This reader-friendly, hardbound text focuses on using AutoCAD as a drafting tool, helping readers understand the foundations for the software's commands, learn basic skills, and progress into more advanced drawing areas such as dimensioning an object. Offers a non-discipline approach that is equally accessible to readers of mechanics, architecture or electronics, and weaves many examples and exercises throughout to expose users to real-world problems and situations. Concentrates on the 2D drafting functions of AutoCAD. Contains an overview, outline and objectives; numerous well-defined illustrations; iconed 'Skill Builder' and 'For the Professional' sections; boxed tutorials that 'walk' readers through a particular command or concept; short answer questions and a 'generic' assignment. Also contains an interactive website and a workdisk in the text. Appropriate as an introduction to AutoCAD.
Dr. Steven B. Combs is a Professor and the Dean of Applied Science and Engineering Technology at Ivy Tech Community College in Lafayette, Indiana. Dr. Combs received his doctoral degree in Higher Education Administration and Leadership from Indiana State University, a masters degree in Industrial Technology from Murray State University and an undergraduate degree in Industrial Education with a Minor in Military Science from Murray State University.
Prior to his appointment as Dean, he served as the Program Chair for Advanced Manufacturing and Industrial Technology and as the Instructional Technologist for Ivy Tech Community College in Evansville, Indiana. Dr. Combs served as both a Graduate Teaching Assistant and a Visiting Lecturer for the Mechanical Drafting and Design Department at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. He was also a Computer Science Adjunct Faculty member for Paducah Community College located in Paducah, Kentucky. With his co-author, Dr. Combs has published over nineteen AutoCAD and 3D Studio texts. He has been recognized at both state and national levels for his instructional excellence.
As a citizen-soldier with almost 25 years of service in the United States Army Reserve, he served on active duty as the government lead for all classified command and control enterprise information technology systems for United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), Scott Air Force Base, IL. Prior to his service at USTRANSCOM, he served on active duty as the Chief of Projects and Plan for Joint Task Force - Alaska at Elmendorf Air Force Base, AK. There he studied the effects of global climate change on national and strategic Arctic policy. He began his part-time military career in the Tennessee Air National Guard as an Automatic Flight Control Systems Specialist.
