TABLE OF CONTENTS The Internet is the most important way to convey digital information around the world. You are probably already familiar with the best-known uses of the Internet: e-mail (electronic mail) and surfing the Web (short for "World Wide Web." E-mail lets users exchange messages and data at very low cost. The Web brings together text, graphics, audio, and video in an easy-to-use format. Other uses of the Internet include FTP (file transfer protocol, for effortless binary-file transfer), Gopher (presents data in a structured, subdirectory-like format), and Usenet, a collection of news groups.
AutoCAD allows you to interact with the Internet in several ways. You can launch a Web browser from within AutoCAD. AutoCAD can create DWF (short for "Design Web Format" files for viewing drawings in 2D and 3D format on Web pages. AutoCAD can open and insert drawings from, and save drawings to the Internet.
This chapter also covers the AutoCAD feature that makes it possible to manage all the drawings that make up a design project, that is, a drawing set. After completing this chapter, you will be able to do the following:
Launch the default Web browser
Use the Communication Center
Open drawings from the Internet
Save drawings to the Internet
Create and use hyperlinks
Create and view DWF files
Etransmit
Publish to Web
Collect, sort, create, and manage drawing sheets
Create layout views automatically
Automate the numbering of sheets
Archive a set of drawings
The BROWSER command lets you start a...
