AutoCAD 2002 Suggested Book List

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AutoCAD 2002: No Experience Required is your step-by-step introduction to the latest version of AutoCAD, the drafting and design program that has become the industry standard in architecture, landscaping, engineering, and construction. Inside, practical examples and straightforward explanations show you exactly what you need to know to create, develop, and complete a sophisticated AutoCAD project.

Gain the AutoCAD Skills That Matter Most

• Finding your way around AutoCAD
• Understanding basic commands
• Applying AutoCAD's coordinate systems
• Setting up a drawing
• Mastering drawing strategies
• Accessing right-click context menus
• Employing Polar and Object Snap Tracking
• Setting up layers, colors, and linetypes
• Using blocks and Wblocks
• Dragging AutoCAD objects from one drawing to another
• Generating elevations
• Working with hatches and fills
• Controlling text in a drawing
• Dimensioning a drawing
• Managing external references
• Using layouts and printing an AutoCAD drawing
• Sharing drawings on the Internet
• Viewing 3D models dynamically with 3D Orbit
• Rendering a 3D model
• Setting up attributes

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The purpose of this informative, user-friendly book is to teach the fundamentals of using AutoCAD 2002 to make simple but professional engineering drawings. Designed to teach the most efficient methods of using the AutoCAD program, this book uses a step-by-step approach, enabling users to learn the quickly and easily. This book will take the user from opening the AutoCAD program for the very first time to being able to efficiently use the basic commands to setting-up, drawing, and printing drawings. It covers different techniques for putting lines on a drawing and drawing specific shapes such as rectangles, circles, arcs, and ellipses. It also covers different types of engineering units and their use in engineering. For any individual who needs to become a proficient AutoCAD operator.

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As the AutoCAD Technical Evangelist, Lynn Allen is uniquely qualified to guide you to maximum productivity with AutoCAD 2002. She has distilled eight years of her 'Circle and Lines' column from CADENCE magazine to show you the path to AutoCAD enlightenmen

Make everyday work faster, easier and more productive! Renowned columnist Lynn Allen explains difficult concepts with technical insight and her trademark humor, leading you to in-depth AutoCAD mastery. This extensively illustrated book goes from fundamental concepts through increasingly complex features, leading to maximum AutoCAD proficiency.

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The AutoCAD 2002 Bible will show you how to master the complexities of the world's most popular technical drawing program. This book covers everything you will ever need to know about AutoCAD, from fundamental commands to AutoLISP programming. You will also learn new techniques for creating high-quality 2D drawings, discover enhanced capabilities for 3D rendering, modeling, and shading. And you can customize AutoCAD to fit the way they work.

The AutoCAD 2002 Bible covers product enhancements first introduced with the AutoCAD 2000i interim software, including internet-driven design capabilities. Find out how you can now publish to the Web and collaborate with designers and customers on line. Also included is a loaded CD-ROM with more than 160 source and final drawings used in the examples and tutorials used throughout the book. In addition, you get more than 40 shareware and freeware programs, extensive parts and symbols libraries, and a complete third-party software reference guide.

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