Exercise Workbook for Beginning AutoCAD

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Industrial Press Inc., 2004 - Computers - 400 pages
AutoCAD 2005 30-Day Trial Version included on the enclosed CD-ROM. Completely updated for AutoCAD 2005 and 2005 LT software, this workbook is ideal for classroom instruction or as a self-study tutorial. Providing only what you need without all of the jargon, it includes 30 lessons with step by step instructions followed by exercises des... more igned for practicing the commands learned within the lesson. Each lesson starts very simple and progresses to more complex. The approach taken is to familiarize users with the drawing commands first, and then teach users to create their own setup drawings. Each lesson is explained clearly and in a non-intimidating manner.

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Contents

Opening a Template
2-4
Palettes 210
2-10
Starting a new drawing 215
2-15
Rectangle
3-5
Lesson 8
3-8
Object snap
4-4
Ellipse
5-3
Single line text
5-8
Exercises 1613
16-16
Erase 213
17-2
Angular dimensionig 184
18-5
Lesson 20
20-2
Lesson 22
22-1
Fillet
22-7
Lesson 24
24-1
Lesson 26
26-2

Move
6-6
Multiline text
8-1
Coordinate input
9-3
Exercises
9-10
Lesson 10
9-16
Lesson 12
12-1
Lesson 7
12-7
Array 132
13-4
Lesson 14
13-11
Copy
13-17
Gradient Fills 157
15-6
True Associative Dimensioning 162
16-3
How to create a page setup for Paperspace 2611
26-15
Exercises 197
26-19
Lesson
27-2
How DSF affects Text 278
27-11
Exercises 2713
27-27
Presetting the Insertion Point Scale or Rotation 285
28-5
Lesson 29
29-1
Lesson 30
30-1
APPENDIX
A-1
Chamfer
8-7
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Cheryl Shrock is a retired Professor and Chairperson of Computer Aided Design at Orange Coast College in California. She developed the world-reknowned AutoCADĀ® Exercise Workbooks for classroom and self-study use as a result of both her teaching skills and extensive industry experience. An acclaimed AutoCAD expert, she is an AutodeskĀ® registered author.