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Workplace Skills for Success AutoCAD® 2008 Basics
Dean Zirwas, Indian River State College
Gary Koser, Indian River State College

ISBN-10: 0136127010
ISBN-13: 9780136127017

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper; 360 pp
Published: 05/08/2007
Status: Instock

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This text is appropriate for Introductory courses in AutoCAD.

With a focus on fundamental skill development, AutoCAD Workskills for Success with AutoCAD 2008- Basics is designed around the “Draw-Modify-Dimension-Print” cycle and focuses on the drawing skills needed to produce 2 dimensional drawings. Taking a layered learning approach, it builds skills gradually rather than overwhelming readers immediately with numerous commands or procedures. Projects, assignments, examples and tutorials draw from the fields of architecture, mechanical engineering and civil engineering. Complete with an instructor’s resource disk and student companion website, the text emphasizes both knowledge and productivity as the means for being successful in the workplace.

This text is appropriate for Introductory courses in AutoCAD.

HALLMARK FEATURES

Focuses on basic drawing skills—needed to produce 2 dimensional drawings.

Emphasizes basic draw, modify, dimension and plot skills so students can quickly begin to produce and complete fundamental drawings.
Gives students confidence and makes topics easy to find.

Uses a layered learning approach—throughout the text.

Builds knowledge gradually so students gain the fundamentals needed to create basic drawings and then develop an advanced understanding of each area.
Makes learning manageable, instead of overwhelming the reader immediately with numerous commands and procedures.

Offers a workplace orientation—which serves as a framework for the text.

Moves from basic commands to more powerful commands based on workplace drawing experiences.
Uses exercises and tutorials to develop a true understanding of the fundamental skills needed to be successful in the workplace.

Emphasizes applications to architecture, mechanical engineering and civil engineering—throughout the text.

Contains discipline specific sample drawings, exercises, examples and tutorials to make material more meaningful to the student.
Gives instructors a chance to select the examples most appropriate for their course, their students’ majors and their students’ learning styles.

UNIT 1. AutoCAD Introduction and Overview

UNIT 2. Creating and Working with AutoCAD Files

UNIT 3. Fundamental Drawing and Modifying Commands

UNIT 4. Fundamental Viewing and Inquiry Commands

UNIT 5. Elementary Dimensioning

UNIT 6. Fundamentals of the Plot/Printing Process

UNIT 7. Intermediate Drawing and Modifying

UNIT 8. Fundamentals of Layers, Groups, and Blocks

UNIT 9. Editing with Grips

UNIT 10. Tabels, Cells, and Fields Fundamentals

UNIT 11. More About AutoCAD Screens and Commands

APPENDIX

AutoCADCommands

Menus and Toolbars

Command Alias LIst for AutoCAD

AutoCAD Setting Variables

Glossary

INDEX

AutoCAD - Computer-Aided Drawing [AUTOCAD 2008] (CAD / Engineering Graphics / Drafting)

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Gary Koser has worked in the CAD and engineering fields for over 30 years. Starting out in industry as a project engineer, Gary began teaching CAD-related courses in the corporate setting and currently teaches at Indian River Community College. He's the author of numerous papers, articles, and manuals including "NRCS AutoCIVIL Training Tutorial" and "Productivity and Profitability of Structural Engineering Systems", and has been featured on WQCS Radio Technology Minute discussing AutoCAD. In 2002 Gary recieved the Golden Medalion Award for Teaching Excellence at IRCC and the Johnson Endowed Chair.

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