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Ellen Finkelstein
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Ellen Finkelstein
AutoCAD® 2006 and AutoCAD® LT 2006 Bible
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About the Author
Ellen Finkelstein learned AutoCAD in Israel, where she always got to pore over the manual because it was in English. After returning to the United States, she started consulting and teaching AutoCAD as well as other computer programs, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. She has also taught courses on Web writing and usability. Her Web site, www. ellenfinkelstein.com, contains tips and techniques for AutoCAD and PowerPoint. Ellen has written numerous articles on AutoCAD and PowerPoint. Her first book was AutoCAD
For Dummies Quick Reference. Since then, she has written books on Word, PowerPoint, OpenOffice.org (OpenOffice.org For Dummies), Flash (Flash MX 2004 For Dummies), and Web technologies (Syndicating Web Sites with RSS Feeds For Dummies). You’re holding the sixth edition of this book, which previously appeared for AutoCAD releases 14, 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2005.
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Foreword
Congratulations!
You’re about to embark on one of the best guides to AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT available today. By purchasing this book, you have just received a life membership in a society whose members number in the millions worldwide.
AutoCAD is a design tool that enables you to communicate your ideas, whatever they may be, in any professional field. Architects, engineers, drafters, and design-related professionals use AutoCAD to create, view, manage, plot, share, and reuse accurate, information-rich drawings. From buildings to bridges, ships to mechanical assemblies, golf courses to new highways, aerospace to automotive, interior design to medical instrumentation; almost every man-made structure or tool has been developed with the help of computer-aided design software — specifically AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT.
Ellen does a great job of detailing every aspect of the software in a manner that is easy to comprehend, and that makes you productive from the start. She has been an advocate of the product line and a great friend to the product team. Her insights have helped us to make AutoCAD easier to use with each new release. I really wish that I had access to a book like this when I started using AutoCAD many years ago.
Don’t let the size of this book intimidate you. Most of us who use AutoCAD each day pick our favorite tools and then proceed with our design work. I don’t believe there is a customer today who uses everything that AutoCAD has to offer. That said, I challenge you to explore this book and find new ways to be inventive and productive with the software. Ellen shows you every feature that we have built into the product. Try something new, and explore a different topic each week. You use the software, now be the AutoCAD champion in your office.
Whether you’re new to AutoCAD or an experienced user, this book is a must-have for anyone who uses AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT. This is the book that you want in your technical library, and one that will be valuable in the years to come, as we continue to update everyone’s favorite CAD software.
Now the only question left is: what will you design?
Eric Stover
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