This is the first of a series of tutorial introductions to CAD. The overriding aim with these tutorial guides is to give you a firm conceptual understanding of CAD, the scope of techniques available for design and presentation, and strategies for approaching a variety of CAD tasks.

In this first tutorial, we will go through the process of starting up AutoCAD on the computer and then look at some of the basic drawing and editing commands. In the next tutorial, we will begin the process of drawing something very simple in order to learn how to attack a drawing task with this system. These tutorials are deliberately verbose, explaining concepts and ideas as you along. It is important, therefore, that you take the time to read and understand those explanations.

These tutorials are written for AutoCAD 2000 running under the Windows 95/98 operating environment. Some of the later tutorials make use of enhancement packages that are sold in conjunction with AutoCAD to address specific disciplinary CAD modelling tasks.

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