Discovering AutoCAD 2000

Book Description

This text, designed for first-time AutoCAD users, functions as both a classroom teaching tool and a self-study guide. With an accompanying website created to provide support to students and professors, Discovering AutoCAD 2000 gives readers a thorough and practical understanding of AutoCAD concepts through active, participatory learning.

Book - Discovering AutoCAD 2000 utilizes a combination of instruction and exercises to help the reader master AutoCAD. The text is organized around drawing tasks that demonstrate the techniques being taught at every point. Drawing exercises are reproduced in large, clearly dimensioned format, and are accompanied by tips, step-by-step suggestions, and illustrations that show what to expect when steps are completed correctly.

Companion Website - The accompanying website contains multiple choice assessment quest ions for each chapter that can be used as check-up exercises or quizzes to help both p rofessors and students assess how well techniques are being mastered. It also include s an extended AutoCAD project for each chapter that provides extra challenges for stud ents, as well as a syllabus builder that guides professors in creating a graphic web p age containing their classes' information and assignments. Finally, the site's Netsea rch capability directs readers to other sites that explore AutoCAD topics.

Instructor's CD: Qualified instructors using this text may order an instructor's solutions disk.