AutoCAD 2016® and AutoCAD LT® 2016 ESSENTIALS By Scott Onstott

AutoCAD 2016® and AutoCAD LT® 2016 ESSENTIALS By Scott Onstott

Contents:

C H A P T E R 1 Getting Started

C H A P T E R 2 Gaining Basic Drawing Skills

C H A P T E R 3 Using Drawing Aids

C H A P T E R 4 Editing Entities

C H A P T E R 5 Shaping Curves

C H A P T E R 6 Controlling Object Visibility and Appearance

C H A P T E R 7 Organizing Objects

C H A P T E R 8 Hatching and Gradients

C H A P T E R 9 Working with Blocks and Xrefs

C H A P T E R 10 Creating and Editing Text

C H A P T E R 11 Dimensioning

C H A P T E R 12 Keeping In Control with Constraints

C H A P T E R 13 Working with Layouts and Annotative Objects

C H A P T E R 14 Printing and Plotting

C H A P T E R 15 Working with Data

C H A P T E R 16 Navigating 3D Models

C H A P T E R 17 Modeling in 3D

C H A P T E R 18 Presenting and Documenting 3D Design

:Introduction

The staying power of the AutoCAD® program is legendary in the ever-changing software industry, having been around for 34 years by the 2016 release. You can assured that spending your time learning AutoCAD will be a wise investment, and the skills you obtain in this book will be useful for years to come. I welcome you in beginning the process of learning AutoCAD. It will give you great satisfaction to learn such a complex program and use it to design and document whatever you dream up. You’ll find step-by-step tutorials that reveal a wide variety of techniques built on many years of real-world experience. The first 14 chapters apply to both AutoCAD® 2016 and AutoCAD LT® 2016. AutoCAD LT is Autodesk’s lower-cost version of AutoCAD, and it has reduced capabilities. Chapters 15 through 18 are for full AutoCAD users only, because they cover advanced tools not available in AutoCAD LT, including attributes, 3D navigation, 3D modeling, and rendering.