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Harnessing AutoCAD 2006 continues to provide the widest selection of discipline-specific exercises and projects for you to learn how to use today's leading desktop design and drawing software. A smart how-to and reference, Harnessing AutoCad 2006 contains up-to-the-minute functionality including extensively illustrated examples of "prompt-response" sequences, whereby certain commands prompt you for additional information such as coordinates or dimensions to complete a function. The companion Exercise Manual has also been updated, and is included in its entirety on the CD-ROM in the back of the book. Harnessing AutoCad 2006 features problems in complete project format for practicing concepts and commands learned in a chapter or section, as well as for testing single concepts and commands. This complete package is appropriate for either the novice or advanced user.
Harnessing AutoCAD 2006 gives you comprehensive descriptions, explanations and examples of the basics of AutoCAD 2006 and its new innovations. Harnessing AutoCAD 2006 has been written to be used by both students as a textbook and in industry by the professional CADD designers or drafters as a reference and learning tool. Whether you are new to AuotCAD or a seasoned user upgrading your skills, Harnessing AutoCAD 2006 will show you how to rein in the power of AutoCAD to improve your professional skills.
Features:
- Thorough coverage of the new feature dynamic blocks and other productivity enhancement features introduced in AutoCAD 2006.
- Step-by-step explanations and examples illustrate the new sheet set manager feature, a CAD manager's dream come true.
- Detailed explanation of the enhancements to the already powerful tool pallets.
- Step-by-step explanation to create TEXT.SYMBOL TABLES for finish schedules, revision histories, specifications, drawing indexes, and notes.
- Easy-to-follow instructions and techniques set you up for success when working through exercises and projects.
- Comprehensive appendices list commands, system and dimension variables, interface concepts, fonts, fill and hatch patterns, linetypes, hardware requirements, and plotter and printer devices.
Contents:
Introduction. Chapter: 1 Getting Started. Chapter 2: Fundamentals I. Chapter 3: Fundamentals II. Chapter 4: Fundamentals III. Chapter 5: Fundamentals IV. Chapter 6: Fundamentals V. Chapter 7: Dimensioning. Chapter 8: Plotting and Layouts. Chapter 9: Hatching and Boundaries. Chapter 10: Block References and Attributes. Chapter 11: External References. Chapter 12: AutoCAD Design Center. Chapter 13: Utility Commands. Chapter 14: Drawing Sets. Chapter 15: AutoCAD 3D. Chapter 16: Rendering. Chapter 17: Customizing AutoCAD. Chapter 19: Visual LISP.
About the Authors:
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 author of Delmar's Practical AutoLISP and has been teaching for more than eight years.
G.V. Krishananis 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 nations largest authorized AutoDesk Training Centers.
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