AutoCAD 2018: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users

AutoCAD 2018: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users

<b><i>AutoCAD 2018: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users</i></b> textbook is designed for instructor-led courses as well as for self-paced learning. This book is intended to help engineers, designers, and CAD operators interested in learning AutoCAD for creating engineering and architectural 2D drawings. It can be a great starting point for new AutoCAD users and a great teaching aid in classroom training. This textbook consists of 12 chapters, covering Drafting & Annotation environment of AutoCAD, which teaches you how to use AutoCAD software to create, edit, plot, and manage real world engineering and architectural drawings.<br> <br>This textbook not only focuses on the usage of the tools/commands of AutoCAD but also on the concept of design. Every chapter of this book contains tutorials, intended to help users to experience how things can do in AutoCAD step-by-step. Moreover, every chapter ends with hands-on test drives that allow the users of this textbook to experience themselves the ease-of-use and robust capabilities of AutoCAD.<br> <br>Table of Contents: <br>Chapter 1. Introduction to AutoCAD <br>Chapter 2. Creating Drawings - I <br>Chapter 3. Using Drawing Aids and Selection Methods <br>Chapter 4. Creating Drawings - II <br>Chapter 5. Modifying and Editing Drawings - I <br>Chapter 6. Working with Dimensions and Dimensions Style <br>Chapter 7. Editing Dimensions and Adding Text <br>Chapter 8. Modifying and Editing Drawings - II <br>Chapter 9. Hatching and Gradients <br>Chapter 10. Working with Blocks and Xrefs <br>Chapter 11. Working with Layouts <br>Chapter 12. Printing and Plotting <br>Student Projects