AutoCAD LT 2006: The Definitive Guide: The Definitive Guide

by Ralph Grabowski

Overview

AutoCAD LT 2006: The Definitive Guide introduces the newest version of AutoCAD LT and guides the reader through tutorials for creating landscape drawings and electrical schematics. The tutorials demonstrate setting up new drawings and using basic drawing and editing commands, and then progress to intermediate concepts such as dimensioning, block creation, and attribute extraction. Parts III and IV provide advanced information about CAD management and customization. Readers learn how to network office computers, implement backup strategies, and create drawing standards to make their workflow more efficient. Customizing menus, toolbars, and linetypes and using macros and DIESEL are also discussed. The appendices include a comprehensive list of AutoCAD LT commands and a comparison with the features and commands of AutoCAD 2006.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781556228582
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	06/14/2005
Series:	Wordware Applications Library
Edition description:	1E
Pages:	476
Product dimensions:	6.18(w) x 9.08(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Ralph Grabowski began writing about AutoCAD in 1985 when he joined CADalyst magazine as technical editor. Since then he has written 85 books and hundreds of magazine articles on CAD. For Wordware Publishing, he has written more than a dozen books on AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT, and Visio. Mr. Grabowski is the editor of upFront.eZine, a weekly e-newsletter for CAD users, and iCommunique, a monthly e-newsletter for Canadian AutoCAD users. You can visit his web site at www.upfront-ezine.com and his WorldCAD Access web-log at worldcadaccess. typepad.com.