Product Description

Your guide to Essential AutoCAD Techniques


In this newest edition of his indispensable book, bestselling AutoCAD author and expert George Omura offers a practical and comprehensive guide to help you easily and efficiently learn the basics of AutoCAD. His straightforward explanations and task-based approach--thoroughly updated for AutoCAD 2007 and AutoCAD LT 2007--make this practical book more valuable than ever.

Whether you're new to AutoCAD or just looking for a quick refresher, you'll find the authoritative instruction you need. Become familiar with all the drafting tools of AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT and learn how to:
* Master the basics of drawing and editing in AutoCAD
* Create 3D models and use the new modeling tools
* Add and edit notes and dimensions
* Understand the fundamentals of 2D drawing
* Get organized with layers, blocks, groups, and external references
* Find areas and distances quickly
* Extract hidden data
* Set up AutoCAD to work with your printer

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #312908 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 408 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780470008782
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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From the Back Cover
Your guide to Essential AutoCAD Techniques

In this newest edition of his indispensable book, bestselling AutoCAD author and expert George Omura offers a practical and comprehensive guide to help you easily and efficiently learn the basics of AutoCAD. His straightforward explanations and task-based approach—thoroughly updated for AutoCAD 2007 and AutoCAD LT 2007—make this practical book more valuable than ever.

Whether you're new to AutoCAD or just looking for a quick refresher, you'll find the authoritative instruction you need. Become familiar with all the drafting tools of AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT and learn how to:

• Master the basics of drawing and editing in AutoCAD
• Create 3D models and use the new modeling tools
• Add and edit notes and dimensions
• Understand the fundamentals of 2D drawing
• Get organized with layers, blocks, groups, and external references
• Find areas and distances quickly
• Extract hidden data
• Set up AutoCAD to work with your printer

About the Author
George Omura is a licensed architect, Autodesk Authorized Author, and CAD specialist with more than twenty years of experience in AutoCAD and more than thirty years of experience in architecture. He has worked on design projects ranging from resort hotels to metropolitan transit systems to the San Francisco Library project. He has written numerous other Sybex AutoCAD books, including Mastering AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT 2007, Mastering Autodesk VIZ 2005, and Just Enough AutoCAD 2006.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Buy
Just Enough AutoCAD 2007 is an excellent purchase. It does just what it's title entails, it give the user just enough information on the use of autocad to give them a fairly decent jumping off point. It is extremely easy to use and read and offers a more inexpensive way of finding out what you need to know/

Catching up, with the computer and drafting.
I have not used my high school drafting lessons since 1968, when I last attended Maricosta College in California. The computer was not very popular in that field, at the time, and now that it is, working with it is interesting and rewarding.
Auto Cad makes it simple, easy, and quick, to produce drawings from specifications. The T-Square and Drawing Board, are truely things of the past; and the protractor,compass and various other devices used for measureing angles, are very neatly displayed in the configuration of the program itself.
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01/06/2007