AutoCAD Books

This is good for beginners and is the best thing I saw so far. Lessons are spaced in a gradual progression, which is perfect for beginners.

The most common architectural and engineering drawing package, for at least a decade. If you are a mechanical or civil engineer or architect, or a student in those fields, it behooves you to have some passing familiarity with AutoCAD. Now this book gives you the latest version, 2005.

By now, the differences with recent previous editions, like 2004, are incremental. Autodesk is continually refining and adding new features, like improved annotations. The first chapter describes these newbies in 2005. But guess what? If you read through the rest of the book, which essentially describes 2004, then you can see that 2005 is just an incremental upgrade. So if you are currently using the 2004 version, and have no plans to migrate, you may well consider skipping 2005 and waiting for a future edition. The book explicitly acknowledges this strategy. Though the example it gives is the user skipping recent editions like 2004 and now deciding to take up 2005.

What you can expect from the 2005 package is a very stable and well tested edition. A mature development platform. If you are a full time AutoCAD user, you may want to peruse the latest 2005 changes to see if indeed it is time to upgrade.

Excellent introduction to Architectural Desktop. Contains all the info needed to start creating buildings. Does not have the all the details necessary to fully use all the tools in the program, but hits the high points. It is important that the reader have a basic understanding of AutoCAD before using this book--the book does not teach AutoCAD basics--only covers Arch DT specifics. Good exercises written into the book to help with the learning process.

I like this book. It is simple and gets to the point. It's like having a teacher or guide by your side.

I think this is a good and helpful product. Essential for anyone trying to learn AutoCAD with no previous experience.

The book is very easy to follow using an example based approach. The book should not be tackled without a copy of autocad14. It is basically an introduction in depth in certain areas.For getting started on using autocad and to start creating drawings even in 3D it is excellent. The main criticism for me was that the book is only for beginners and does not go into enough detail on data exchange ie OLE ,DXF etc . I feel an overview of all the facilities working in the (dare I say it) microsoft enviroment with some more examples would have brought the book up to 5 stars.

Found this book to be very informative. The author covers the material in great detail and provides solutions to the practice examples in the back of the book. This is a complex subject, like any other progamming language, and I found I use the book more as a reference to troubleshoot my code.

AutoCAD in its 2006 version is quite formidable. Centuries of programmer time have been spent to refine this product. Thus a comprehensive description of what you can do with it would be a huge and perhaps offputting book. Omura provides an easy alternative.

He teaches the basic operations that you are likely to need. Enough to get you productively making simple three dimensional objects and manipulating their properties.

But, if you are migrating to AutoCAD 2006 because you need a new feature within it, you should probably consult a more thorough text. Chances are that the latest features are refinements that most new users would not be dealing with, and thus not covered by Omura.

Good review of the basics. Great multimedia / interactive CD ROM. The tutorial actually demostrates the operation as a narrarator tells you what's going on. They didn't get much into time saving techniques, though. (Perhaps this is covered in more advanced tutorials).

the book is good for the beginners, intermediate and advanced users upto 2d drawings, however when it comes to 3d author failed to comprehensively communicate the steps of his tutorial work to the user.