INTRODUCTION

The year 2012 marks the 30th anniversary of the first version of AutoCAD. AutoCAD's staying power is legendary in the ever-changing software industry. You can rest assured that spending the time learning AutoCAD is a wise investment and the skills you obtain here will be useful for years to come.

I wish to personally welcome you in beginning the process of learning AutoCAD. It will give you great satisfaction to learn such a complex program and use it to design and document whatever you dream up. You'll find step-by-step tutorials that reveal a wide variety of techniques built on many years of real-world experience.

The first 14 chapters apply to both AutoCAD 2012 and AutoCAD LT 2012. LT is Autodesk's lower-cost version of AutoCAD ...

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