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AutoCAD 2007 is a premiere computer-aided designing program that lets you organize the objects you draw, their properties, and their files. It also helps you create great-looking models. But it’s not always easy to figure out how to perform these functions, and many users end up missing out on AutoCAD’s full potential.

AutoCAD 2007 For Dummies will show you how to perform these tasks and more! This hands-on guide lets you discover how to navigate around all the complications and start creating cool drawings in no time. Soon you’ll have the tools you need to use DWG, set up drawings, add text, and work with lines, as well as:

• Draw a base plate with rectangles and circles
• Organize a successful template
• Zoom and pan with glass and hand
• Use the AutoCAD design center
• Navigate through your 3-D drawing projects
• Plot layout, lineweights, and colors
• Design block definitions
• Slice and dice your drawings to create new designs
• Create a Web format using AutoCAD

This book also features suggestions and tips on how to touch up your creations as well as ways to swap drawing data with other people and programs. Written in a friendly, straightforward tone that doesn’t try to overwhelm you, AutoCAD 2007 For Dummies shows you the fun and easy way to draw precise 2-D and 3-D drawings!

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The World's Bestselling AutoCAD Resource Now Fully Updated for the 2007 Release

There's a reason why Mastering AutoCAD is so popular year after year. Loaded with concise explanations, step-by-step instructions, and hands-on projects, this comprehensive reference and tutorial from award-winning author George Omura has everything you need to become an AutoCAD expert.

If you're new to AutoCAD, the tutorials will help you build your skills right away. If you're an AutoCAD veteran, Omura's in-depth explanations of the latest and most advanced features, including all the new 3D tools, will turn you into an AutoCAD pro. Whatever your experience level and however you use AutoCAD, you'll refer to this indispensable reference again and again.

Coverage Includes

• Creating and developing AutoCAD drawings
• Drawing curves and applying solid fills
• Effectively using hatches, fields, and tables
• Manipulating dynamic blocks and attributes
• Linking drawings to databases and spreadsheets
• Keeping track of your projects with the Sheet Set Manager
• Creating cutaway and x-ray views to show off the interior of your 3D model
• Rendering realistic interior views with natural lighting
• Giving a hand-drawn look to 3D views
• Easily creating complex, free-form 3D shapes in minutes
• Making spiral forms with the Helix and Sweep tools
• Exploring your model in real time with the Walk and Fly tools
• Creating animated AVI files of your 3D projects
• Customizing AutoCAD using AutoLISP(r)
• Securing and authenticating your files
• Sharing files with non-AutoCAD users

Featured on the CD

Load the trial version of AutoCAD 2007 and get started on the lessons in the book. The CD also includes project files and finished drawings for all the book's exercises, a symbols library, a 2D and 3D parts library, and extra utilities to increase your productivity. Advance your skills even more with bonus chapters on VBA, Active X, architectural solid modeling, and working with external databases.

"Mastering AutoCAD 2007 has been fully updated to cover all of AutoCAD 2007's new or enhanced features including modeling, visual styles, lights and materials, rendering and animation, and changes users asked for in commonly used commands. This excellent revision to the bestselling Mastering AutoCAD series features concise explanations, focused examples, step-by-step instructions, and hands-on projects for both AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT."
—Eric Stover, AutoCAD Product Manager

"Omura's explanations are concise, his graphics are excellent, and his examples are practical."
—CADalyst

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

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Popular among both novice and experienced AutoCAD users, this comprehensive book begins with an overview of the basics of AutoCAD, such as creating drawings, using commands, and specifying coordinates. Coverage becomes more in-depth as each chapter builds off the previous one, with discussions of 2D and 3D drawing techniques, using layers, creating dimensions, 3D coordinates, and rendering. Youll learn to customize commands and toolbars; program AutoCAD using AutoLISP and VBA; and review AutoCAD LT. A "Quick Start" will have beginners creating a CAD drawing on their first day. The accompanying CD-ROM provides before-and-after real-world drawings, bonus appendices, freeware and shareware programs, the book in searchable PDF format, and a 30-day trial version of AutoCAD software.

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There's an old adage in the world of teachers, "Tell 'em what you're gonna tell 'em; Tell 'em; Tell 'em what you told 'em!" That's our approach - except that we add a step. After we "tell 'em", we SHOW 'EM with over 200 Step-by-Step exercises. Our students tell us that "it's like having an instructor standing next to us." This text includes everything you'll need to become fluent in two-dimensional AutoCAD and prepare you for lucrative employment in a host of design fields. And it leaves you with a firm foundation for stepping confidently into the exciting future with 3D AutoCAD: One Step at a Time!

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AutoCAD 2007: One Step at a Time includes everything you'll need to know to get started using the world's most popular design program. Newly redesigned for the economy and ease-of-use of our readers, our instructional approach is still the one demanded in dozens of AutoCAD training programs. The author's friendly style and mastery of the material makes readers and students alike feel as though he's sitting at their elbow while they work. "AutoCAD should be a fun learning experience!" insists Sykes. The 2007 text has been fully updated as well as being reformatted in our continuing effort to reduce the cost to readers. No more Parts I and II - you'll find all the instructional material in a single volume. Additionally, the eBook is in full color and IS PRINTABLE! That's right - now you can print a copy of the most popular AutoCAD training program in full color!

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This manual is designed to be used during instructor led training in an eight week class. This is a basic training course for new AutoCAD users. It is geared for students with little or no prior experience using AutoCAD. The course will cover fundamental skills necessary for effectively using AutoCAD and will provide a strong foundation for advancement.

Table of Contents

1. The AutoCAD Environment
2. Zooming and Panning
3. Drawing Lines
4. Toolbars and Profiles
5. Draw and Modify Commands
6. Dimensions
7. Object Properties
8. Drafting Settings and Object Snaps
9. Titleblocks and Templates
10. Text Tools
11. Viewports and Layouts

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This textbook starts with a basic introduction to AutoCAD 2007 and then begins a house floor plan. Using step-by-step tutorial lessons, the residential project is followed through to create elevations, sections, details, etc. Throughout the project, new AutoCAD commands are covered at the appropriate time. Focus is placed on the most essential parts of a command rather than an exhaustive review of every sub-feature of a particular command.

Table of Contents

1. GETTING STARTED WITH AUTOCAD 2007
2. CRASH COURSE INTRODUCTION (The Basics)
3. DRAWING ARCHITECTURAL OBJECTS (Draw & Modify)
4. Residential Project: FLOOR PLANS
5. Residential Project: EXTERIOR ELEVATIONS
6. Residential Project: SECTIONS
7. Residential Project: Plan Layout & Interior Elevations
8. Residential Project: Site Plan
9. Residential Project: Schedules & Sheet Setup
10. Residential Project: Lineweights & Plotting
11. Appendix A: Introduction to 3D Modeling

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Your guide to Essential AutoCAD Techniques


In this newest edition of his indispensable book, bestselling AutoCAD author and expert George Omura offers a practical and comprehensive guide to help you easily and efficiently learn the basics of AutoCAD. His straightforward explanations and task-based approach--thoroughly updated for AutoCAD 2007 and AutoCAD LT 2007--make this practical book more valuable than ever.

Whether you're new to AutoCAD or just looking for a quick refresher, you'll find the authoritative instruction you need. Become familiar with all the drafting tools of AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT and learn how to:
* Master the basics of drawing and editing in AutoCAD
* Create 3D models and use the new modeling tools
* Add and edit notes and dimensions
* Understand the fundamentals of 2D drawing
* Get organized with layers, blocks, groups, and external references
* Find areas and distances quickly
* Extract hidden data
* Set up AutoCAD to work with your printer

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