Autocad 2015 and AutoCAD LT 2015 Essentials

by Scott Onstott

Essentials is a unique learning resource that features concise, straightforward explanations and real-world, hands-on exercises and tutorials to teach new users the software's core features and functions. Each chapter opens with a quick discussion of concepts and learning goals and then briskly moves into an approachable hands-on exercise that readers can follow to gain confidence using the software. Each chapter features compelling full-color screenshots to illustrate tutorial steps and chapters conclude with a related and more open-ended project to further reinforce the chapter's lessons. Readers can download starting and ending files for the exercises and additional learning tutorials so that they can start anywhere in the book and compare their results with the pro's. Getting started basic drawing skills using drawing aids editing entities shaping curves controlling object visibility and appearance organizing objects hatching and gradients working with blocks and xrefs creating and editing text dimensioning keeping in control with constraints working with layouts and annotative objects printing and plotting working with data navigating 3d models modeling in 3d presenting and documenting 3d design

416 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

I am an author, filmmaker, designer, developer, and artist, but mostly a passionate teacher.