Workplace Skills for Success with AutoCAD 2011 Basics

by Koser, Gary; Zirwas, Dean; Autodesk

• ISBN13: 9780132150804
• ISBN10: 0132150808
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-07
• Publisher: Peachpit Press

Summary

With a focus on fundamental skill development,AutoCAD Workskills for Success with AutoCAD 2011- Basicsis designed around the "Draw-Modify-Dimension-Print" cycle and focuses on the drawing skills needed to produce 2 dimensional drawings. Taking a layered learning approach, it builds skills gradually rather than overwhelming readers immediately with numerous commands or procedures. Projects, assignments, examples and tutorials draw from the fields of architecture, mechanical engineering and civil engineering. Complete with an instructorrs"s resource disk and student companion website, the text emphasizes both knowledge and productivity as the means for being successful in the workplace.

Table of Contents

Unit 1 AutoCAD Introduction and Overview

Unit 2 Creating and Working with AutoCAD Files

Unit 3 Fundamental Drawing and Modifying Commands

Unit 4 Fundamental Viewing and Inquiry Commands

Unit 5 Elementary Dimensioning

Unit 6 Fundamentals of the Printing Process

Unit 7 Intermediate Drawing and Modifying

Unit 8 Fundamentals of Layers, Groups, and Blocks

Unit 9 Editing with Grips

Unit 10 Parametric Constraints

Unit 11 Tables, Cells, and Fields Fundamentals

Unit 12 More about AutoCAD Screens and Commands