AutoCAD For Dummies, 18th Edition

Turn great ideas into great drawings

AutoCAD has provided the power to create the drawings that power industries for over three decades. AutoCAD For Dummies helps you zoom through those 30 years of evolution in the product and put the tools in AutoCAD most helpful to your work to use. Written by an experienced AutoCAD engineer and mechanical design instructor, AutoCAD For Dummies assumes no previous computer-aided drafting experience as it walks you through the basics of starting projects and drawing lines all the way up through 3D modeling.

Inside...

- Setting up a project
- Drawing straight lines and curves
- Editing your work
- Adding text to drawings
- Working with blocks and arrays
- Moving into 3D
- Finding helpful resources