This unique learning resource features concise, straightforward explanations and real–world, hands–on exercises and tutorials. Following a quick discussion of concepts and goals, each chapter moves on to an approachable hands–on exercise designed to reinforce real–world tactics and techniques. Compelling, full–color screenshots illustrate tutorial steps, and chapters conclude with related and more open–ended projects to further reinforce the chapter′s lessons. Starting and ending files for the exercises are also available for download, so you can compare your results with those of professionals. You′ll follow a workflow–based approach that mirrors the development of projects in the real world, learning 2D drawing skills, editing entities, working with splines and polylines, using layers and objects, creating and editing text, dimensioning, modeling in 3D, and much more

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