Product Description

This booklet is addressed to all those who want to learn quickly how to use AutoCAD. The booklet refers to the latest versions of the programme. The tutorials take you through the most important drawing elements from 2D to 3D and visualising. The tutorials are arranged as step-by-step exercises and are based on prefixed drawing settings. You can draw the drawing files applied in the tutorials from the Internet. Fundamental: Circles; Lines; Object snaps; Multiple parallel lines; Arcs; Linetypes; Layers; Hatching; Polyline; 3D revolved solid Intermediate: Dimensions; Text and text styles; Blocks and arrays; Defining and editing attributes; Advanced: Lights; Scenes and materials; Paper space; Model space; Xrefs.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #90248 in Books
• Published on: 2000-10-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 84 pages

From the Publisher
Usefull tutorials
AutoCAD Tutorials Release 14· 2000· 2000i

The booklet is addressed to all those who want to learn quickly how to use AutoCAD. The booklet refers to the latests versions of the programme. The tutorials take you through the most important drawing elements from 2D to 3D and visualizing. The tutorials are arranged as step by step excercises and are based on prifixed drawing settings. You can draw the drawing files applied in the tutorials from the Internet.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Frede Uhrskov is a very experienced teacher and instructor in AutoCAD. He has focused on teaching and writting about AutoCAD for 15 years now. With over 30 titles about AutoCAD he has become Scandinavian’s leading author in the field. His books are well known as easy - to - understand and student - friendly. Frede Uhrskov is moreover an authorised AutoCAD dealer and a member of ADN (Autodesk Developer Network

About the Author
Frede Uhrskov is a very experienced teacher and instructor in AutoCAD. He has focused on teaching and writing about AutoCAD for 19 years now. With over 100 titles about AutoCAD he has become Scandinavian's leading author in the field. His books are well known as easy - to - understand and student - friendly. Frede Uhrskov is moreover member of ADN (Autodesk Developer Network).

Customer Reviews

Not Bad, Could Be Better
T
his book is OK. It is what is says it is. Tutorials.

There are 10 leasons within the book which take you through some basic drawings to quite comple 3D work. However, the tutorials come with 10 preset drawings, which need to be downloaded from a web site. This in itself is not a problem.

However, there seems to be little reference to the reasons why and how drawings are set up. How they relate to scales and printing. There is a lot done for you, and, whilst this book does teach some good basic functions, I feel somewhat cheated by using templates that have been set up for me.

Leaves my understanding of how AutoCAD really works a little vague

All in all, it is a good book. But don't expect too much.

AutoCAD by numbers
It's difficult to say how much you can get from repeating the examples in this manual. The approach is very much 'painting by number', where the reader repeats each task as laid out by the author. This will give you a basic route into AutoCAD, giving you the 'how to' approach, but will not teach you why. This therefore makes the learning very superficial if not complimented with further teaching.

Fred's tutorial files are no longer available online, but he was quite willing to send them to me after I emailed him. For which I thank him. But anyone wanting to learn AutoCAD will probably need something a little larger and more constructive to help them.

Autocad Tutorials
Autocad is potentially a complex package and this is a highly recommended book which makes learning the product far easier though it's step-by-step approach.
No assumptions are made in regard to the readers previous knowledge and each tutorial builds on knowledge gained from the previous. I would highly recommend this book and certainly going to be watching out for others from this author!