How to Use This Book


Introducing AutoCAD 2008 covers the basic drawing and editing tools that most users will need to produce quality AutoCAD drawings. You won't find information about every last feature. Instead, this book presents AutoCAD's essential features through a combination of tutorials and reference material to give you a concise, easy-to-use companion for your work with AutoCAD. It's designed so that you can quickly learn the tools you need when you need them.

Most chapters start with tutorials covering basic concepts on a particular topic so you can understand how AutoCAD works in a general way. Later parts of the chapter provide reference material to help you with specific tasks. For example, in Chapter 9, a tutorial at the beginning gives you the basic steps for creating and formatting text. After that, the chapter goes into more depth to show you how to use other features, such as how to import text, how to size and scale text, and how to create tables. Once you've learned the basics from the beginning tutorial, you can pick and choose from those topics later in the chapter as the need arises.

The book assumes you have a working knowledge of the Microsoft Windows operating system. You should also know how to locate files on your computer and how menus and toolbars work in a general way. Experience with other graphics programs also helps but is not essential.

If you are wondering whether your computer has the capacity to run AutoCAD 2008, here is a rundown of the minimum system requirements:

  • Windows 2000, XP Home or Professional, or Windows Vista

  • 1.2GB free disk space

  • 51MB RAM (1GB if you are using Windows Vista)

  • Pentium V or equivalent processor




Introducing AutoCAD 2008
Introducing AutoCAD 2008
ISBN: 0470121505
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2007
Pages: 147
Authors: George Omura

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