Up and Running with AutoCAD 2015

Elliot Gindis is the founding author of the Up and Running with AutoCAD series of textbooks. He is a former AutoCAD drafter and designer who got his start in New York City in 1996 and has logged in over 25,000 hours of screen time with a wide variety of architecture and engineering companies. From 1999 to 2008 he was on staff with the Pratt Institute of Design and as visiting instructor at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), teaching beginner, intermediate, and advanced (3D) AutoCAD classes. He was also the president of Vertical Technologies Consulting and Design, an AutoCAD training firm, and has advised, consulted, or assisted more than 60 companies nationwide in using and optimizing AutoCAD. Elliot was part of the AutoDesk Developers Network and was a Certified Technical Trainer. He published the first edition of the Up and Running textbook with Elsevier in 2010, and has supported each subsequent edition until 2020, when Robert Kaebisch took over full-time. Elliot currently resides in the Los Angeles area, and is an engineer in the defense industry.

Level 11 AutoCAD Fundamentals—Part I2 AutoCAD Fundamentals—Part II3 Layers, Colors, Linetypes, and Properties4 Text, Mtext, Editing, and Style5 Hatch Patterns6 Dimensions7 Blocks, Wblocks, Dynamic Blocks, Groups, and Purge8 Polar, Rectangular and Path Arrays9 Basic Printing and Output10 Advanced Output — Paper SpaceLevel 211 Advanced Linework12 Advanced Layers13 Advanced Dimensions14 Options, Shortcuts, CUI, Design Center, and Express Tools15 Advanced Design and File Management Tools16 Importing and Exporting Data17 External References (Xrefs)18 Attributes19 Advanced Output and Pen Settings 20 Isometric DrawingLevel 321 3D Basics22 Primitives23 Object Manipulation24 Boolean Operations25 Solid Modeling26 Advanced Solids, Faces, and Edges27 Surfaces and Meshes28 UCS, Vports, Text, and Dimensions in 3D29 Dview, Walk and Fly, Animation, and Action Recording30 Lighting and RenderingAppendices