AutoCAD 2022: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users

AutoCAD 2022: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users textbook is designed for instructor-led courses as well as for self-paced learning. It is intended to help engineers, designers, and CAD operators interested in learning AutoCAD for creating 2D engineering drawings as well as 3D Models. This textbook is a great help for new AutoCAD users and a great teaching aid for classroom training. This textbook consists of 13 chapters, and a total of 546 pages covering major workspaces of AutoCAD such as Drafting & Annotation and 3D Modeling. This textbook teaches you to use AutoCAD software for creating, editing, plotting, and managing real world 2D engineering drawings and 3D Models.

This textbook not only focuses on the usage of the tools/commands of AutoCAD but also on the concept of design. Every chapter of this textbook contains tutorials that provide users with step-by-step instructions on how to create mechanical designs and drawings with ease. Moreover, every chapter ends with hands-on test drives which allow users to experience themselves the user friendly and powerful capabilities of AutoCAD.

Sandeep Dogra is the founder of CADArtifex and has over two decades of experience in the engineering & design industry. He has authored textbooks on various CAD/CAM/CAE software such as AutoCAD, SOLIDWORKS, SOLIDWORKS Simulation, Autodesk Fusion 360, and Creo Parametric. He has worked in various capacities in design, production, teaching, and management functions prior to founding CADArtifex.

He is a Mechanical Engineer and has decades of hands-on experience with various CAD/CAM/CAE software as a designer, trainer, and consultant. He has been teaching various CAD software for more than 15 years and as an industry consultant, he has worked with many engineering companies for various designing & engineering projects. He is also a member of the Autodesk Developer Network (ADN).