, but you cannot edit the content. Let's have a look at that. If I go here, look, you'll notice I've actually got an Application Menu just like in AutoCAD, albeit that the menus are rather cut down as you can see. And I've also got a Quick Access Toolbar here as well. I'm going to click on Open and it opens an existing DWG, so I'm going to open up this one here, which is actually the wrap up drawing from the end of this Course, but what I'm going to do here is, because it's a completed drawing, it gives me everything I need to see in an AutoCAD DWG file. But look, it looks exactly the same as AutoCAD 2010. You've got the Ribbon, you've got the Panels, like so. Notice though you've only got the one tab, purely the Home tab. Now, one thing I really like, 2010 functionality, you've got Sticky Panels, like so. So I can hover over this now, I can return that back, or I can change the orientation, like so. If I click there it returns it back to the Ribbon. Isn't that great? Exactly the same functionality. So, people that are trained in AutoCAD 2010 can use TrueView as well. It's a fantastic tool, it really is, and you can see there that we can Output, we can Plot, we can Preview. So if I Preview that now it'll go straight into a Preview Page and as you can see there, there's my Preview. So it's using the Current Page Setup to give me a preview of that DWG file before I plot it. I can right-click and Exit just like I can in AutoCAD 2010. I can work with Pan, I can pan around the drawing, like so. I can right-click and Exit Pan, just like I can in AutoCAD 2010. I can go into the Model tab here, you'll notice, like so. There's my Model tab. I can toggle back into the Landscape tab. What I really like in the Model tab though is I can use things like the Measure Tool, so I can click here now and I can measure a Distance, so I measure from say that Endpoint Snap to that Endpoint Snap. And I can see that my corridor is 1500 wide. What I love about that is I've got Object Snaps as well. So I can work with this drawing and measure and look at information on the drawing, but I can't physically edit it in any way, shape, or form. So, you've got a free piece of software here that you can roll out within your company your project that allows people to view your drawings, comment on your drawings using Autodesk Design Review, but here you can just get them to open up a DWG file and look at it, and maybe say, OK. I need to know what that distance is there so that I can place some furniture in that office. They don't have to be AutoCAD users, either. You can train them very easily on this one tab, this one Home tab, and get them using TrueView to actually measure distances like I've just shown you. They might want to measure an Area, so I can do that as well. I select Area, if I go from that corner there down to Ð let's just zoom in a little bit, you'll notice the wheel mouse works as well, like so Ð and I can measure an area like that, for example, if I want to. There's my area there, so I right-click, press Enter, and there's my area. So I measure half of that office for example. I could go back to Area again now and maybe measure the whole area. So you can see the tools are exactly the same. So the good thing is there's familiarity there, but also ease of use for any new users that don't want to use AutoCAD but they want to check DWG files.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Autodesk AutoCAD 2010: Basic 2D Concepts |
| Author: | Shaun Bryant |
| SKU: | 34013 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-56-4 |
| Release Date: | 2009-07-03 |
| Duration: | 7.5 hrs / 107 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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