3D AutoCAD 2011: One Step at a Time

With the 2011 release, AutoCAD continues its phenomenal three-dimensional platform upgrade. AutoCAD® 2011 delivers a host of new and exciting tools that bring CAD's Solid Modeling and Animation's Mesh Modeling into a single, powerful application! And as always, we're here to assist you One Step at a Time. 3D AutoCAD 2011: One Step at a Time includes detailed instructions for the new Free-Form (Mesh) design creation and modifying tools, the new Navigation Bar, 3D Object Snaps, a new Materials Browser, and much more! And of course, we still offer the best instruction in Z-Space tools, Solid Modeling, and AutoCAD's Animation tools! Within these pages, you'll find solid gold tools, tips, and techniques – all wrapped up in our famous hands-on, step-by-step instructional approach that still leads the pack in AutoCAD texts. Inside, you'll find: o Countless graphics to show you how to accomplish a task o Dozens of exercises to enhance your understanding o The best, user-friendly, down-to-earth, keep-it-simple, task-oriented instructions and explanations available to AutoCAD students anywhere! o Access to many web-based tools, references, and supplements that will familiarize you with other methods of doing things o Unique access to our author via web-based communication tools Timothy Sean Sykes' friendly style and mastery of the material makes readers and students alike feel as though he's sitting at their elbow while they work. Indeed, his availability to his students and readers makes him unique in the textbook world!