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Summary: This RULES
Review: Buy it today i have it and it tought me a now i am almost a pro buy it today
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Summary: Pleasantly Surprised!
Review: I had to learn AutoCad in a crunch and had no previous experience, this book is written in very easy to follow instructions. The exercises are easy to follow and there's a wealth of knowledge between those pages!Thanks Mr. Sykes for this excellent teaching tool.
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Summary: Essential Learning Aid
Review: I think that paper drafting must be pretty well dead. In our manufacturing business we do a complete system assembly including nuts and bolts, gaskets, wires, plumbing, all electronically with our library of parts plus new custom parts for every job before we cut metal. So if you are drafting, start with AutoCad LT, AutoCad, or something similar as soon as possible. Now getting to the book. The problem with AutoCad is that it has a lot of capabilities that you will probably never explore or use. This book is a comprehensive reference book with easy to follow step by step lessons on drawing, snaps, dimensions, etc. Read the book, do the exercises, maybe repeat sections and you will learn the basics of AutoCad. AutoCad is not simple. I have about 10 years of experience on an old Cad workstation. I started to upgrade to something more modern. I found that the AutoCad had little connection to the older AutoCad. Initially I spent about one week full time learning the program by just following the instructions and resources that come with the AutoCad software. I found it heavy slogging with the many pull down menus and options and maybe overly complicated. That was my first impression. There are plenty of advantages to the new version but to some extent those gains offset with many new things to learn. Frankly I found it all a bit overwhelming to learn on my own without a book and I have 10 years of Cad experience. So the present book "One Step at a Time" is a must. The book is a bit of a monster 1200 pages long and 1.5" thick. With large font and many drawings and photos of the windows features it will take more than a few hours to learn everything. I imagine most will just read parts over a period of a year or more and will not start at page one and read until page 1200 in one go. If you try and learn everything at once you will probably forget half the information. But with the book and after about the first 200-300 pages you will be off and running. Then you can go one bite at a time after that. Great book especially if you are learning on your own. Helps you make the jump then keep as a reference. Jack in Toronto, P.Eng.
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Summary: I couldn't ask for better
Review: I was just starting out with CAD at work and needed a book to teach me AutoCAD. I couldn't have asked for a better one! This book explained a topic/tool thoroughly, but then it literally walked me through how to use it (One Step at a Time). (There is even a CD with video demonstrations of many of the exercises.) After that, the author provided several exercises for me to work on my own (from simple to challenging). I feel very comfortable working in two-dimensional CAD now and have produced several client-ready drawings. I even got a raise!
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Summary: The best - that says it all
Review: I've taught AutoCAD for over ten years now - piecing together bits and pieces from one book and another. But no book ever covered the subject as well as the One Step at a Time series. With Sykes' 2002 book, I can cover both basic and intermediate classes. With his 3D book, I can complete my student's training in the same easy style they've become accustomed to.
Good job, Sykes! Keep it up!
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