Whether you are a beginning CADD user who needs to get up and running fast or an experienced operator exploring the latest in customization tools, you'll find that this new edition of Harnessing AutoCAD is the essential resource for AutoCAD 2000! Its comprehensive coverage of AutoCAD fundamentals is fully updated to all the new tools introduced in AutoCAD 2000. Utilizing a skill-based command progression - Harnessing AutoCAD 2000 covers fundamental commands and concepts in-depth through numerous step by step project exercises, preparing users to master the more advanced design powers of AutoCAD 2000. If you only need one AutoCAD resource - this is the one!
About the Author, Thomas A. Stellman,G.V. Krishnan
Thomas A. Stellman conducts AutoLISP seminars, has published in Cadence magazine, and recently retired as project coordinator for a state-of-the-art engineering firm. The author of Delmar's Practical AutoLISP, he has been teaching for more than 20 years.
G. V. Krishnan is Director of the Applied Business & Technology Center at the University of Houston (Downtown). He has been teaching basic through advanced AutoCAD courses for than 20 years at one of the nation's largest authorized Autodesk Training Centers.
Using a skill-based command progression, the guide first demonstrates fundamental commands and concepts through step by step project exercises. The next set of intermediate topics features dimensioning, plotting and printing, hatching and boundaries, blocks and attributes, external references, drawing environments, utility commands, scripts and slides, 3D, and the digitizing tablet. Two advanced chapters cover customizing AutoCAD 2000, and Visual LISP. The CD-ROM contains a 30 day trial version of AutoCAD 2000. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)