Item #: 165-3433-06
Author: Paul Richard, Jim Fitzgerald
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:0132283433
Format: Paperback
Your Price: $88.95
This modern text addresses advances in technology and introduces students to 2- dimensional drawing skills and commands using the current release of AutoCAD. It continuously builds on concepts covered in previous chapters, contains exercises combined with in-text notes, and offers examples that provide the “how and why” of AutoCAD fundamentals, Projects created using the software will give students hands-on experience and a thorough understanding of how to use AutoCAD in the 21st century. 944 pp.
Introduction to AutoCAD® 2007: A Modern Perspective - Table of Contents:
- PART ONE – An Introduction to AutoCAD
- Introduction to AutoCAD
- Quick Start
- PART TWO – Drafting Skills: Drawing with AutoCAD
- Controlling the Drawing Display
- Basic Drawing Commands
- Drawing Aids and Drafting Settings
- Managing Object Properties
- PART THREE – Understanding Editing Techniques: Basics through Advanced
- Basic Editing Techniques
- Advanced Editing Techniques
- PART FOUR – Working with Complex Objects
- Drawing and Editing Complex Objects
- Pattern Fills and Hatching
- PART FIVE – Annotating Drawings
- Adding Text and Tables
- Dimensioning Drawings
- PART SIX – Outputting Your Work
- Managing Paper Space Layouts
- Plotting and Publishing
- PART SEVEN – Advanced Drawing and Construction Methods
- Blocks and Block Attributes
- Working with Xrefs and Images
- APPENDIX A - Drafting Standards Overview
- APPENDIX B - Command Reference
- APPENDIX C - Commanda Aliases
- APPENDIX D - System Variables
- APPENDIX E - Express Tools
- GLOSSARY
- INDEX