Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Practical 3D Drafting and Design
Take your AuotoCAD design skills to the next dimension by creating powerful 3D models.
Published on 13. January 2025
374 pages
978-1-84969-936-5 (ISBN)
Description
Take your AuotoCAD design skills to the next dimension by creating powerful 3D models.
Key Features
Obtain 2D drawings from 3D models
Master AutoCAD's third dimension
Full of practical tips and examples to help take your skills to the next dimension
Book DescriptionAutoCAD is a computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting software application. AutoCAD supports both 2D and 3D formats. AutoCAD is used in a range of industries and is utilized by architects, project managers, and engineers, among others."Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Practical 3D Drafting and Design" will take you beyond the 2D frontier and help you create accurate 3D models that simulate reality. This book is crammed full of creative and practical tutorials which will help you master the third dimension. From exercises on coordinate systems to creating solids and surfaces from 2D, you will wonder how you ever designed without this resource by your side."Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Practical 3D Drafting and Design" is full of hands-on studies and projects that will help develop your 3D skills. Starting from the assumption of only a very basic knowledge of AutoCAD, this book will help you master 3D visualization and coordinate systems, create 3D models from 2D drawings, and from basic shapes, measure volumes, and other information, obtain 2D construction drawings from 3D models as well as how to apply lights and materials to get photorealistic images.What you will learn
Learn how to create basic 3D shapes and models
View and navigate 3D models
Apply user coordinate systems to define workplanes
Create 3D models from 2D drawings
Apply 3D basic shapes and modify 3D models
Master AutoCAD Lighting and materials effects
Obtain information from 3D models, like volumes and inertias
Create photorealistic images of your 3D models
Who this book is forThis book is intended for everyone who wants to create accurate 3D models in AutoCAD, like architecture, engineering, or design professionals, and students. Only basic understanding of 2D AutoCAD is needed.
Key Features
Obtain 2D drawings from 3D models
Master AutoCAD's third dimension
Full of practical tips and examples to help take your skills to the next dimension
Book DescriptionAutoCAD is a computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting software application. AutoCAD supports both 2D and 3D formats. AutoCAD is used in a range of industries and is utilized by architects, project managers, and engineers, among others."Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Practical 3D Drafting and Design" will take you beyond the 2D frontier and help you create accurate 3D models that simulate reality. This book is crammed full of creative and practical tutorials which will help you master the third dimension. From exercises on coordinate systems to creating solids and surfaces from 2D, you will wonder how you ever designed without this resource by your side."Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Practical 3D Drafting and Design" is full of hands-on studies and projects that will help develop your 3D skills. Starting from the assumption of only a very basic knowledge of AutoCAD, this book will help you master 3D visualization and coordinate systems, create 3D models from 2D drawings, and from basic shapes, measure volumes, and other information, obtain 2D construction drawings from 3D models as well as how to apply lights and materials to get photorealistic images.What you will learn
Learn how to create basic 3D shapes and models
View and navigate 3D models
Apply user coordinate systems to define workplanes
Create 3D models from 2D drawings
Apply 3D basic shapes and modify 3D models
Master AutoCAD Lighting and materials effects
Obtain information from 3D models, like volumes and inertias
Create photorealistic images of your 3D models
Who this book is forThis book is intended for everyone who wants to create accurate 3D models in AutoCAD, like architecture, engineering, or design professionals, and students. Only basic understanding of 2D AutoCAD is needed.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Target group
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
File size
9,99 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84969-936-5 (9781849699365)
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04/2013
Packt Publishing
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Person
ANTONIO C DOS SANTOS JOAO :
Joao Santos is the manager and main instructor at QualiCAD (www.qualicad.com), one of the most important Portuguese ATCs (Autodesk Authorized Training Center), based in Lisbon. With a degree in Mechanical Engineering, he has been teaching AutoCAD for more than 25 years and, most recently teaching several AutoCAD clones such as DraftSight, ZW CAD, ProgeCAD, BitCAD. He is an AutoCAD 2013 and 3ds Max 2013 Certified professional user and instructor, being also the Portuguese instructor in these technologies with more students. Joao is the author and co-author of more than 40 Portuguese AutoCAD and 3ds Max books. He is also the author of Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Practical 3D Drafting and Design, Packt Publishing.
Joao Santos is the manager and main instructor at QualiCAD (www.qualicad.com), one of the most important Portuguese ATCs (Autodesk Authorized Training Center), based in Lisbon. With a degree in Mechanical Engineering, he has been teaching AutoCAD for more than 25 years and, most recently teaching several AutoCAD clones such as DraftSight, ZW CAD, ProgeCAD, BitCAD. He is an AutoCAD 2013 and 3ds Max 2013 Certified professional user and instructor, being also the Portuguese instructor in these technologies with more students. Joao is the author and co-author of more than 40 Portuguese AutoCAD and 3ds Max books. He is also the author of Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Practical 3D Drafting and Design, Packt Publishing.
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