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AutoCAD® 2010 Essentials, Comprehensive Edition

Author(s): Munir Hamad
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763780043
  • Paperback    702 pages      © 2011
Price: International Sales $78.95 US List
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Overview

Unlike many AutoCAD competitors, this book covers all of the basics of Level 1 and Level 2 AutoCAD concepts. It uses "mixed units" e.g., inches, meters, feet, kilometers, etc., to illustrate the myriad drawing and editing tools for this popular application. Use the DVD to set up all the drawing lessons and projects in the text, see all of the book's figures in color, and draw with a trial version of AutoCAD 2010. This comprehensive edition includes 94 "workshops," that complete small projects –from concept through actual plotting. Solving all of the workshops will simulate the creation of a "real life" project from beginning to end, without overlooking any of the basic commands and functions in AutoCAD 2010.

Key features of the new comprehensive edition:

  • Use all advanced 2D drafting commands
  • Learn the most important advanced techniques
  • Create Dynamic Blocks
  • Create, Edit, Extract & Block Attributes
  • Use External Reference for team collaboration
  • Learn all about Sheet Sets
  • Learn all about CAD Standards checking
  • Utilize the more advanced layer functions
  • Use Autodesk Design Review for Markups
  • Use the Markup Set Manager

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  • Designed for novice users of AutoCAD 2010, and does not require any previous CAD experience.
  • Suitable for an instructor-led AutoCAD training course in Level 1 and Level 2, but also extremely useful as a "teach yourself" text.
  • Includes 94 "workshops" throughout, which allow you to quickly implement what you have learned.
  • Provides English and metric units in examples, exercises, projects, and descriptions.
  • Explains all first- and second-level commands, including blocks, text, hatching, dimensioning, and plotting, and progresses to the most important advanced block techniques, sheet sets, parametric constraints, and more.
  • Accompanying DVD features the AutoCAD 2010 trial software, drawings, plots, 4-color figures and all the exercises from the book.
  • Instructor's resources includes Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides and solutions to projects and exercises.

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ShowTable of Contents

Chapter 1  Introduction to AutoCAD 2010
Chapter 2  Drafting Using AutoCAD 2010
Chapter 3  How to Set Up Your Drawing
Chapter 4  A Few Good Construction Commands
Chapter 5  Modifying Commands
Chapter 6  Dealing with Blocks
Chapter 7  Hatching
Chapter 8  Text and Tables
Chapter 9  Dimensioning Your Drawing
Chapter 10  Plotting Your Drawing
Chapter 11  Advanced Objects
Chapter 12  Advanced Techniques
Chapter 13  Parametric Constraints & Advanced Block Techniques
Chapter 14  External Referencing (XREF)
Chapter 15  Sheet Sets
Chapter 16  CAD Standards & Advanced Layers
Chapter 17  Autodesk Design Review & Markup Set Manager
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Munir Hamad

Munir Hamad is an AutoDesk Approved Instructor, certified AutoDesk AutoCAD Master, and engineering software specialist, who has authored several AutoCAD titles and taught various levels of AutoCAD training.
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