Recommended AutoCAD 14 Books

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AutoCAD 14: No Experience Required is an introduction to the basic features and commands of AutoCAD as they are used in computer-aided architectural drafting. The essential fourteen skills are presented as an on-going tutorial in which the reader is guided through the steps necessary to create a floor plan, elevations, and other drawings that illustrate a small cabin. As you move from skill to skill, you develop this set of drawings and learn, eventually, how to dimension, place text in a drawing, link external references and print from Paper Space. An introduction to the concepts and techniques for drawing in 3D is presented in the appendix.

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Applying AutoCAD®: A Step-By-Step Approach ©1998 is a work-text based on the AutoCAD Release 14 computer-aided drafting and design software. It's fully compatible with personal computers running Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 95.

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This clear, accessible AutoCAD training manual was designed to aid those who know little about the operation of the AutoCAD software used to create 2-dimensional CAD graphics. It reviews the fundamentals of AutoCAD software operation, basing information on a systems approach that is generic in nature and reaches beyond engineering and architectural drawings. Throughout the book, the author defines and explains the terms and techniques most commonly used in creating, editing, displaying, and printing/plotting drawings, reinforcing a solid foundation in the basic concepts and illustrating how these concepts can be applied to a particular area of expertise.

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AutoCAD R14 Fundamentals is the perfect resource for new AutoCAD users. This well organized and easy-to-use text not only provides you with an understanding of AutoCAD R14's core features and basic CAD concepts, it also helps you to apply that knowledge with practical hands-on exercises. (AutoCAD R14 demonstrations and exercise drawing files are included on an accompanying CD-ROM.)

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Everything architects need to master AutoCAD(r)'s exciting modeling and rendering features.

When it comes to modeling and rendering with AutoCAD R13 and R14, this user-friendly book/CD package makes it easy to generate outstanding results. While it equips AutoCAD novices with the knowledge and skills required to create polished architectural drawings, models, and renderings, it also offers experienced AutoCAD users the information they need to use all of the program's outstanding new modeling, rendering, and animation features.

Rather than just explaining how the software works, Branko Kolarevic guides you step by step through increasingly complex exercises built around Andrea Palladio's Renaissance masterpiece, "Villa Rotonda." Coverage is divided into four sections covering 2-D drawing, 3-D modeling, rendering, and animation. Each section begins with an introduction to key theoretical concepts that is followed by a series of skill-building tutorials demonstrating these principles in action.

To help shorten the AutoCAD learning curve even further, the enclosed CD-ROM provides a library of all of the drawing, modeling, rendering, and animation steps detailed in the book. The CD is flexibly designed to allow users the freedom to focus on the supplied tutorials or to create their own designs based on the techniques described in the book.

Together, this book and the accompanying CD-ROM give architects and students the ability to explore the full potential of the most popular architectural CAD software in use today.

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