This contribution presents the main results of a work developed through AutoCAD to draw details of Unit Operations Equipments for Chemical Industries. This work is part of an engineering education branch (REENGE) of a Brazilian Program for Engineering Development (PRODENGE). The main purpose of this work is to incentive the students application of AutoCAD at Chemical Engineering College of Campinas State University (UNICAMP). In order to accomplish this some 3-D sketches of mixers and filters were drew thrpough AutoCAD. This sketches provide a way to examine small equipment details as well as to see a full equipment, allow rotate the objects to obtain upper and side views through many simultaneous windows.
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Isometric drawing is essential to the engineering filed. Through the isometric drawing, it is easier to imagine how a part or a drawing would look like. Some isometric drawing has no details such as dimension and annotation. This type of isometric drawing is usually accompanied by orthographic drawings with complete detail and annotation.
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In this first tutorial you will learn how to start AutoCAD, save a drawing, and a range of common drawing commands.
Start AutoCAD by clicking on the Windows Start button (bottom left), then move the mouse to Programs then CAD and Modelling then “AutoCAD Architectural Desktop 2″ and click on AutoCAD Architectural Desktop 2. A dialog giving various startup options will be displayed. Select the second option: “Start from Scratch” and click OK.
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Graphical objects, also known as entities, are the visible objects (lines, circles, raster images, and so forth) that make up a drawing. Each graphical object has methods that allow an application to perform most of the AutoCAD editing commands, such as Copy, Erase, Move, Mirror, and so forth. These objects also have methods for setting and retrieving extended data (xdata), highlighting and updating, and retrieving the bounding box of the object. Graphical objects have typical properties such as Layer, Linetype, Color, and Handle. They also have specific properties, depending on their object type, such as, Center, Radius, and Area.
—ActiveX Automation User’s Guide, AutoCAD help file
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The Map Book function has been a Part of Map 3D since the early days of ADE. In the last several releases the functionality has become very robust and a whole lot easier to use due to the Sheet Set Manager and a Wizard. That being said, there is one piece of the Map Books that can cause you to go nuts (and many folks it seems just give up)… setting a % Overlap value and still getting a scaled map book. The key to solving this dilemma is in the Map Book template (.dwt). The following is a discussion of and tutorial on how to properly set up a map book template to produce a properly scaled Map Book set (and stop ramming your head against your desk).
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Workspaces
AutoCAD workspaces are sets of menus, toolbars and dockable windows (such as the Properties palette, DesignCenter, and the Tool palettes window) that are grouped and organized so that you can work in a custom, task-oriented drawing environment.

3D Dashboard
The dashboard consists of a set of control panels organized by function. For example, the top control panel contains commands that create and modify 3D solids; the second control panel contains commands and controls used to navigate 3D models.
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Are you an AutoCAD user? Have you tried converting all the orthographic drawings in your CAD department into 3D Part models using Autodesk Inventor®? If no, then this tutorial is for you and a must for every CAD engineer. With a new tool released from Autodesk Labs, 2D to 3D Tool for Autodesk Inventor, life is much more interesting for every CAD professional.
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Object data allows you to create a simple database in a map and store text and numeric data in your maps directly attached to any object. It is far more powerful than block attributes because object data works with any object, not just blocks. Use object data tables to save any kind of information, run queries based on information in the tables and to create thematic maps. Object data can associate an object with documents from other applications. However, Autodesk Map works with object data created only in Autodesk Map and does not recognize object data from other applications, including AutoCAD®.
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