You may have already found out why CAD has many advantages over manual drafting. One big advantage is that once you've drawn something, you shouldn't have to draw it again. If you manually drew a house plan, you would have to draw a front elevation, side elevations, and possibly a perspective view. With one 3-D CAD model, you can generate views from any angle either inside or outside the house. Afterwords, if your client needs something changed, you can then make the changes once. If you're drawing mechanical parts, you can generate virtual prototypes or even create rapid prototypes.


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A primitive solid is a ‘building block' that you can use to work with in 3D. Rather than extruding or revolving an object, AutoCAD has some basic 3D shape commands at your disposal. From these basic primitives, you can start building your 3D models. In many cases, you get the same result from drawing circles and rectangles and then extruding them, but doing it one command is generally faster. Using these with Boolean operations can be a very effective way of drawing in 3D.


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In this AutoCAD video tutorial we learn how to sweep a 2d profile along a 3D solid edge.


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This sweet little video tutorial will show you how the cool AutoCAD 2007 3D Convert to Solid tool works.


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Today we will demonstrate the chamfer command on solids and holes. From the AutoCAD 2010 Tutorial Series by CADLearning.


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Adding a Chamfer to the edge of a Solid - AutoCad 2010 video tutorial.


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