Synopses & Reviews
A book designed for novice AutoCAD users that is ideal for independent study. Sykes uses a step-by-step approach and over 1800 graphics to make learning AutoCAD 2000 easy. This book takes a three pronged approach to teaching AutoCAD by integrating print, CD-ROM, and web-based support to create a complete learning system.
FEATURES/BENEFITS
- 120 Do This guided exercises Divided into three columns: Steps, Command Sequence, and Tools.
- Provides users with the step-by-step instructions that explain the task, show it being done, and any tools that might make it easieralong with how the results of the task should appear on the computer screen.
- Visual approachIncludes over 1800 graphics and 100 drawing files.
- Supports text instructions with a generous use of detailed screen shots, actual drawings, and helpful graphics.
- Free Multimedia CD25 drawing tasks are captured as multimedia presentations for review. Presentations are keyed to specific Do This lessons in the text with a CD icon. CD also contains starter-drawing files for the book's lessons.
- Companion Web-site (www.prenhall.com/sykes).
- This accompanying web-site provides a self-assessment tool to test understanding of key concepts. Questions are keyed to half of the Do This exercises and act as online practice quizzes.
- "Extra Steps" sectionIn each lesson.
- Provides users with added features, bits of knowledge, or suggestions for further study to promote learning after covering the basic material.
- Tips and "tricks".
- Helps bring readers fully up to speed with drawing skills, and enhance their understanding of topics.
- Review questions and exercises.
- Reinforces learned material.
- Several independent projects.
- Giving users setup information and encouraging them to refer to previous lessons to complete projects for a variety of disciplines and mastery levels.
- Clear writing style.
Synopsis
With CD-ROM included, this guide features 20 hands-on lessons for beginners with step-by-step instructions and tips, 25 multimedia presentations demonstrating tasks and linked Web site with interactive self-assessment tools.
Synopsis
A text designed for introductory AutoCAD 2002 users that is ideal for either classroom use or independent study. This book takes a three-pronged approach to teaching AutoCAD 2002 by integrating text, CD-ROM, and web-based support to create a complete learning system.
BookIncludes 26 lessons designed to bring you fully up to speed with 2-D drawing and internet capabilities. Lessons are clearly marked for purpose and content, and provide hands-on, step-by-step instructions to help the student master the task. All instructions come in an easy to follow 3-column format labeled Do This!, which clearly presents the task at hand. Lessons contain tips, tricks, projects, and quizzes developed by the author through years of experience as a designer and CAD guru.
CDThis CD continues to provide instruction when you have left the classroom, or are studying on your own. 30 Drawing tasks are captured as multimedia presentations for your review. Each lesson is keyed to a specific section in the text marked with a CD icon. When you review these lessons on your computer, you will see a drawing being created on screen using the steps shown in the text. A voice accompanies the movements and provides audio instruction and reinforcement. In addition, the CD installs easy to find files of all the drawing lessons in the book.
Worldwide WebThis text has an accompanying website that offers a self-assessment tool to test your understanding of important conceptshttp://www.prenhall.com/sykes/. It contains sets of questions keyed to approximately half the lessons in the text which test your understanding of key concepts. Take these quizzes online as practice exams and you will receive immediate feedback on your progress
Synopsis
Master AutoCAD 2000 fast, with this complete, integrated learning system! - 20 hands-on lessons for beginners: step-by-step instructions, expert tips, and "see how it's done" exercises!
- CD-ROM: 25 multimedia presentations demonstrating key AutoCAD tasks, step-by-step -- with expert audio commentary!
- Test your AutoCAD knowledge! Linked Web site with interactive self-assessment tools!
If you want to learn AutoCAD 2000 fast, you'll love AutoCAD 2000 -- One Step at a Time -- Basics, the total integrated system for mastering AutoCAD. You get 20 AutoCAD lessons -- each one filled with hands-on, step-by-step instructions, tips, tricks, and "Do This" exercises that explain the task, show how it's done, and point to any tools that might make the task easier. The accompanying CD-ROM keeps on providing instruction long after you've completed the lessons. You'll find 25 drawing tasks, each captured as a multimedia presentation, so you can watch the drawing created right on screen -- and listen to an expert talk you through the process. You're even linked to an AutoCAD Web site that offers a self-assessment tool designed to help you test your understanding of key concepts. Clear, friendly, and encouraging, AutoCAD 2000 -- One Step at a Time -- Basics integrates text, CD-ROM and web support to deliver one powerful AutoCAD learning system. For everyone who wants to master AutoCAD 2000 quickly and easily.
Timothy Sean Sykes is an instructor at Houston Community College and North Harris College in Houston, TX. He previously spent sixteen years as a designer in the piping, furniture, structural, and display fields.
Synopsis
Book, CD, and web-based support provided creates a complete learning system! - Complete step-by-step approach to each topic gives users a simple, hands-on training tool so they can learn by doing.
- 190 “Do This” guided exercisesDivided into three columns: Steps, Command Sequence, and Tools.
- Exercises are derived from a variety of disciplinesIncluding architecture, petrochemical, mechanical, electrical, decorating, and more.
Designed for the novice, this book is ideal for independent study. A step-by-step approach and over 2,500 graphics are used to prepare readers to work in a 2-dimensional drafting environment. Both book, CD, and web-based support are provided to create a complete learning system. Content changes that reflect the AutoCAD 2002 upgrade includes material for the new AutoCAD user interface, Internet tools, upgrades to existing commands, as well as new problems and new chapters on PaperSpace, Xrefs, OLE, dbConnect. Supports text instructions with a generous use of detailed screen shots, actual drawings, and helpful graphics.
Timothy Sean Sykes has been an instructor at Houston Community College and North Harris College in Houston, TX for the past 7 years. Tim has a degree in secondary education from Lamar University. Prior to teaching, he spent 16 years as a designer in the Piping, Furniture, Structural, and Display fields. Tim has extensive writing experience; he has worked as a freelance writer, published two cookbooks, written a newsletter, published two field guides for edible wild plants, and has written assembly instructions for modular and furniture construction articles.
About the Author
Timothy Sean Sykes has been an instructor at Houston Community College and North Harris College in Houston, TX for the past 7 years. Tim has a degree in secondary education from Lamar University. Prior to teaching, he spent 16 years as a designer in the Piping, Furniture, Structural, and Display fields. Tim has extensive writing experience; he has worked as a freelance writer, published two cookbooks, written a newsletter, published two field guides for edible wild plants, and has written assembly instructions for modular and furniture construction articles.
Table of Contents
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Each chapter concludes with Extra Steps, What Have We Learned, Exercises, and Review Questions.)
I. GETTING STARTED WITH AUTOCAD. Lesson 1: Setup.
The Groundwork: How AutoCAD Handles Scale, Units, and Paper Size. Let's Get Started: The AutoCAD Today Window. Using the Setup Wizard. The Active Assistant and the User Interface. Saving & Leaving a Drawing Session. Opening an Existing Drawing. Partial Open and Partial Load. Creating Templates. Creating a New Drawing Using a Template. Changing the Setup or Starting a New Drawing from Scratch. Lesson 2: Drawing Basics—Lines & Coordinates.
Lines and Rectangles. Fixing the Uh-Ohs—Erase, Undo, & Redo. Multiple Object Selection Made Easy. The Cartesian Coordinate System. Lesson 3: Sharing Your Work with Others.
Getting Input from the Client Before Plotting—AutoCAD's MeetNow. The Old Fashioned Way—Putting it on Paper (Plotting). Sharing Your Drawing with the Plot Command—and No Paper! Sending the Package Over the Internet with eTransmit. Lesson 4: Drawing Aids.
The Simple Stuff—Ortho, Grid, Tacking, and Snap. And Now the Easy Way—Dsettings. Never Miss the Point with OSNAPS. Running OSNAPS. Point Filters & Object Snap Tracking. Isometric Drafting. Lesson 5: Display Controls and Basic Text.
Getting Closer—The Zoom Command. Why Find It Twice—The View Command. Simple Text. Editing Text—The DDEdit Command. Finding & Replacing Text. Adding Flavor to Text with Style. Lesson 6: Geometric Shapes (Other Than Lines and Rectangles!)
Getting Around to Circles. “Squished” Circles and Isometric Circles—The Ellipse Command. Arcs—The Hard Way! Drawing Multisided Figures—The Polygon Command. Putting it all Together.
II. BEYOND THE BASICS. Lesson 7: Adding Flavor to Your Drawings with Layers.
The Simple Command Approach. Color, Linetype, and So Much More—Layers. Sharing Setups—The AutoCAD Design Center and the Layer Translator. The Scenario. Uh Ohs, Boo Boos, A$%$s—The Miracles of CHProp & the Object Property Manager. And Again, the Easy Way to Modify—Matchprop. Lesson 8: Editing Your Drawing—Modification Procedures.
The Change Group. The Location and Number Group. Moving and Copying Objects Between Drawings. Lesson 9: More Complex Lines—Polylines (& Light Weight Polylines).
Using the Pline Command for Wide Lines and Multi-Segmented Lines. The Most Useful of the Most Overlooked: AutoCAD's Inquiry Commands. Editing Polylines: The Pedit Command. Lesson 10: More Editing Tools.
Location and Number. More Commands in the Change Group. Putting it all Together. Lesson 11: Some Useful Drawing Tricks.
Equal or Measured Distances: The Divide and Measure Commands. So Where's the Point? From Outlines to Solids: The Solid and Donut Commands. More Object Selection Methods. Object Selection Filters: Quick Select.
III. SOME MORE ADVANCED TECHNIQUES. Lesson 12. Guidelines & Splines.
Contour Lines with the Spline Command. Change Splines—the Splinedit Command. Guidelines. Lesson 13: Advanced Lines: Multilines.
Many at Once: AutoCAD's Multilines and the Mline Command. Options: The MLStyle Command. Editing Multilines: The MLEdit Command. The Project. Lesson 14: Advanced Text: MText.
AutoCAD's Word Processor: The Multiline Text Editor. Okay I Typed It, but I Don't Know if It's Right!: AutoCAD's Spell Command. Find & Replace. Lesson 15: Basic Dimensioning.
First, Some Terminology. Dimension Creation—Dimension Commands. And Now the Easy Way—Quick Dimensioning (Qdim). Dimension Editing: The Dimedit and DimTedit Commands. Isometric Dimensioning. Lesson 16: Customizing Dimensions.
Creating Dimension Styles: The DDim Command. Try One. Simple Repairs. Lesson 17: Advanced Modification Techniques.
Object Selection Settings. “A Whole New Ball Game!”: Editing with Grips.
IV. RAZZLE DAZZLE. Lesson 18: Hatching & Section Lines.
The Hatch Command. Boundary Hatching. Editing Hatched Areas. Drag-and-Drop Hatching—Using the ADC to Hatch. More Section Help—The Sketch Command. Lesson 19: Many as One—Groups and Blocks.
Paper Dolls—The Group Command. Groups with Backbone—The Block Command. Lesson 20: Advanced Blocks.
Creating Attributes. Inserting Attributed Blocks. Editing Attributes. The Coup de Grace: Using Attribute Information in Bills of Materials, Spreadsheets, or Database Programs.
V. DRAWING DISPLAY AND ARRANGEMENT. Lesson 21: Space for a New Beginning.
Understanding the Terminology. Using Tiled Viewports. Setting Up a Paper Space Environment. Using Floating Viewports. And Now the Easy Way—The LayoutWizard Command. Lesson 22: After the Setup.
Dimensioning and Paper Space. The Benefits of Layers in Paper Space. Using Text in Paper Space. Plotting the Layout. Tweaking the Layout. Putting It All Together—A Project.
VI. AUTOCAD INTERFACES WITH DRAWINGS, IMAGES, AND OTHER PROGRAMS. Lesson 23: Externally Referenced Drawings.
Working with Externally Referenced Drawings—Xrefs. Editing Xrefs. Using Our Drawing as a Reference. Binding an Xref to Your Drawing. Lesson 24: Other Application Files and AutoCAD.
Two Types of Graphics. Working with Raster Images: The Image Manager. Exporting Image Files. Working with Linked Objects—Object Linking and Embedding (OLE). Lesson 25: Databases and AutoCAD.
Databases—A Brief Refresher. Configuring Your Operating System to Share the Database. Linking AutoCAD to the Database—The dbConnect Manager. Okay, I'm Attached—Now How Do I Use the Database? Some Final Bits and Pieces about dbConnect. The Final Word. Afterword: Getting an Edge.
Creating Your Own Hotkeys: The Acad.PGP File. The Z-Direction. Looking Ahead.