| AutoCAD 2009 and AutoCAD LT 2009: No Experience Required | 
 enlarge | Author: Jon Mcfarland
Publisher: Sybex
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 818
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.2 x 1.8
ISBN: 0470260580
Dewey Decimal Number: 620.00420285536
EAN: 9780470260586
ASIN: 0470260580
Publication Date: April 28, 2008
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Product Description
AutoCAD 2009 and AutoCAD LT 2009: No Experience Required is the perfect step-by-step introduction to the very latest version of the world's leading CAD software. It provides concise explanations and practical tutorials that clearly show you how to plan and develop a customized AutoCAD project. Follow the tutorials sequentially or just jump in at any chapter by downloading the drawing files from the companion website. Either way, you'll master AutoCAD features, get a thorough grounding in the essentials, and see quick results.
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 for beginers only January 7, 2009
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.
 great instruction! December 16, 2008
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!
 plenty for a beginner June 28, 2008
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
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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