Exercise Workbook for Beginning AutoCAD 2007 (AutoCAD Exercise Workbooks) [Paperback]

Cheryl Shrock (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0831133023 | ISBN-13: 978-0831133023

This title includes 30-day AutoCAD 2007 Trial Software on the enclosed CDs. It is totally updated for AutoCAD 2007 and 2007 LT including the new and enhanced Commands, Dimensioning, Hatching, Mtext, Dynamic Blocks, Dynamic Input and more. Ideal for classroom instruction or as a self-study tutorial, it provides only what you need without all of the jargon. It includes 30 lessons with step by step instructions followed by exercises designed for practicing the commands learned within the lesson. Each lesson starts very simple and progresses to more complex. It familiarizes users with the drawing commands first, and then teaches users to create their own setup drawings. It explains each lesson clearly and in a non-intimidating manner.

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About the Author

Cheryl R. Shrock is a Professor and Chairperson of Computer Aided Design at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California. She is an Autodesk registered author and has written a dozen workbooks on AutoCAD. Cheryl began teaching CAD in 1990. Previous to teaching, she owned and operated a commercial product and machine design business where designs were created and documented using CAD. This workbook is a combination of her teaching skills and her industry experience.

Product Details

• Paperback: 440 pages
• Publisher: Industrial Press, Inc. (July 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0831133023
• ISBN-13: 978-0831133023
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,281,319 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Without College Start Here, October 14, 2006

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Dirk J. Willard "Dirk Willard" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Exercise Workbook for Beginning AutoCAD 2007 (AutoCAD Exercise Workbooks) (Paperback)

This book was sent to several engineers at the magazine. The author provides a good starting point for someone with a high school education. You will have to get a more advanced text to teach yourself the finer points but this would be the place to start. The fonts used are easy to read.

I did not try the disk so I won't comment. Having the disk is an excellent idea. Two discs with a 30-day trial for AutoCAD and a simple step-by-step manual provides ample tools for self-study.

The only reason why I did not give a 5 was because the text won't provide the more advanced techniques you will need to actually use AutoCAD on the job.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New to AutoCAD?, February 2, 2007

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K. Murray "thePeacePolice" (OC, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Exercise Workbook for Beginning AutoCAD 2007 (AutoCAD Exercise Workbooks) (Paperback)

For anyone looking to learn the architecture program AutoCAD, this workbook is ideal. It instills a challenge yet manageable tenacity for every beginner. As a post-novice experience, Shrock's Workbook for Advanced AutoCAD is a meticulous step. 5 stars way, way up!

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3.0 out of 5 stars Lackluster & Sloppy Editing, March 10, 2007

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Quigly E. Demosthenes "QED" (NYC, NY USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Exercise Workbook for Beginning AutoCAD 2007 (AutoCAD Exercise Workbooks) (Paperback)

It shouldn't be hard to find a better text than this one for an AutoCAD course or for self-study. Though this "Exercise Workbook" is supposedly for "Beginning AutoCAD 2007," the illustrations and portions of the instructions correspond to the 2006 edition of AutoCAD. This error is likely to be off-putting for the absolute AutoCAD neophytes to whom this workbook is addressed.

Furthermore--though the publisher does clearly state the fact--the included edition of AutoCAD 2007 - while it is the complete software (and not a "light" version) - nevertheless inconveniently "times out" in about a month... probably not enough time to work through the entire book at a sane and profitable pace.

While working with the ACTUAL software should be a plus in learning, its inclusion here may actually work against the learner.

Either the timeout on the included software were better extended to full-semester length (say 4-5 months) or an untimed, stripped down Learner's ELEMENTS of AutoCAD should have been produced to go with its matching workbook (which would not be THIS text).

The text and fonts are large enough for easy reading. Screens are reproduced clearly enough. Nevertheless, the whole production has a rather rough-and-ready, "cheesy feel" about it.

In other words, the "production values" are not high. Though this workbook is not expensive (and certainly not at Amazon!), its perhaps consequent crudeness relative to more produced or crafted (and more expensive?) texts, may defeat the virtue of being easily come by.

Easy come... not necessarily easy- (and definitely not long-) going. This workbook gives the impression that its author is merely riding the wave of successive editions of the software... merely retitling, perhaps adding new installation instructions - but not much more tracking than that - to keep consistent with changes in the software (which didn't even happen on this go-round!).

Apart from the software timeout issue, the pedagogy itself seems sound and confident with information presented in coherent small chunks. The author actually seems to let herself down with this somewhat tired 2006 redux of (one is led to expect without actually doing the examination) a 2005 redux of....