Autocad 2012 for engineers and designers textbook covers the basic drafting and design concepts of autocad 2012 that will help in developing essential drafting skills of the users. In addition, a thorough coverage of autocad commands, options, and their applications will help the users to create engineering designs with ease. Real-world mechanical, civil, and architectural examples are used all over the book to ensure that the users can relate their knowledge and understand the techniques used in the industry to create a design. Introduction autocad part i · introduction to autocad · getting started with autocad · starting with advanced sketching · working with drawing aids · editing sketched objects-i · editing sketched objects-ii · creating text and tables · basic dimensioning, geometric dimensioning, and tolerancing · editing dimensions · dimension styles, multileader styles, and system variables · adding constraints to sketches · technical drawing with autocad · isometric drawings · hatching drawings · model space viewports, paper space viewports, and layouts · plotting drawings · template drawings autocad part ii · working with blocks · defining block attributes · understanding external references · working with advanced drawing options · grouping and advanced editing of sketched objects · working with data exchange & object linking and embedding · the user coordinate system · getting started with 3d · creating solid models · modifying 3d objects · editing 3d objects · surface modeling · mesh modeling · rendering and animating designs · autocad on internet autocad part iii · accessing external database · script files and slide shows · creating linetypes and hatch patterns · customizing the acad.pgp file - from Amzon