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Alf Yarwood's best-selling text provides a comprehensive, step-by-step introduction to the latest release of AutoCAD. It covers all the requirements of City and Guilds courses in Computer Aided Design, Computer Aided Engineering and the drawing modules in BTEC Higher and National Higher Engineering. After beginning with the basic principles and an introduction to 2D technical drawing, he continues with extensive coverage of all 3D topics such as 3D solid modelling and rendering, taking into account all the new features of the 2011 AutoCAD software. The full-colour, clear presentation makes this the best choice for all beginning students of AutoCAD.- Accompanied by a comprehensive website with worked solutions, further exercises and multiple choice questions and answers
- A step-by-step approach using extensive full colour illustrations and screen shots throughout
- Written by a prominent AutoCAD author who is a member of the Autodesk Developer Network
REVIEWS
This review is from: Introduction to AutoCAD 2011 (Paperback)I'm only half through this book and have done all of the exercises in it so far. It covers most of what you need to know in order to get good at autocad. The author has good examples of how to use the functions and has written it in a clean style with plenty of illustrations.
As I started doing some of the exercises I noticed that it had many typos and errors in it. This annoyed me a lot since I had wasted a lot of time doing an exercise and then finding out it turned out incorrect because there was an error in the book. And these errors come very often and will leave you scratching your head once or twice. This is a shame since it's such a good book in all other aspects. But the typos really made me wish I had chosen another book to work with.
The exercises also leave you having to do a lot of guesswork with the dimensions of objects. Many objects aren't clearly dimensioned in the exercises so I guess you're supposed to approximate them yourself, this can be quite annoying at times and make it impossible to recreate the figures exactly. But if you simply do the exercises to learn how to use the tools and not so much to create perfect copies of the figures you're given, then it's good.
Also, if you're European, a lot of exercises are in feet and inches, and it's also written to an american audience, so if you want something more specialized for where you live, try looking at books in your own language first unless you don't mind doing exercises in feet/inches.
+Good examples
+Plenty of exercises
+Finished exercises available for download online along with solutions
-Many numerical errors
-Not enough dimensions given in the figures which leaves you having to guess them
DETAILS
TITLE: Introduction to Autocad 2011 2D and 3D Design
Author: Alf Yarwood
Language: English
ISBN: 9780080965758
Format: PDF
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