Accucadd Reference Manual

Accucadd Reference Manual
The Accucadd Reference Manual is organized into 20 chapters. Chapters 1 through 3 are a general introduction to Accucadd, how it works, and how you use it.
Chapters 4 through 14 describe each of the 11 main menus in detail, listing each menu item individually, and explaining what it does, and how it is controlled.

Appendixes A through G contain additional information, a lot of it technical, information (or to understand it) in order to use Accucadd successfully. However, if you are a Network Administrator, a programmer writing applications to work with Accucadd, or a person planning to organize a large library of drawings, then you should find everything you need here.

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Section	Title	Contains	Size (KB)
P	Preface	Information about the manual itself, Robo Systems, legal and warranty notices, and such like.	33
1	Introduction	The purpose and benefits of Accucadd, the equipment (hardware and software) needed, and set up instructions.	49
2	Operation and Orientation	The concepts involved in using CAD in general, and Accucadd in particular. A description of the menus, toolbars, palettes, and other means of interacting with the program. The various ways of entering information, saving drawings, and retrieving them.	170
3	Summary	The documentation conventions used in the manual, the keyboard "hot key" shortcuts, and the keyboard equivalent of every menu item. A short description of every menu, each entry in that menu, and what it does.	62
4	File	New Page, Open... , Save... , Close Page, Backup, Print, Viewprint, Print Setup... , and Exit.	110
5	Clipboard	Metafile and Drawing Data.	59
6	Set Up	Paper Size, Scale, Units, Precision, Layer Table, Snaps, Paper and Cursor Colors, Calibrating a Digitizer, and Borders.	140
7	Draw	Keyboard Input, Elements (various straight lines, arcs, circles, points and the nib), Line weight (thickness) and Style (continuous, chain, "dash-dot"), Insert (using a drawing as a symbol), Hatch, Curve, Text and Fonts, Tan Circle, Fillet, Chamfer, Parallel, Balloon (call out), Copy, and Stretch Copy.	339
8	Edit	How to select parts of items, whole items, and groups of items. How to cut items. How to draw a fence or set a path for selection. Undo and Redo, Erase, Change, Move, Stretch Move, Cleanup (Break/Extend), Erase Points (Handles), Text, Layer, Isolate, Explode (greatly expanded functionality in Accucadd), Implode, Add Snap, Wipe, and Sort.	164
9	View	Magnify and reduce (Zoom and Shrink) your view; return to base (full drawing) view. Save and Load views. Control screen updating.	46
10	Library	Saving and Opening (Filling and Loading) drawings. Copying and Deleting Library Index Pages.	116
11	Toolkit	Points, Angle Trap, Snap Grid (Cartesian or X-Y), Radial Grid (Polar or r-Ø), Orthogonal Trap, Normal-Tangent Trap, Arc Direction, Line Direction, Tangent Construction, Find Layer (List Drawing Data).	75
12	Dimension	How to set up dimensioning, and how to use it to dimension just about anything automatically. Covers Setup, Edit, Line, Radius, Diameter, Angle, Arrow, and Area (and Perimeter).	148
13	Window
14	Help
A	Appendix A	Glossary of Technical Terms	43
B	Appendix B	Installation	36
C	Appendix C	Configuration: Saving and preserving your Accucadd working environment.	40
D	Appendix D: Library Management	This information is critical to getting the best results from the Accucadd Library System in large organizations. Concepts, structure, and operational aspects of the library. Converting a library. Index numbering techniques. Moving and Copying drawings between indexes and between libraries. Backing up drawings, indexes, and libraries. What each library function actually does and how it does it.	90
E	Appendix E: RDF Files	The purpose and usage of RDF (Robo Data Format) files.	14
F	Appendix F: Drawing Translation	Converting drawings to and from HPGL and DXF
G	Appendix G: Errors	Explanations of error messages, error numbers, and suggested action to take.	139