AutoCAD 2000: No Experience Required (Paperback)

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Product Description
AutoCAD 2000: No Experience Required is your step-by-step introduction to the latest version of AutoCAD, the computer drafting and design program that has become the industry standard in architecture, landscaping, engineering, and construction. Inside, practical examples and straightforward explanations show you exactly what you need to know to create a project -- and will help you master every essential AutoCAD feature.

Coverage includes:
* Find your way around AutoCAD
* Understand basic commands
* Set up a drawing
* Master drawing strategies
* Set up layers, colors, and linetypes
* Use blocks and wblocks
* Generate elevations
* Work with hatches and fills
* Control text in a drawing
* Dimension a drawing
* Manage external references
* Use layouts
* Print an AutoCAD drawing

From the Back Cover
AutoCAD 2000: No Experience Required is your step-by-step introduction to the latest version of AutoCAD, the computer drafting and design program that has become the industry standard in architecture, landscaping, engineering, and construction. Inside, practical examples and straightforward explanations show you exactly what you need to know to create a project -- and will help you master every essential AutoCAD feature.

Coverage includes:

• Find your way around AutoCAD
• Understand basic commands
• Set up a drawing
• Master drawing strategies
• Set up layers, colors, and linetypes
• Use blocks and wblocks
• Generate elevations
• Work with hatches and fills
• Control text in a drawing
• Dimension a drawing
• Manage external references
• Use layouts
• Print an AutoCAD drawing

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Product Details

• Paperback: 640 pages
• Publisher: Sybex (May 5, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782124984
• ISBN-13: 978-0782124989
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #302,465 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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63 of 64 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for someone with no CAD/Drafting experience, September 6, 1999

By	[e-mail] (S.F. Bay Area) - See all my reviews

I went through the first 6 chapters in a period of 2 1/2 days and I learned a great deal very quickly. He at times can be repetitive but his explanations will make you understand the concept the first time around. I'm usually not the type of person to comment on a book but I feel like I owe the author at least this. This book is definetly well worth the 25 bucks--more than that, really.

If you don't know squat about CAD, this book is, without a doubt, for you.

43 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Instructive but wordy, August 30, 1999

By A Customer

Pluses: A good self teaching book. With no previous Autocad experience I now feel confident that I can do basic 2-d drawings. The book got me to accomplish what I wanted, to learn basic Autocad, so basically a good recommendation. The pace was a contributator to confidence building.

Minuses: It could be written with a third to half less wordiness, the author drags out the instructions and basic Windows operations too much. I feel I should have been able to do the basic drawing in much less text.

Chapter 7 was very boring and took forever to get through with very little return for the time spent.

And the book only covers an single architectural design.

I would like to see other mechanical design example walk-throughs added with shorter text descriptions. More to-the-point.

Also it is difficult to find exactly where you learned something when you want to go back and refresh yourself, mainly because of the wordiness.

45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exelant book for biginners, November 30, 2000

By	G.P Gets (Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa) - See all my reviews

This book is amazing.. I did not know a thing about AutoCAD but in just 5 easy reading chapters (so far), I have put togeather a design for my house. Everything is explained step by step and the reason why it is done that way is also clear.

The book teaches the basics to the more complicated elevations, 3D drawing etc. It covers more than enough to get a good knowlage of AutoCAD.

NOTE : this book is based on architecture and not mechanical design. If you want to know how to draw house plans then this is the best book to buy.