Harnessing AutoCAD 2000

Book Description
Our best selling text, Harnessing AutoCAD« 2000, fully updated to AutoCAD 2000, includes excellent coverage of AutoCAD software fundamentals reinforced with illustrations and numerous exercises, including step-by-step project exercises. For many releases this text has provided AutoCAD users with information on how and why to invoke particular commands and features of AutoCAD, helping you master this complex software. Chapter features include input methods, drawing setup, and "Points of Interest." Chapter review questions check progress and comprehension. If you only need one AutoCAD resource, this is the one! Keywords: AutoCAD 2000


Book Info
Presents a comprehensive resource of AutoCAD fundamentals and the new tools introduced in AutoCAD 2000. Covers fundamental commands and concepts in-depth through numerous detailed project exercises, preparing the user to master the more advanced design power of AutoCAD 2000. Softcover. CD-ROM included. DLC: Computer graphics.


From the Publisher
HARNESSING THE POWER OF AUTOCAD 2000 Harnessing AutoCAD 2000 brings you comprehensive descriptions, explanations and examples of the basics of AutoCAD 2000 and its new innovations. It has been written to be used both in the classroom as a textbook as well as in industry by the professional CADD designer/drafter as a reference and learning tool. The chapter on dimensioning has been completely updated. The new AutoCAD Design Center is thoroughly covered along with in-depth explanations of the new AutoSnap and Tracking features. Whether you're new to AutoCAD or a seasoned user upgrading your skills, Harnessing AutoCAD will show you how to reign in the power of AutoCAD to improve your professional skills and increase your productivity. Harnessing AutoCAD 2000 will be one of the first books available on AutoCAD 2000 and Autodesk Press will be the only AutoCAD publisher offering a Free 30 day trial version of AutoCAD 2000 included in a CD-ROM in the back of most of our AutoCAD 2000 titles! The CD-ROM will contain fully functional AutoCAD 2000 software (no student watermark or hardware lock!) which will expire 30 days after initial installation. Also included on the CD-ROM are drawing files which can be used with AutoCAD 2000. HOW TO USE THE BOOK OVERVIEW The first chapter of this text provides an overview of the AutoCAD program, its interface, the commands, special features and warnings, and AutoCAD 2000 enhancements. Specific commands are described in detail throughout the book, along with lessons on how to use them. FUNDAMENTALS Harnessing AutoCAD contains five chapters devoted to teaching the fundamentals of AutoCAD 2000. Fundamentals I introduces some of the basic commands and concepts, and Fundamentals II through V continue to build logically on that foundation until the student has a reasonable competency in the most basic functions of AutoCAD. INTERMEDIATE After mastering the fundamentals, you move on to the intermediate topics, which include dimensioning, plotting and printing, hatching and boundaries, blocks and attributes, external references, and drawing environments. Other chapters teach students to make the most of AutoCAD using utility commands, scripts and slides, 3D commands, rendering, and the digitizing tablet. ADVANCED For the advanced AutoCAD user, this book offers a chapter on customizing AutoCAD 2000 (including toolbar customization) and Visual LISP. These two chapters teach you to make AutoCAD 2000 more individualized and powerful as you tailor them to your special needs.


About the Author
Thomas A. Stellman has been teaching AutoCAD since the debut of version 1.4 in 1983. He also conducts AutoLISP seminars, has published in CADENCE magazine, and is currently project coordinator for a state-of-the-art engineering firm. G.V. Krishnan is the Director of the Applied Business & Technology Center at the University of Houston (Downton). He has been teaching basic through advanced AutoCAD courses for nearly ten years at one of the nation's largest authorized Autodesk Training Centers.


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Using a skill-based command progression, the guide first demonstrates fundamental commands and concepts through step by step project exercises. The next set of intermediate topics features dimensioning, plotting and printing, hatching and boundaries, blocks and attributes, external references, drawing environments, utility commands, scripts and slides, 3D, and the digitizing tablet. Two advanced chapters cover customizing AutoCAD 2000, and Visual LISP. The CD-ROM contains a 30 day trial version of AutoCAD 2000. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)


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