AutoCAD 2009 and AutoCAD LT 2009: No Experience Required | 
| Author: Jon Mcfarland
Publisher: Sybex
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 818
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.2 x 1.8
ISBN: 0470260580
Dewey Decimal Number: 620.00420285536
EAN: 9780470260586
Publication Date: April 28, 2008
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AutoCAD 2009 and AutoCAD LT 2009: No Experience Required is the perfect step-by-step introduction to the very latest version of the world's leading CAD software. It provides concise explanations and practical tutorials that clearly show you how to plan and develop a customized AutoCAD project. Follow the tutorials sequentially or just jump in at any chapter by downloading the drawing files from the companion website. Either way, you'll master AutoCAD features, get a thorough grounding in the essentials, and see quick results.
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plenty for a beginner June 28, 2008
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
Is there anything McFarland has left out about AutoCad 2009? Apparently not, at least for the newbie. As the cover prominently says, no experience needed. The book comprehensively covers what the novice might want. Explaining in detailed steps such basics as setting up a drawing, laying out walls of a building, and the use of layers. The latter is significant. For layering lets you decompose your design process into manageable parts. If you have perhaps used Adobe's Photoshop and its layering, then the idea transfers over readily.
The chapters also end in suggestions for exercises, so that you can integrate each chapter's lessons into your understanding. The exercises are not that extensive, so you may have to push yourself into devising more problems if you feel the need.
I should add that the text applies AutoCad to the designing of a building. Other important usages include designing consumer products. But the book stays on topic with architecture.
By the way, for non-US readers, the examples in the book all use imperial measurements. But you can trivially change the Autocad settings to use metric.
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