Mastering AutoCAD 2005 and AutoCAD LT 2005 (Paperback)

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The world's best-selling, definitive guide to AutoCAD has been updated for the 2005 software! Once again, acclaimed author George Omura delivers the most comprehensive and comprehensible coverage for AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT users, including discussion of all the new features. He starts off with the essentials then moves on to the intermediate tasks before delving into advanced topics. Throughout, Omura provides concise explanations, focused examples, step-by-step instructions, and hands-on projects. While architectural processes are emphasized, you can apply the concepts to a variety of projects. The CD offers six chapters of advanced material, files for all of the drawing exercises, plus general-purpose utilities for better productivity.

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"Omura's explanations are concise, his graphics are excellent, and his examples are practical."—CADalyst

The Definitive CAD Resource Updated for 2005 Mastering AutoCAD 2005 and AutoCAD LT 2005 is a fully updated edition of Omura's enduring masterpiece. Once again, he delivers the most comprehensive and comprehensible coverage for AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT users including information on the Sheet Set Manager, field command, table tool and the software's other productivity enhancers. If you've never used AutoCAD, the tutorial approach and step-by-step instruction will help you get started right away. If you're an AutoCAD veteran, in-depth explanations of AutoCAD's newest and most advanced features will help you become an AutoCAD expert. Whatever your experience, however you use AutoCAD, you’ll refer to this indispensable resource again and again.

Coverage includes:

Finding your way around the AutoCAD interface

Creating and developing an AutoCAD drawing

Keeping track of your projects with the new sheet set manager

Importing spreadsheets and editing tables with the new Table tool

Updating text automatically with the new field command

Controlling your drawings' printed output

Discovering hidden features

Mastering the 3D modeling and rendering process

Customizing AutoCAD

Linking drawings to databases and spreadsheets

Managing custom symbols

Securing and authenticating your files

Aligning and coordinating Layout views

Using Publish to share files with non-AutoCAD users

Featured on the CD The enclosed CD contains full-featured, 30-day trial versions of AutoCAD 2005, ready for you to install and use alongside the book's tutorials. You'll also find project files (including finished drawings) for all the exercises in the book and general-purpose utilities for better productivity. Plus, you get six bonus chapters on advanced topics such as ActiveX, VBA, and more.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 1200 pages
• Publisher: Sybex (June 11, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782143407
• ISBN-13: 978-0782143409
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 2.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #437,544 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A pleased reader, February 4, 2006

By	David Hoogstad - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As a student in college we get autocad as a course.
I dediced to buy this book in order to go further and deeper into the subject.
This book is huge in size! George Omura offers guidance step by step, explaining most details; (i was pleased with the guidance, had little difficulties understanding even the more advanced topics)

This book is ideal for those wishing to get acquainted to autocad to a fairly advanced level. It offers a very thorough overall knowledge of autocad, suitable to the novice who just started out, climbing up the ladder. The books is composed in a similar way, explaining the basics in the beginning and gradually covering the more advanced topics. Important to mention, is the well organised appearance of the book, containing indexed words, allowing the reader to quickly look up topics by key-words!

For those wishing to go all the way, they probably will need to buy an extra book for advanced items such as advanced customisation and 3D but i am sure Omura can teach even some of the experts out there, as he clearly knows his thing.

It might be fair to say that i was a bit dissapointed to find not more covered about the 3D aspects of Autocad, but i realised later that Omura wrote a seperate book dedicated to explaining autocad's 3D abibilites in detail, which is understandable, knowing that this book alone is over 1000 pages!

I give this book 5 stars, finding the previous 3 stars given, a wrong representation of an excellent book.

5 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A not so deep book, August 27, 2005

By	Fabio Pimenta "Pepef" (S Paulo, Brazil) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The book doesn't go deep into customizing AutoCAD, but gives a complete brief overview for general purpose AutoCAD usage.