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Introducing AutoCAD 2006 presents an organized collection of concise instructions for learning how to use today's leading desktop design and drawing software. Written specifically for first-time users of AutoCAD, Introducing AutoCAD 2006 sets you up for success with its abundant easy-to-follow instructions and illustrations that relay the key AutoCAD commands and capabilities from basic installation through 2D drawing. State-of-the-art AutoCAD 2006 functionality is featured, including progressive examples of prompt response sequences, accompanied by illustrations that reinforce understanding. A vast assortment of discipline-specific exercises and projects in this edition guide you to proficient use of AutoCAD 2006. Introducing AutoCAD 2006 also includes a CD-ROM and an online companion resource.
Features:
- Thorough coverage of the new feature Dynamic Blocks and other productivity enhancement features introduced in AutoCAD 2006.
- Learning objectives, integrated exercises, summaries, problems, and quizzes are designed to help novices master fundamental AutoCAD concepts.
- Exercises are provided in complete project format for practicing concepts and commands.
- The comprehensive Appendices list commands, system and dimension variables, interface concepts, fonts, fill and hatch patterns, linetypes, hardware requirements, and plotter and printer devices.
Introducing AutoCAD 2006 has been written to introduce AutoCAD to students or new users in an organized and logical sequence of lessons. The book is divided into five sections as follows:
- Section One: In a Nutshell, introduces the program and how to use the main features, while creating fundamental drawing elements in AutoCAD.
- Section Two: World Power, covers modifying objects, using Layers to manage objects and parts of a drawing, creating text and accurate dimensions suitable for various disciplines.
- Section Three: A Bigger World, explains how to use complex objects, that are a powerful part of the AutoCAD program, along with advanced modifying features to create new objects from existing objects.
- Section Four: The Package is Complete, covers advanced elements and features of AutoCAD such as advanced dimensioning commands, using paper space for layouts, and plotting.
- Section Five: Icing on the Cake, explains how to combine simple objects into composite groups of objects for easier manipulation and redrawing, using already existing drawings in your new drawing, and the use of many other utility features that add speed and accuracy to the CADD drawing process.
Contents:
Chapter 1: Out-of-the-Box. Chapter 2: A World for Objects. Chapter 3: Creating Objects. Chapter 4: Exploration and Discovery. Chapter 5: Selecting, Copying, and Changing Objects. Chapter 6: The Flat Earth Society (Layer by Layer). Chapter 7: Words and Tables. Chapter 8: The Size of it All. Chapter 9: Creating Complex Objects. Chapter 10: Duplication and Alteration. Chapter 11: Advanced Object Selection. Chapter 12: Hatching, Gradients and Boundaries. Chapter 13: All about Styles. Chapter 14: All Sizes Fit One. Chapter 15: Creating and Modifying Layouts. Chapter 16: The Plot Thickens. Chapter 17: Assembled Symbols. Chapter 18: Drawings in Drawings. Chapter 19: Mission Control. Chapter 20: Deliverables. Chapter 21: Busy Bees and Workhorses. Appendix A: Hardware Requirements. Appendix B: Listing of AutoCAD Commands, Menu and Command Prompts. Appendix C: AutoCAD Toolbars. Appendix D: System Variables. Appendix E: Hatch and Fill Patterns. Appendix F: Fonts. Appendix G: Linetypes and Lineweights. Appendix H: Command Aliases. Appendix I: Express Tools. Index.
About the Authors:
G. V. Krishnan the Director of the Applied Business and Technology Center at the University of Houston. He has been teaching basic through advanced AutoCAD courses for nearly ten years at one of the nation's largest authorized AutoDesk Training Centers, and has co-authored Thomson Delmar Learning's Harnessing AutoCAD titles.
Thomas A. Stellman conducts AutoLISP seminars, has published in Cadence magazine and has recently retired as project coordinator for a state-of-the-art engineering firm. He is the co-author of Thomson Delmar Learning's Harnessing AutoCAD titles and has been teaching for more than eight years. |
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