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This comprehensive resource- widely used in industry and in the classroom- features detailed explanations of AutoCAD 2009 commands, enabling users to take maximum advantage of Autodesk's newest and most essential software features. Carefully organized to progress from the rudiments of AutoCAD to the important concepts of 3D modeling and customization, this book caters to the basic needs of beginners as well as to the advanced requirements of industry professionals.

Sham Tickoo is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Purdue University Calumet, in Hammond, Indiana.


Introduction to AutoCAD
Getting Started with AutoCAD
Starting With the Advanced Sketching
Working with Drawing Aids
Editing Sketched Objects-I
Editing Sketched Objects-II
Creating Text and Tables
Basic Dimensioning, Geometric Dimensioning, and Tolerancing
Editing Dimensions
Dimension Styles and Dimensioning System Variables
Model Space Viewports, Paper Space Viewports, and Layouts
Plotting Drawings
Hatching Drawings
Working with Blocks

Defining Block Attributes
Understanding External References
Working with Advanced Drawing Options
Grouping and Advanced Editing of Sketched Objects
Working With Data Exchange and Object Linking and Embedding
Technical Drawing With AutoCAD
Isometric Drawings
The User Coordinate System
Getting Started with 3D
Creating Solid Models
Modifying 3D Objects
Editing and Dynamic Viewing of 3D Objects
Rendering and Animating Designs
Accessing External Database
AutoCAD on the Internet AutoCAD

Template Drawings
Script Files and Slide Shows
Creating Linetypes and Hatch Patterns
Customizing the ACAD.PGP Files Student Projects
Index
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AutoCAD 2008 : A Problem-Solving Approach

AutoCAD 2008 : A Problem-Solving Approach

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