Workplace skills for success with AutoCAD 2010 : basics through advanced : a layered learning approach / Gary Koser, Dean Zirwas

Includes index

AutoCAD introduction and overview -- Creating and working with AutoCAD files -- Fundamental drawing and modifying commands -- Fundamental viewing and inquiry commands -- Elementary dimensioning -- Fundamentals of the printing process -- Intermediate drawing and modifying -- Fundamentals of layers, groups, and blocks -- Editing with Grips -- Parametric constraints -- Tables, cells, and fields fundamentals -- More about AutoCAD screens and commands -- Advanced drawing and modifying commands -- Introduction to 3D modeling -- Creating 3D objects -- Modifying 3D objects -- 3D presentations -- Presentation animations -- Preparing models for printing -- Using files and raster images -- Advanced blocks and external reference operations -- Internet utilities and operations -- Drawing standards -- Appendix A: AutoCAD commands -- Appendix B: Menus, toolbars, ribbon, and palettes -- Appendix C: Command alias list -- Appendix D: AutoCAD setting variables (with typical initial or default values)