Customer Reviews

Mastering Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2006

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The material does not correspond with ADT 2006. As you read and start lessons, the book calls for you to push buttons that don't exist and to use commands that don't appear in the menus they say they should. It is definitely not for someone to learn from, only to refresh what one already knows.

MADT 06 is over-the-top helpful. With consistent reading and follow through of exercises, we easily moved from, "What the heck is all this stuff? -- to, "I get it, I get it, I can't live without it." We found Mr. Aubin's tools and project examples very applicable and useful to real world application. Another great advantage of reading MADT is the author's explanation of out of the box material in the software. Most draftsmen are compelled to spend weeks re-configuring the software and tools to draw like they draw. Aubin helps explain this is not necessary. He's right. The author not only clearly explains how to use this complicated software but helps us understand that it is already equipped to save us time and money without spending endless man-hours making it draw with every color, line weight, block and tool that we've used the last 20 years.

I look forward to the updated "Mastering " series every time I upgrade Architectural Desktop.
Aubin's writings are kind of a clearing of the fog for me. I would hate to have to muddle through the new features without some direction and most of the other publications I've looked into seem very long winded and redundant but the "Mastering " books get right to the nuts & bolts.
Phil Vanderloo

My firm recently upgraded from 2002 to 2006 and it's been an ordeal. We've decided to use the project navigator's full functionallity and this book has been a wonderfull reference for the methodology behind it. I'd recommend this book to anyone doing the same.

As usual, Paul's latest Mastering ADT book is a must-have for anyone needing to learn how to use ADT in a real-world scenario. Rather than just another useless listing of commands and features, it is a process-oriented series of tutorials that walk users through example projects with plenty of coverage of the "why" as well as the "how to". As an ADT instructor and consultant, I recommend it to all of my students and customers.

We have a large installation of ADT at our company and Paul's books have always been step one in the training of our users. The book and tutorial guide you through difficult concepts and get you ready to start your own project. We don't start a project without this book. We recently used "Mastering" (and no traditional training) to create a library of custom multi-view blocks that scheduled all our doors, walls and spaces in a building that is one of the most complex in the world. Contrary to any detractors comments, we have found this book to be easy to use and valuable to our process.

Good and captivating. Could be a little more tight. Some of the delivered information should be known by the majority of users. Metric units need refinement sometimes.
Despite the critics the author should receive congratulations for the exellent job done.

Very good book for the price. Definitely the buy for someone who has some autocad background. However, I did find the book to be somewhat to broad in its examples. I think the author would have done much better if he had limited his scope of example to either residential or commercial. The residential examples were not very specific and were only understood if one read the commercial examples first. Being that I only design residential, it is a great resource in describing the different tools and commands available in the program.

Author should really stop writing books. I am very used to AutoCAD Bible series books and they are the best books ever. This so-called "mastering" is really just a step-by-step description of how author created his simple and ordinary projects, without describing any of the tools or techniques. And it even gets worse! Author is giving you predesigned items(from the CD) and preconfigured tools(also given by the author), without explaining how to create them or why they are even used! All the functionality of Architectural desktop is described in 10% - book is just a waste of paper. It is hard to navigate through the book, you cannot use the book as a reference, even pictures in the book look amazingly unprofessional. So think twice before spending money. I don't like to disappoint the author - but this "mastering manual" really sucks. How did it even get Autodesk logo on the cover? I wouldn't put it there...