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AutoCAD 2008 3D Modeling Workbook For Dummies

AutoCAD 2008 3D Modeling Workbook For Dummies


By Lee Ambrosius

ISBN: 978-0-470-09763-2
Format: Paper
Pages: 366 Pages
Pub. Date: August 2007

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Price: $29.99
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Introduction.

Part I: Introducing AutoCAD.

Chapter 1: AutoCAD and the User Interface.

Chapter 2: Working with Drawing Files.

Chapter 3: Customizing Your Work Environment.

Part II: Going from 2D to 3D.

Chapter 4: Transitioning from 2D to 3D.

Chapter 5: Viewing a 3D Model.

Chapter 6: Taking the Plunge into 3D.

Chapter 7: Additional Exercises: Making the Transition.

Part III: 3D Modeling — Solid Modeling.

Chapter 8: Modeling with Solid.

Chapter 9: Modifying and Analyzing Solids.

Chapter 10: Creating Section and Auxiliary Views from Models.

Chapter 11: Additional Exercises: Modeling with Solids.

Part IV: 3D Modeling — Surfaces.

Chapter 12: Modeling with Surfaces.

Chapter 13: Complex Surface Modeling.

Chapter 14: Modifying Surfaces.

Chapter 15: Additional Exercises: Modeling with Surfaces.

Part V: Visualizing the Design.

Chapter 16: Lighting.

Chapter 17: Materials.

Chapter 18: Rendering and Animating.

Chapter 19: Additional Exercises: Visualizing the Design.

Part VI: Model Interchange.

Chapter 20: Plotting to a Hardcopy or an Electronic File.

Chapter 21: Importing and Exporting 3D Models.

Part VII: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 22: More than Ten New Features in AutoCAD 2008.

Chapter 23: More than Ten Software and Professional Design Resources.

Appendix A: Glossary.

Appendix B: About the DVD.

Index.

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