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fromfrom thethe forewordforeword byby WayneWayne Hodgins,Hodgins, StrategicStrategic Futurist,Futurist, DirectorDirector ofof WorldwideWorldwide LearningLearning Strategies,Strategies, Autodesk,Autodesk, IncInc..

Discover the new features in both AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT and make upgrading easy

Learn drawing basics, how to program and customize AutoCAD, and everything in between

Create a simple drawing right away with the Chapter 1

tutorial A

utoCAD® 2005 and AutoCAD LT® 2005

BONUS

CD-ROM

Includes real-world drawings

for the exercises, bonus chapters, freeware and shareware programs, a 30-day trial version of AutoCAD software, and more

Ellen Finkelstein

AutoCAD® 2005 and

AutoCAD LT® 2005

Bible

AutoCAD® 2005 and

AutoCAD LT® 2005

Bible

Ellen Finkelstein

AutoCAD® 2005 and AutoCAD® LT 2005 Bible

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Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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Copyright © 2004 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana

Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana

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ISBN: 0-7645-6989-9

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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 also teaches courses on Web writing and usability. Her Web site, www. ellenfinkelstein.com, contains tips and techniques for AutoCAD, PowerPoint, and Flash. Ellen has written many articles on AutoCAD and PowerPoint and has written books on Word, PowerPoint, OpenOffice.org, and Flash (such as Flash MX 2004 For Dummies, published by

Wiley). Her first book was AutoCAD For Dummies Quick Reference. You’re holding the fifth edition of this book, which previously appeared for AutoCAD releases 14, 2000, 2002, and 2004.

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Foreword

We are delighted to see Wiley’s latest update to the very successful AutoCAD Bible by Ellen Finkelstein. Autodesk software gives you the tools to manage and deliver

your digital design data and content. Autodesk understands that our value proposition is to constantly deliver performance and productivity improvements to you, the users of our

products. Fulfilling this proposition requires more than great software — such as the recently released AutoCAD 2005 and AutoCAD LT 2005. True productivity improvement also means having available the necessary resources, services, and support. These additional resources make you more productive as you apply Autodesk products to solve your design challenges. The new AutoCAD 2005 and AutoCAD LT 2005 Bible is a noteworthy addition to this pool of resources you will want at your fingertips.

Almost everything we do assumes a collaborative partnership-based approach. Indeed, “none of us is as smart as all of us” is a principle upon which Autodesk was founded. To augment our great software products, Autodesk offers Autodesk Consulting to meet your need for training, eLearning, custom content development, and consulting. Our commitment to further increase your productivity includes our ongoing work with the “virtual” Autodesk enterprise — including publishers such as Wiley and experts such as Ellen Finkelstein — to bring you impressive resources that support your Autodesk software.

AutoCAD is a powerful 2D and 3D design and drafting platform that automates your design tasks and provides digital tools so you can focus on the design rather than the software itself. Architects, engineers, drafters, and design-related professionals use AutoCAD to create, view, manage, plot, share, and reuse accurate, information-rich drawings. To deliver better results, you need to use the best technology. AutoCAD 2005 automates the process of managing and delivering an entire set of coordinated drawings. You can quickly output the full set of sheets as compact, easy-to-view DWF (Design Web Format files or hard-copy plots. The new fields enable you to mine your data by, for example, filling in table blocks for you. The new tables make creating schedules a breeze, and enhanced tool palettes simplify drafting tasks. Sharing design data is now easier with the DWF Composer that allows electronic markup of DWF files. These new timesaving tools minimize the number of steps you have to take, freeing you and your team to explore more design options — and create even more outstanding designs.

By providing full coverage of AutoCAD LT in her book for the first time, Ellen Finkelstein makes the book useful to an even wider range of professionals. Many organizations use both AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT, and they will find this book to be an invaluable reference. AutoCAD LT 2005 now includes new table objects and enhanced tool palettes. In addition, fields created in AutoCAD are accurately displayed in AutoCAD LT.

After 20 years we can say, to paraphrase on old marketing line, “This isn’t your father’s AutoCAD!” Your work today is not just about powering great designs with AutoCAD’s

and AutoCAD LT’s productivity and performance tools. Both programs enable you to collaborate with others to extend the value of your designs — and maximize the value of your design data across your entire organization. You also need to easily acquire, integrate, deploy, and manage your software assets to increase workflow and improve your bottom line.

x Foreword

However, you can only benefit from what you know and use. Introducing these innovations also poses new challenges, namely learning how to apply these enhancements to the jobs you face. We have done much to address these challenges within AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT, yet the full solution must be more than what Autodesk alone can provide — hence, the critical role of the Autodesk virtual community.

We are, therefore, particularly grateful to Ellen Finkelstein for having written such a comprehensive and reliable guide to AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT, and to the people at Wiley for making it so widely available. Following on the great success of the AutoCAD 2004 Bible, this new version draws upon reader feedback. To get maximum value and performance from AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT, you should have the AutoCAD 2005 and AutoCAD LT 2005 Bible right at your fingertips. It will enable you to respond to the unexpected, which is the norm on the job these days. Use it to augment the digital-learning resources that come with your software: AutoCAD Learning Assistance, the Help system, the new Info palette, and the online resources of Autodesk, which are seamlessly integrated into AutoCAD. If you use the AutoCAD 2005 and AutoCAD LT 2005 Bible, you will discover the myriad capabilities of AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT, some that you probably weren’t aware even existed. However you use it, when you combine the features in AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT with the support of the AutoCAD 2005 and AutoCAD LT 2005 Bible, you will discover daily breakthroughs and productivity boosters as you use AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT to power your designs.

Wayne Hodgins

Strategic Futurist

Director of Worldwide Learning Strategies

Autodesk Consulting

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