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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In this lesson, you'll begin using true 3-D commands. First you will create a 2-D region and then extrude it into a 3-D solid. Then you will add 3-D surfaces to the tops of your previous drawing (line thickness) to close the back, sides and seat.


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Another great video tutorial on AutoCAD 3D where we learn the Convert to Surface tool.


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This 5 minute video tutorial explains the AutoCAD 2007 3D Thicken Surface tool.


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AutoCAD Breaklines Tutorial


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The new Mesh Modeler, is based on subdivision surfaces, and allows a very intuitive creation of 3D objects that would be very difficult to model with NURBS, polygons, or solid modeling alone.


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