by Mark Middlebrook AutoCAD LT ® 2005 FOR DUMmIES ‰ [...]... 2005 (A2k5) AutoCAD LT 2005 2004 Acad 2004 AutoCAD 2004 (A2k4) AutoCAD LT 2004 2003 Acad 2004 AutoCAD 2002 (A2k2) AutoCAD LT 2002 2001 Acad 2000 AutoCAD 2000i (A2ki) AutoCAD LT 2000i 2000 Acad 2000 AutoCAD 2000 (A2k) AutoCAD LT 2000 1999 Acad 2000 AutoCAD Release 14 (R14) AutoCAD LT 98 & 97 1997 Acad R14 AutoCAD Release 13 (R13) AutoCAD LT 95 1994 Acad R13 AutoCAD Release 12 (R12) AutoCAD LT Release... between AutoCAD 2004 and AutoCAD 2005 ߜ You can use the Save As option in newer versions to save the file to some older DWG formats For example, AutoCAD LT 2005 can save to the previous format, namely the AutoCAD 2000 DWG format Table 1-1 shows which versions use which DWG file formats Table 1-1 AutoCAD Versions and DWG File Formats AutoCAD Version AutoCAD LT Version Release Year DWG File Format AutoCAD. .. developed for AutoCAD don’t work with LT AutoCAD LT does include the same menu and script customization features that AutoCAD has As a result, a few very simple AutoCAD add-ons do work with LT For example, you can purchase or download block libraries — collections of drafting symbols — that work with LT AutoCAD LT also has only limited 3D support You can view and edit 3D objects in AutoCAD LT, so you... other For Dummies books, this one does tell you to consult the official software documentation sometimes AutoCAD LT is just too big and complicated for a single book to attempt to describe it completely 2 AutoCAD LT 2005 For Dummies This book focuses on AutoCAD LT 2005 I do occasionally mention differences with previous versions, going back to the highly popular AutoCAD Release 14 and AutoCAD LT 97,... AutoCAD for roughly 20 percent of the money Like AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT runs on mainstream Windows computers and doesn’t require any additional hardware devices With AutoCAD LT, you can be a “player” in the world of AutoCAD, the world’s leading CAD program, for a comparatively low starting cost AutoCAD LT is a close cousin to AutoCAD Autodesk, the company that makes the two programs, created AutoCAD LT. .. building-block approach can be especially valuable in a program as powerful as AutoCAD LT The following sections describe the parts that the book breaks down into Part I: Lighting Up LT Need to know your way around the AutoCAD LT screen? Why does LT even exist, anyway? What’s the difference between AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT, and is LT right for you? What’s that funny command line thing with all the text at... claims to have sold more copies of AutoCAD LT than of AutoCAD, as of a few years ago.) This book is not for the sort of people who have been using AutoCAD LT for a decade, who plan their vacation time around Autodesk University, or who consider 1,000-page-plus technical tomes about AutoCAD as pleasure reading This book is for people who want to get going quickly with AutoCAD LT, but who also know the importance... Users Are Your Friends 355 A Pox on Proxies 356 Forget Sheet Sets 356 Raster Disaster 356 Xclip Exemption 357 From Flatland to 3D .357 The Customization Limitation 357 Other Differences 358 Trading Up (or Trading Down!) 358 Index 359 xix xx AutoCAD LT 2005 For Dummies Introduction A utoCAD came into being... Block-Head (And an Xref-Man) 291 Rocking with Blocks 292 Creating block definitions 293 Inserting blocks 297 Attributes: Fill-in-the-blank blocks 299 Exploding blocks .304 Going External .305 Becoming attached to your xrefs 306 Layer-palooza .307 Creating and editing an external reference file 308 Forging an xref... industrialstrength tasks like CAD (The acronym stands for Computer-Aided Drafting, Computer-Aided Design, or both, depending on whom you talk to.) AutoCAD LT was born over a decade ago, as a much lower-cost alternative for those who needed most, but not all, of AutoCAD s impressive CAD muscle It’s remarkable that, after all this time, AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT remain the king and prince of the microcomputer . Middlebrook AutoCAD LT ® 2005 FOR DUMmIES ‰