AutoCAD 2025: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users

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AutoCAD 2025: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users textbook is designed for instructor-led courses as well as for self-paced learning. It is intended to help engineers, designers, and CAD operators interested in learning AutoCAD to create 2D engineering drawings as well as 3D Models. This textbook is a great help for new AutoCAD users and a great teaching aid for classroom training. The textbook consists of 13 chapters, and a total of 550 pages covering major workspaces of AutoCAD such as Drafting & Annotation and 3D Modeling, teaching you to use AutoCAD software for creating, editing, plotting, and managing real-world 2D engineering drawings and 3D Models.



This textbook not only focuses on the usage of the tools/commands of AutoCAD but also the concept of design. Every chapter of this textbook contains tutorials that provide users with step-by-step instructions on how to easily create mechanical designs and drawings. Moreover, every chapter ends with hands-on test drives allowing users to experience AutoCAD's user-friendly and powerful capabilities.


Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction to AutoCAD

Chapter 2. Creating Drawings - I

Chapter 3. Working with Drawing Aids and Layers

Chapter 4. Creating Drawings - II

Chapter 5. Modifying and Editing Drawings - I

Chapter 6. Working with Dimensions and Dimensions Style

Chapter 7. Editing Dimensions and Adding Text

Chapter 8. Modifying and Editing Drawings - II

Chapter 9. Hatching and Gradients

Chapter 10. Working with Blocks and Xrefs

Chapter 11. Working with Layouts

Chapter 12. Printing and Plotting

Chapter 13. Introducing 3D Basics and Creating 3D Models

 

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Common terms and phrases

Alternatively angle arrow AutoCAD Autodesk base point block Cartesian coordinate system center point chamfer check box circle Click to specify Close Undo color Command Line window command prompt construction line coordinate system corner Create the drawing cursor horizontally cursor snaps default define dialog box appears diameter dimension line dimension style dimension text discussed display Draw panel drawing area drawing file drop-down list Dynamic Input boxes editing exit Fillet hatch pattern Home tab invoke LAYER PROPERTIES MANAGER layout left mouse button Line tool linetype Lineweight Model space Move the cursor Object Snap offset distance option parameters Plot Style Table plotter point or Close Polar coordinate system polygon polyline press ENTER preview prompted to select prompted to specify Quick Access Toolbar radio button radius rectangle Rotate scale select objects sheet set specified point Specify next point specify the center spline Status Bar template text style Trim Tutorial viewport width workspace Zoom

Bibliographic information

TitleAutoCAD 2025: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users
AuthorSandeep Dogra
PublisherCADArtifex
Subjects ›  › 

Computers / Design, Graphics & Media / CAD-CAM
Technology & Engineering / Drafting & Mechanical Drawing
  
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