Workplace Skills for Success with AutoCAD 2009: Basics Through Advanced

Workplace Skills for Success with AutoCAD 2009: Basics Through Advanced offers students a layered learning approach and addresses all aspects of the AutoCAD capabilities. This text focuses on 3-D and 2-D techniques within the context of a real world workplace environment, and is designed around the draw-modify-dimension-print cycle and presents topics in a production-based order. The book contains many assignments, projects, tutorials and examples that will help students build the skills they need gradually. 696 pages.

Features:

• Builds knowledge gradually so that students will gain techniques needed in order to create drawings while developing advanced understanding of each area.
• Makes learning manageable instead of overwhelming the reader immediately with numerous procedures and commands.
• Emphasizes commands that are based on workplace drawing experiences in order to get the student producing and drawing more effectively by focusing on the draw-modify-dimension-print cycle.
• Uses tutorials and exercises in order to develop it through understanding of the basic, intermediate and advanced skills needed to be successful in the workplace.
• Contains discipline specific sample drawings, examples and exercises that make the material more meaningful to each student.
• Gives instructors examples that are appropriate for coursework.
• Offers a single all-in-one complete source for learning AutoCAD.
• Makes preparation easier for instructors.
• Makes text more adaptable for multiple learning styles.

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. AutoCAD Introduction and Overview
• Chapter 2. Creating and Working with AutoCAD Files
• Chapter 3. Fundamental Drawing and Modifying Commands
• Chapter 4. Fundamental Viewing and Inquiry Commands
• Chapter 5. Elementary Dimensioning
• Chapter 6. Fundamentals of the Plot/Printing Process
• Chapter 7. Intermediate Drawing and Modifying
• Chapter 8. Fundamentals of Layers, Groups, and Blocks
• Chapter 9. Editing with Grips
• Chapter 10. Tabels, Cells, and Fields Fundamentals
• Chapter 11. More About AutoCAD Screens and Commands
• Chapter 12. Advanced Drawing and Modifying Commands
• Chapter 13. Introduction to 3D Modeling
• Chapter 14. Creating 3D Objects
• Chapter 15. Modifying 3D Solid Objects
• Chapter 16. 3D Presentations
• Chapter 17. 3D Animations
• Chapter 18. Plotting 3D Models
• Chapter 19. AutoCAD File Formats and Raster Images
• Chapter 20. Advanced Blocks and Attribute Operations
• Chapter 21. The Styles of AutoCAD
• Chapter 22. Internet Utilities and Operations
• Chapter 23. Drawing Standards