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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | AutoCAD is the leading software tool for creating technical and architectural drawings, but it definitely doesn't lead in the "easy to master" category. That's why there's AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies—the perfect way to break a complex topic into bite-size, easy-to-understand pieces.Once you get the hang of using AutoCAD and its slightly less feature-rich cousin, AutoCAD LT, you discover that it offers wonderful advantages. AutoCAD allows you to - Create precision to 14 significant digits
- Re-use portions of your drawings by copying and pasting
- Draw things full size and print your drawings in any scale
- Produce drawings that are easier to read when reduced
- Electronically share and distribute drawings
- Design in 2D or 3D
So obviously, the trick is to speed up that "getting the hang of it" process. That's where AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies comes in especially handy. Ten easy-to-follow minibooks cover every aspect of AutoCAD, including the latest features of AutoCAD 2007, so you can find just what you need to know quickly and easily. You'll get the scoop on - AutoCAD basics, such as setting up drawings, finding your way around the interface, and using all the tools
- Drawing and modifying objects in 2D and annotating your drawings
- 3D modeling and viewing, working with solids and surfaces, and rendering
- Understanding how AutoCAD LT differs from AutoCAD and deciding which program you need
- Advanced drafting skills, including organizing drawings, working with blocks, and using AutoCAD utilities
- Setting up your drawings for plotting to paper and publishing
- Sharing your drawings online for collaboration
- Customizing and programming AutoCAD to make it work the way you want it to
In the familiar, friendly For Dummies fashion, AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies gives you plain-English explanations and step-by-step directions. Written by a pair of AutoDesk Authorized Authors, this handy guide will help make your relationship with AutoCAD a happy and productive one. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | David Byrnes | | Paperback: | 786 pages | | Publisher: | For Dummies | | Publication Date: | August 07, 2006 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0471752606 | | Product Length: | 9.24 inches | | Product Width: | 7.48 inches | | Product Height: | 1.74 inches | | Product Weight: | 2.61 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.13 inches | | Package Width: | 7.48 inches | | Package Height: | 1.97 inches | | Package Weight: | 2.69 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 3 reviews |
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6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 A Lot of Material, but Well Presented Oct 30, 2006
By John Matlock
"Gunny"
When you are first starting to use AutoCAD, you get to the point where you are looking at a basically bare screen with a whole bunch of control icons around the edges. What do you do then? Just simply getting the first line drawn is a confusing task.
In this book the authors have applied the full range of the 'For Dummies' books style guidelines to produce a book that gets you working in AutoCAD just as fast as possible. It still takes them over fifty pages to get started drawing a picture, but that first fifty pages gives you a lot, an awful lot, of basic information. So often I find that computer books leave out this first fifty pages that explain just what it is that we are trying to do. Plow through it. It's material that you will need to know sooner or later, probably sooner, and it's really not that bad.
As a simple summary about this book. I like the 'For Dummies' style, and if I were trying to get started in AutoCAD, it's where I would start.
It's a big book, almost 800 pages, but a lot of details about Autocad are included. You'll be productive before you get down to the customizing and programming chapters.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Fast reference Mar 03, 2007
By Kenneth K. Carrell
"Ken"
This is the book I use for quick reference when the latest version of AutoCAD comes out. They always seem to change things around and the help in the program is poor at best. This book makes it easy to find the commands for the common stuff and I use the AutoCAD Bible for the more complicated commands.
0 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Better Than Nothing Apr 15, 2007
By R. Collom
This book provides lots of good information, but it is truly written for dummies. By that I mean that the book is really dummed down with very specific instructions on doing things like opening the program, saving a file, etc.
There are lots of great tips scattered throughout the book. However, they will be difficult to find again without highlighting the book the first time you read it.
The author seems to assume that the reader has experience in AutoCad. This assumption lends the book towards not providing exercises on how to use the program. Such exercises would have made the book much more useful.
The bottom line: The AutoCad software is a big let down in the context sensitive help. A good instruction book is needed - but this is not it. If you can't find a better book, get this one. But, do the best you can to find a book that walks the reader through using the program with exercises.
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