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AutoCAD® 2010 For Dummies®
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AutoCAD® 2010 For Dummies®

by David Byrnes
May 2009
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
11h 8m
English
For Dummies

Overview

AutoCAD is the hot computer-aided design software known for both its powerful tools and its complexity. AutoCAD 2010 for Dummies is the bestselling guide that walks you through this complicated program so you can build complex 3D technical drawings, edit like a pro, enter new dimensions, and plot with style.

AutoCAD 2010 for Dummies helps you navigate the program, use the AutoCAD Design Center, create a basic layout and work with dimension, and put your drawings on the Internet. You’ll soon be setting up the AutoCAD environment, using the AutoCAD Ribbon, creating annotation and dimension drawings, exploring 3D models, and cruising comfortably through AutoCAD 2010.

  • Understand object selection and learn all about commanding and selecting, one-by-one selection, and perfecting selecting

  • Use the AutoCAD tool kit and learn to copy between drawings, manipulate images, and polish your properties

  • Turn on your annotative objects and say more in multiline text

  • Understand the anatomy of a dimension, then draw and edit your own

  • Get up to speed on how to create block definitions, insert blocks, and more

  • Discover techniques for setting up a layout in paper space

  • Push the boundary of hatch and define hatch objects

  • Learn to design in Web format and draw on the Internet

With AutoCAD, the only limits are your imagination. AutoCAD 2010 for Dummies prepares you to use this powerful software to design and document your ideas in 2D and 3D.

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