AutoCAD 2024: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users

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CADArtifex, Sandeep Dogra, John Willis

• Publisher: CADArtifex
• eBook ISBN:
  9789394074118
• Year: 2023

AutoCAD 2024: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users textbook is designed for instructor-led courses as well as for self-paced learning. It is intended to help engineers, designers, and CAD operators interested in learning AutoCAD for creating 2D engineering drawings as well as 3D Models. This textbook is a great help for new AutoCAD users and a great teaching aid for classroom training. The textbook consists of 13 chapters, and a total of 548 pages covering major workspaces of AutoCAD such as Drafting & Annotation and 3D Modeling, teaching you to use AutoCAD software for creating, editing, plotting, and managing real-world 2D engineering drawings and 3D Models.This textbook not only focuses on the usage of the tools/commands of AutoCAD but also on the concept of design. Every chapter of this textbook contains tutorials that provide users with step-by-step instructions on how to easily create mechanical designs and drawings. Moreover, every chapter ends with hands-on test drives allowing users to experience AutoCAD's user-friendly and powerful capabilities.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction to AutoCADChapter 2. Creating Drawings - IChapter 3. Working with Drawing Aids and LayersChapter 4. Creating Drawings - IIChapter 5. Modifying and Editing Drawings - IChapter 6. Working with Dimensions and Dimensions StyleChapter 7. Editing Dimensions and Adding TextChapter 8. Modifying and Editing Drawings - IIChapter 9. Hatching and GradientsChapter 10. Working with Blocks and XrefsChapter 11. Working with LayoutsChapter 12. Printing and PlottingChapter 13. Introducing 3D Basics and Creating 3D Models

Table of contents

• AutoCAD 2024: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• How to Download Online Resources
• How to Contact the Author
• Chapter 1: Introduction to AutoCAD
• Chapter 2: Creating Drawings - I
• Chapter 3: Working with Drawing Aids and Layers
• Chapter 4: Creating Drawings - II
• Chapter 5: Modifying and Editing Drawings - I
• Chapter 6: Working with Dimensions and Dimension Styles
• Chapter 7: Editing Dimensions and Adding Text
• Chapter 8: Modifying and Editing Drawings - II
• Chapter 9: Creating Hatches and Gradients
• Chapter 10: Working with Blocks and Xrefs
• Chapter 11: Working with Layouts
• Chapter 12: Printing and Plotting
• Chapter 13: Introducing 3D Basics and Creating 3D Models
• INDEX
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