AutoCAD® 2004: A Building Approach, Book 3: From Concept to Application - Softcover

Metz, Terry D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131135392 ISBN 13: 9780131135390

Publisher: Peachpit Press, 2003

Synopsis

This three-volume series of texts provides a user-friendly, step-by-step approach to learning AutoCAD® 2004. Using a modularized approach that groups related commands and operations together, these books focus on teaching the most efficient method of operation that enables the user to quickly become a productive CAD operator. With real-world application assignments at each module's conclusion and a final project that a new CAD operator might be required to do in an actual employment situation at the end of each book, this series reinforces hands-on study so that students are fully equipped with the practical skills required to succeed in this field.

About this title

About the Author

Terry Metz combines 21 years of practical engineering experience (working as a drafter, application specialist, sales engineer, and engineering consultant) with 14 years of current teaching experience (responsible for both the AutoCAD^® and mechanical engineering programs at a two-year technical college) to provide a sound educational approach to learning AutoCAD^®.

From the Back Cover

The purpose of this book and its companions, AutoCAD® 2004 A Building Approach, Book 1: Learning the Basics and AutoCAD® 2004: A Building Approach, Book 2: Taking Command, is to teach the fundamentals of AutoCAD® 2004 so you can easily make simple, professional engineering drawings. These books have been updated from the AutoCAD® 2002: A Building Approach series to include both the new and revised features found in AutoCAD® 2004.

This book uses the following features to help you build the basic foundation needed to become a successful CAD operator.

• Provides a true step-by-step approach that guides you through the learning process in a friendly and effective way
• Teaches you one efficient method, instead of overwhelming you with multiple ways to do the same thing, so you can quickly become a productive CAD operator
• Takes you from opening the AutoCAD® program for the first time to creating your own personal AutoCAD® template and using it to generate professional engineering drawings
• Teaches you to rise the basic drawing, editing, and text tools in an integrated approach that combines learning-related operations and commands together to make them easier to remember
• Uses practical, real-world assignments in which you apply the concepts you learned to projects that new CAD operators can expect to see in their jobs

Edition details

• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131135392
• ISBN 13: 9780131135390
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240