After Completing This Book You'll Be Able To
- Understand the user interface
- Navigate through drawings with pan and zoom commands
- Create drawing objects, including lines, arcs, and circles
- Create and modify polylines, including rectangles and polygons
- Use Layers to control drawing objects
- Draw using Polar Tracking and coordinate methods
- Use Object Snaps and Object Snap Tracking
- Modify drawing objects
- Duplicate drawing objects
- Extract information from drawings with measuring tools
- Create and modify hatch patterns
- Create, insert, and modify blocks
- Create and scale paper space layouts and viewports
- Work with external references
- Print scale drawings and check plots
- Annotate drawings with text, dimensions, and leaders
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More About The Book
Welcome to the next generation of training materials for AutoCAD, the Practical Guide.
This book will introduce you to the fundamental tools you need to learn to be successful and productive with AutoCAD.
Each stand-alone lesson provides you with the foundation you need to effectively apply these features directly to your work flow. Follow clear, concise explanations, and work through exercises to reinforce your understanding of common tasks that other professionals are performing daily.
This large format book is spiral bound, to lie perfectly flat on your desk.
It features 88 exercises organized into 40 lessons in 12 chapters. Each lesson includes detailed descriptions of processes and theory with many illustrations and diagrams, to help you understand “why”, not just “how”.
Instructors: our books are used in classrooms worldwide. Find out more about using them in your next class.
Written, printed and published in the United States of America.
