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Title: AutoCAD 2009 and AutoCAD LT 2009: No Experience Required
ISBN: 0470260580
Author:
Jon McFarland
Publicate Date: 2008-04-28
Publish: 2008-04-28
List Price: $34.99
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Paperback
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1: for beginers only
I purchased this book when I upgraded from 2005LT to 2009LT. This book does not cover many of the new features of 2009. I was hoping for an in depth section on dynamic blocks and annotative dimensioning. This book barely covers those topics. It also skims over plotting and layers. I will be returning this book for one with much more depth. This book would be good for a beginner, and by beginner I mean someone who has never used any autodesk product. It is also biased to the architectural side of drafting.
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2: great instruction!
I purchased this as a required textbook for a beginning AutoCAD class (I am a first year interior design student). The instruction in the class was awful, but the book is great and I would really recommend it if you just want to teach yourself AutoCAD. I ended up drawing the house in the book piece by piece, as instructed, and then drawing what was required for my class. So I did double the work, but I ended up feeling very confident with AutoCAD - which is the point!
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3: plenty for a beginner
Is there anything McFarland has left out about AutoCad 2009? Apparently not, at least for the newbie. As the cover prominently says, no experience needed. The book comprehensively covers what the novice might want. Explaining in detailed steps such basics as setting up a drawing, laying out walls of a building, and the use of layers. The latter is significant. For layering lets you decompose your design process into manageable parts. If you have perhaps used Adobe's Photoshop and its layering, then the idea transfers over readily.
The chapters also end in suggestions for exercises, so that you can integrate each chapter's lessons into your understanding. The exercises are not that extensive, so you may have to push yourself into devising more problems if you feel the need.
I should add that the text applies AutoCad to the designing of a building. Other important usages include designing consumer products. But the book stays on topic with architecture.
By the way, for non-US readers, the examples in the book all use imperial measurements. But you can trivially change the Autocad settings to use metric.
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