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AutoCAD 2006 Instructor: A Student Guide to Complete Coverage of AutoCAD's Commands and Features
James A. Leach, University of Louisville

What's New

  • New Textbook Design: new fonts, headers, chapter openers, Tip icons, 2005 and 2006 bars, new indicators for multi-chapter exercises.
  • Many new and enhanced commands are fully explained such as, Copy, Stretch, Rotate, Scale, Chamfer, Fillet, Offset, Trim, Extend, Rectangle, Join, Mline, Mtext, Scalelistedit, Eattext, Hatch, Dimarc, Dimjogged, Toolbars, Layer, Vpmin, Vpmax, Table, Field, Publish, Revcloud and more.
  • Coverage of Dynamic Input. This new feature in AutoCAD (specify a point by a distance dimension and angular dimension) is fully explained with examples and applications, and is applied throughout the book.
  • Coverage of Dynamic Blocks. The new book explains how to create Blocks in AutoCAD that can be edited directly in the drawing by key grips that allow you to stretch, rotate, scale, array, flip, etc. specific parts of the block geometry based on specific parameters.
  • New Chapter on Sheet Sets. The new book explains how to combine multiple .DWG files into one complete set of drawings for a specific project. Instructions on how to control sheet numbers, lists, title blocks, references, and plotting globally for the set rather than for each sheet individually.








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