AutoCAD 2011: One Step at a Time

AutoCAD® 2011 delivers new and exciting tools to help the designer meet today's challenges whatever they may be! Luckily, we're here to assist you in mastering both vintage and cutting edge tools One Step at a Time. AutoCAD 2011: One Step at a Time includes detailed instructions for Parametric Constraints - Geometric and Dimensional, the new Navigation Bar, Transparency, the ribbon's new Hatch panels, and AutoCAD's new approach to both Polylines and Splines! But don't worry, we still include complete discussions on the older tools, including: the Ribbon, Navigation Wheels and Cubes, Quick View and Quick Drawing, the Action Recorder, the MText Editor, and even the ever-growing stable of Layer tools!
All-in-all, you won't find a better foundation for your eventual studies of three-dimensional design anywhere! (Check out our companion text, 3D AutoCAD 2011: One Step at a Time, for a complete discussion of AutoCAD's new free-form design tools!) Within these pages, you'll find solid gold tools, tips, and techniques - all wrapped up in our famous hands-on, step-by-step instructional approach that still leads the pack in AutoCAD texts.
Inside:
o Thousands of graphics to show you how to accomplish a task
o Dozens of exercises (and access to more web-based exercises) to enhance your understanding
o The best, user-friendly, down-to-earth, keep-it-simple, task-oriented instructions and explanations available to AutoCAD students anywhere!
o Access to many web-based tools, references, and supplements that will familiarize you with other methods of doing things
o Unique access to our author via web-based communication tools
Timothy Sean Sykes' friendly style and mastery of the material makes readers and students alike feel as though he's sitting at their elbow while they work. Indeed, his availability to his students and readers makes him unique in the textbook world!