Book Details

Up and Running with AutoCAD® 2027: 2D and 3D Drawing, Design and Modeling presents a combination of step-by-step instructions, examples, and insightful explanations. The book emphasizes core concepts and practical application of AutoCAD in engineering, architecture, and design. Equally useful in instructor-led classroom training, self-study, or as a professional reference, the book is written by a long-time AutoCAD professor and instructor with the user in mind. To improve student learning, the early chapters have been revised and expanded with additional assignments, more explicit step-by-step guidance for the earliest assignments, improved readability, and a new concise drafting fundamentals reference section focusing on orthographic projection, basic standards, and naming conventions.

Key Features

• Strips away complexities and reduces AutoCAD® to easy-to-understand, basic concepts
• Teaches the essentials of operating AutoCAD® that build student confidence
• Documents commands with step-by-step explanations, including what the student needs to type in and how AutoCAD® responds
• Combines 2D and 3D content in one affordable volume

New Features

• Updated as needed for the 2027 version of AutoCAD • Chapters 1 and 2 expansions and revision to improve student learning: additional assignments, more explicit step-by-step guidance for the earliest assignments, improved readability by removing references to historic versions • A new concise drafting fundamentals reference section, focusing on orthographic projection, basic standards, naming conventions