AutoCAD 2023 A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users

AutoCAD 2023: A Power Guide for Bners and Intermediate Users textbook is designed for instructor-led courses as well as for self-paced learning. It is intended to help eeers, designers, and CAD operators interested in learning AutoCAD for creating 2D eeering 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 548 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 eeering drawings and 3D Models.

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

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