If you've ever worked on a complex architectural or engineering project, you already know what until now drafting software has failed to grasp-namely, that a complete set of plans can encompass hundreds of pages. With the release of AutoCAD 2005, you can finally combine multiple pages (and multiple drawings) in a single file. Big news when it comes to design and drafting workflows! Here to get you taking advantage of AutoCAD 2005's enhanced functionality fast is the original book on the topic-fine-tuned, focused, and thoroughly revised to help intermediate and advanced AutoCAD users just like yourself. Author David Harrington starts with what matters most: a guided tour of all that's new in AutoCAD 2005--including the ability to convey markup and review information in a format even nondrafters can understand. He then goes on to cover every phase of the AutoCAD workflow. Throughout, the volume combines text, tutorials, and a CD packed with lesson files to take an in-depth approach to the most important AutoCAD tasks.
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If you've ever worked on a complex architectural or engineering project, you already know what until now drafting software has failed to grasp-namely, that a complete set of plans can encompass hundreds of pages. With the release of AutoCAD 2005, you can finally combine multiple pages (and multiple drawings) in a single file. Big news when it comes to design and drafting workflows! Here to get you taking advantage of AutoCAD 2005's enhanced functionality fast is the original book on the topic-fine-tuned, focused, and thoroughly revised to help intermediate and advanced AutoCAD users just like yourself. Author David Harrington starts with what matters most: a guided tour of all that's new in AutoCAD 2005--including the ability to convey markup and review information in a format even nondrafters can understand. He then goes on to cover every phase of the AutoCAD workflow. Throughout, the volume combines text, tutorials, and a CD packed with lesson files to take an in-depth approach to the most important AutoCAD tasks.
About the Author
David J. Harrington is the office computer manager at Walter P. Moore and Associates, Inc., a structural engineering company in Tampa, where he specializes in commercial structural computer-aided drafting and design work. Although now doing structural work using AutoCAD, his drafting experiences range from landscape irrigation design to retrofitting Launch Pad 39B for NASA at the Kennedy Space Center.
He has been active in the AutoCAD local user group community for more than 14 years, holding offices for the Tampa Bay AutoCAD User Group as newsletter editor, treasurer, content director, and president. Beginning in 1994, Harrington was elected to the board of directors for Autodesk User Group International (formally NAAUG). There he served as the Local User Group representative, AEC Industry Group chair, Vice President, Senior Vice President, and also President.
Harrington first used AutoCAD in 1987 when he began working with AutoCAD Release 2.6. He is well-versed in AutoLISP, having created hundreds of programs, and is the original creator of REVCLOUD-now a feature within core AutoCAD. An avid writer, Harrington has authored numerous articles for national trade magazines, as well as AUGI user group publications PaperSpace, WorldView, and AUGIWORLD magazine. He is also currently on staff with AUGIWORLD as technical editor. Harrington has been granted AutoCAD Level II certification from Autodesk. Additionally, Harrington has won the CADENCE magazine Top Gun AutoCAD contest and the CADalyst Challenge AutoCAD contest. These awards attest to his grasp of the software and his ability to make the program work for him. He is also a member of the faculty for Autodesk University, regularly speaking and instructing at the event.
In addition to this book, Harrington also technical edited Inside AutoCAD Release 14 and co-authored/technical edited Inside AutoCAD 2000 and Inside AutoCAD 2000, Limited Edition. He also was author-et-al for the previous book in this series, Inside AutoCAD 2002.
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This review is from: Inside AutoCAD 2005 (Paperback)
The most common architectural and engineering drawing package, for at least a decade. If you are a mechanical or civil engineer or architect, or a student in those fields, it behooves you to have some passing familiarity with AutoCAD. Now this book gives you the latest version, 2005.By now, the differences with recent previous editions, like 2004, are incremental. Autodesk is continually refining and adding new features, like improved annotations. The first chapter describes these newbies in 2005. But guess what? If you read through the rest of the book, which essentially describes 2004, then you can see that 2005 is just an incremental upgrade. So if you are currently using the 2004 version, and have no plans to migrate, you may well consider skipping 2005 and waiting for a future edition. The book explicitly acknowledges this strategy. Though the example it gives is the user skipping recent editions like 2004 and now deciding to take up 2005. What you can expect from the 2005 package is a very stable and well tested edition. A mature development platform. If you are a full time AutoCAD user, you may want to peruse the latest 2005 changes to see if indeed it is time to upgrade.
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