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By: Elliot GindisImprint: Academic Press
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Gindis introduces AutoCAD with step by step instructions, stripping away complexities to begin working in AutoCAD immediately. All concepts are explained first in theory, and then shown in practice, helping the reader understand what it is they are doing and why, before they do it.
Divided into three parts, the book covers beginning through advanced AutoCAD, including 3D features.
Also included is an extensive Appendix
for each part, detailing additional useful CAD-related information not often found
in other text books
The book contains supporting graphics (screen shots) and a summary with a self-test section at the end of each chapter. Also included are drawing examples and exercises, and two running "projects" that the student works on as he/she progresses through the chapters .
1) Strips away complexities, both real and perceived and reduces AutoCAD to easy-to-understand basic concepts.
2) Teaches only what is essential to operating AutoCAD first, thereby immediately building student confidence.
3) All basic commands are documented step-by-step, meaning that what the student needs to type in and how AutoCAD responds is all spelled out in discrete and clear steps with screen shots added as needed.
4) Using the author's extensive multi-industry knowledge of what is important and widely used in practice versus what is not, the material is presented by immediately immersing the student in practical, critically essential knowledge, with no padding of text or filler material.
5) All concepts are explained first in theory, and only then is AutoCAD introduced and the actual "button pushing" discussed. This is one of the key concepts in having students understand exactly what it is they are doing and why, before they do it.
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| Title of Technology eBook: Up and Running with AutoCAD 2012 | |
| Release Date: 08-10-2010 | |
| Publisher: Academic Press |
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Up and Running with AutoCAD 2012
Chapter One
AutoCAD Fundamentals Part I
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
In this chapter, we introduce AutoCAD and discuss the following:
Introduction and the basic commands.
The Create Objects commands.
The Edit/Modify Objects commands.
The View Objects commands.
The AutoCAD environment.
Interacting with AutoCAD.
Practicing the Create Objects commands.
Practicing the Edit/Modify Objects commands.
Selection methods—Window and Crossing.
Accuracy in drafting—Ortho.
Accuracy in drafting—OSNAPs.
By the end of the chapter, you will have learned the essential basics of creating, modifying, and viewing objects; the AutoCAD environment; and accuracy in the form of straight lines and precise alignment of geometric objects via OSNAP points.
Estimated time for completion of chapter: 3 hours.
1.1 INTRODUCTION AND BASIC COMMANDS
AutoCAD 2011 is a very complex program. If you are taking a class or reading this textbook, this is something you probably already know. The commands available to you, along with their submenus and various options, number in the thousands. So, how do you get a handle on them and begin using the software? Well, you have to realize two important facts.
First, you must understand that on a typical workday, 95% of your AutoCAD drafting time is spent using only 5% of the available commands, over and over again. So getting started is easy; you need to learn only a handful of key commands, and as you progress and build confidence, you can add depth to your knowledge by learning new ones.
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