AutoCAD Release 14 for Dummies [Paperback]

Bud E. Smith (Author)

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Publication Date: July 30, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0764501046 | ISBN-13: 978-0764501043 | Edition: 2 Sub

AutoCAD is a complete drawing environment that can be difficult to understand. This text explains how to draw and create designs, as well as showing the user how to use AutoCAD's intuitive interface that engineers and artists find helpful for their work.

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Get up and running fast — no experience necessary! AutoCAD 2002 is unbeatable when it comes to creating professional-quality technical drawings. Unfortunately, AutoCAD is also notoriously complex — which is why you need this friendly guide. From drawing and editing fundamentals to paper space plot layouts, xrefs, Internet collaboration, and more, Mark Middlebrook and Bud Smith will get you up to speed in no time!

Discover how to: Get a grip on draw, edit, and zoom basics Add text, hatching, and dimension to drawings Plot the perfect printout Speed up workflow with reusable blocks Collaborate on drawings over the Web

The Dummies Way^™ Explanations in plain English "Get in, get out" information Icons and other navigational aids Tear-out cheat sheet Top ten lists A dash of humor and fun

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About the Author

Bud Smith's AutoCAD LT 2000 For Dummies® makes more than ten books he's written and his third book with Mark Middlebrook. Non-AutoCAD-related work includes authorship of the hit book, Creating Web Pages For Dummies®, now in its fourth edition. Bud first realized he might have a talent for structural design during junior high school, when his model of the Hoover Dam was judged the best project in the class. But that sounded too much like real work to Bud, who has built a career in computing and writing instead. Bud is Producer of the Technology Channel at AltaVista Company and has worked as a data entry clerk, computer programmer, technical writer, computer journalist, and marketer. In order to avoid dealing with all the new features in AutoCAD 2000 and AutoCAD LT 2000 himself -- what he calls the "A2K problem" -- he asked Mark to co-author AutoCAD 2000 For Dummies® and this book with him.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Wiley Publishing; 2 Sub edition (July 30, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764501046
• ISBN-13: 978-0764501043
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,217,209 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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43 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book covers very little on AutoCad 2002, March 21, 2002

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This review is from: AutoCAD 2002 for Dummies (Paperback)

I'm a newbie to Autocad. I was fooled by the previous reviewer, thinking this might be a good book to start out my Autocad carreer. When I got the book and realized that the content is too little and it mentions NOTHING on the 3D part of AutoCAd. I have to return this book and got "AutoCAD 2002: No Experience Required". Now this is a much better book to get started if you are a newbie. It covers most of the 2d stuff then has some intro to 3d. Then I got AutoCad 2002 Bible, which covers virtually everything a Autocad.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good book for beginners, November 4, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: AutoCAD Release 14 for Dummies (Paperback)

This book is an excellent guide for beginners. It explores AutoCAD in a easy way. However, I'd like to mention that it doesn't explain "attributes" and "isometric perspective".

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars better than average for someone without CAD experiance, February 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: AutoCAD Release 14 for Dummies (Paperback)

On the whole a well concieved, organized and written book. The books failings come from the fact that it conforms to the limitations and requirments for humor of thr "for dummies series". I would encourage the author to write a similar, more comprehensive, book outside of these limitations.