AutoCAD 2014 for Dummies

The book gets you started on learning how to work with Auto Cad on your own. It's not going to spoon feed you every single information so you have to practice and do more research and/or trial and error to get proficient in the area you need to be.I would recommend buying more books on CAD exercises if you'd like to advance on to 3D modeling.

This is a very good starter book that makes learning some of the features of a very sophisticated software package pretty easy. I would still recommend getting "Mastering AutoCAD 2014 and AutoCAD LT 2014" to really go more in depth if that is what you wish to do. I cannot think of anyone that has spent $1,000 or much more that would not wish to go into more depth, but to each his/her own.

As in all, Dummy books, this brings you from the first step to actually being to use AutoCad!I'm not an expert, but with ALOT of practice , you can become proficient and actually earn a living doing CAD drawings for others!This is a perfect work at home job....you actually can create drawings, keep the information, and skills, and people and companies pay you for your work.I recommend it!

I've learned a lot from this book. I almost had to start over from my 'self-taught' use of AutoCAD since I had taught myself so many bad habits. Doing it right makes all the difference in the world, and takes WAY less time than trying to figure it out on your own.

I enjoyed the humor of this text, but I still got a little bogged down in the minutia of the program. I am just a beginner with the program, but I still feel a little overwhelmed. I think the text would have been better suited to someone with prior knowledge of the program.

Perfect book to follow along step by step and learn the program. Very easy to follow steps and illustrations.

Very helpful book, well indexed which makes looking up a topic easy. Coverage of AutoCAD seems to be very comprehensive and it certainly helped me get started more quickly. Prefer using it as my first place to goto rather than the AutoCAD on-line help. Recommend this book to anyone starting out in AutoCAD.

Bought this for the bride and she couldn't be more pleased. Getting questions answered that she wasn't finding in the help file. Seller was great and book was like new

I really like this book it is easy to understand and the delivery was made on time!

AutoCAD ist ein Programm zur Anfertigung technischer Zeichnungen. Es ist extrem leistungsfähig und vielseitig. Allerdings: Der "intuitiven Nutzung" durch den Neuling setzt es zähen Widerstand entgegen. Selbst (oder gerade) wer viel Erfahrung hat mit anderen Zeichenprogrammen wie etwa "Illustrator", steht hier in vielerlei Hinsicht erst mal wie der Ochs' vorm Tor.Auf der Suche nach guten Einführungen in die AutoCAD-Nutzung bin ich schließlich bei Bill Fane's "AutoCAD 2013 [2014] for Dummmies" hängengeblieben. Es bietet eine rundum erfreuliche Mischung aus strukturiertem Vorgehen, nachvollziehbaren Beispielen (Übungen), hohem Niveau, sauberem Sprachstil und locker eingestreuten, ironischen Flappsigkeiten zur Auflockerung. (Ich nutze die englische Originalausgabe.) Die neue Ausgabe ist farbig gedruckt, was eine große Hilfe ist.Ich empfehle dieses Buch ohne Vorbehalt.

This dummy can now use Autocad - I bought this version to teach myself the basics of AC 2015, it was a lot cheaper & most of the commands are the same...

Good for beginners

not exactly what I though it would be but still informative