AutoCAD 2008 for Dummies

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Название: AutoCAD 2008 for Dummies

Автор: Byrnes David

Издательство: Wiley

Год: 2007

Страниц: 434

ISBN: 9780470116500, 0470116501

Формат: PDF

Размер: 10 Мб

Язык: English

Серия: For Dummies

It's amazing to think that AutoCAD came into being a quarter of a century ago, at a time when most people thought that personal computers weren't carable of industrial-strength tasks like CAD. (The aacronym stands for Computer-Aided Drafting, Computer-Aided Design, or both, depending on whom you talk to.)

What's equally amazing to the grizzled old-timer writing these words is the fact that many of today's hotshot AutoCAD users weren't even born when the program first hit the street! It's almost as amazing that, 25 years after its birth, AutoCAD remains the king of the microcomputer CAD hill by a tall margin. It's conceivable that the long-term future of CAD may belong to special-purpose, 3D-based software such as the Autodesk Inventor and Revit programs, but for the present and the near future anyway, AutoCAD is where the CAD action is.

AutoCAD 2008 provides the tools for doing all these things, but it's not always easy to figure out which hammer to pick up or which nail to bang on first. With this book, you have excellent chance of creating a presentable, usable, printable, and sharable drawing on your first or second try without putting a T square through your computer screen in frustration.

Introduction

AutoCAD 101

Introducing AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT

Le Tour de AutoCAD 2008

A Lap around the CAD Track

Setup for Success

Let There Be Lines

Get Ready to Draw

Where to Draw the Line

Edit for Credit

A Zoom with a View

On a 3D Spree

1f Drawings Could Talk

Text with Character

Entering New Dimensions

Down the Hatch

The Plot Thickens

Share and Share Alike

Playing Blocks and Rasteroids

Drawing on the Internet

The Part of Tens

Ten Ways to Do No Harm

Ten Ways to Swap Drawing Data with Other People and Programs

Index