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Workplace Skills for Success with AutoCAD 2011: Basics
- By Gary Koser, Dean Zirwas, Autodesk
- Published Jun 7, 2010 by Peachpit Press.
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About
Features
This text is appropriate for Introductory courses in AutoCAD.
With a focus on fundamental skill development, AutoCAD Workskills for Success with AutoCAD 2011- Basics is designed around the "Draw-Modify-Dimension-Print" cycle and focuses on the drawing skills needed to produce 2 dimensional drawings. Taking a layered learning approach, it builds skills gradually rather than overwhelming readers immediately with numerous commands or procedures. Projects, assignments, examples and tutorials draw from the fields of architecture, mechanical engineering and civil engineering. Complete with an instructor’s resource disk and student companion website, the text emphasizes both knowledge and productivity as the means for being successful in the workplace.
HALLMARK FEATURES
Focuses on basic drawing skills–needed to produce 2 dimensional drawings.
- Emphasizes basic draw, modify, dimension and plot skills so students can quickly begin to produce and complete fundamental drawings.
- Gives students confidence and makes topics easy to find.
Uses a layered learning approach–throughout the text.
- Builds knowledge gradually so students gain the fundamentals needed to create basic drawings and then develop an advanced understanding of each area.
- Makes learning manageable, instead of overwhelming the reader immediately with numerous commands and procedures.
Offers a workplace orientation–which serves as a framework for the text.
- Moves from basic commands to more powerful commands based on workplace drawing experiences.
- Uses exercises and tutorials to develop a true understanding of the fundamental skills needed to be successful in the workplace.
Emphasizes applications to architecture, mechanical engineering and civil engineering–throughout the text.
- Contains discipline specific sample drawings, exercises, examples and tutorials to make material more meaningful to the student.
- Gives instructors a chance to select the examples most appropriate for their course, their students’ majors and their students’ learning styles.
Description
- Copyright 2011
- Dimensions: 8-1/2" x 10-7/8"
- Pages: 432
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-215080-8
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-215080-4
With a focus on fundamental skill development, AutoCAD Workskills for Success with AutoCAD 2011- Basics is designed around the "Draw-Modify-Dimension-Print" cycle and focuses on the drawing skills needed to produce 2 dimensional drawings. Taking a layered learning approach, it builds skills gradually rather than overwhelming readers immediately with numerous commands or procedures. Projects, assignments, examples and tutorials draw from the fields of architecture, mechanical engineering and civil engineering. Complete with an instructor’s resource disk and student companion website, the text emphasizes both knowledge and productivity as the means for being successful in the workplace.
Sample Content
Table of Contents
Unit 1 AutoCAD Introduction and Overview
Unit 2 Creating and Working with AutoCAD Files
Unit 3 Fundamental Drawing and Modifying Commands
Unit 4 Fundamental Viewing and Inquiry Commands
Unit 5 Elementary Dimensioning
Unit 6 Fundamentals of the Printing Process
Unit 7 Intermediate Drawing and Modifying
Unit 8 Fundamentals of Layers, Groups, and Blocks
Unit 9 Editing with Grips
Unit 10 Parametric Constraints
Unit 11 Tables, Cells, and Fields Fundamentals
Unit 12 More about AutoCAD Screens and Commands