- Paperback: 992 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (4 Feb 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0130934984
- ISBN-13: 978-0130934987
- Product Dimensions: 25.6 x 22.5 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,547,311 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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For courses in Architectural Desktop (ADT).
David Madsen takes his best-selling comprehensive, easy-to-use and understandable AutoCAD format and applies it to Architectural Desktop to aid students through all phases of construction document creation—from the earliest stages of conceptual design, through design development, and finally to the finished set of drawings. This book explains commands and applications, and contains a variety of features that enable students to effectively use Architectural Desktop 3.0/3.3 to create real-world construction documents and drawings.
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Architectural Desktop 3.0/3.3: Basics Through Advanced demonstrates this powerful tool in a clear and concise manner, focusing on the highest professional standards. This text is designed to introduce users to the AEC objects and commands used in Architectural Desktop to complete a set of construction documents. The chapters are arranged in an easy-to-understand format, and begin with basic topics working toward advanced subjects. The advanced topics in each chapter are highlighted, allowing instructors and students to focus on the level of material that is most appropriate. Each chapter contains frequent practice exercises, allowing users to perform what they have just learned.
These are some of the outstanding features of the book:
- Learning Objectives: Provided at the beginning of each chapter, these objectives help students identify the main points of the chapter.
- Field Notes: These provide a variety of professional shortcuts, advanced applications, and additional instruction.
- Screen displays and illustrations: Placed with the discussion of every topic, these figures clearly demonstrate the commands and content.
- Learning Checkpoints: This unique feature provides questions after each related content area. This allows users to build confidence by checking their progress.
- Chapter Tests and Drawing Problems: Each chapter has these features to assist students in reviewing and mastering the material.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I am using this after a quick rattle through of the Aubin book to learn AEC. It will appeal to those with little AutoCad experience as it covers drawing basics. So far it seems pretty comprehensive and reasonably well explained however if you try to do the Projects from the CD as a means of improving your understanding you will first have to battle to read the dimensions on the drawings in order to make use of them. The text is fine but the dimensions are so pixillated as to be illegible and if I had known how awkward to read I probably wouldn`t have bought this expensive book. I am astounded that something this bad could be presented to a learning public. Sort it out Marsden Design Associates or David Madsen or Ron Palma or the Publishers. You get one star instead of four + for this reason
Format:Paperback
This was the fourth book I read on Architectural Desktop. I 've used AutoCAD for 7 years and decided to go a bit further. This book was by far the best I read (including Paul Aubin's). I would suggest it to everyone!
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Architectural Desktop3.0/3.3
21 Aug 2003
Format:Paperback
This book provides comprehensive coverage of Autodesk's Architectural Desktop. This is the best book I have found for Architectural Desktop training. The text provides you with easy to read and follow tools and commands needed to create complete sets of construction documents for residential and commercial applications. Screen displays and illustrations accompanying the discussion of every topic clearly demonstrate the commands and topics. Exercises are provided throughout and allow you to practice what you are learning. Each chapter has questions that give you an opportunity to review what you have learned. Learning objectives begin each chapter. There is a great feature called Field Notes that give a variety of professional tips, advanced applications, and additional instruction throughout the book. The projects provided on CD are difficult to read, but the in-text exercises are enough to learn Architectural Desktop.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Good book but useless projects
29 Aug 2002
Format:Paperback
I am using this book to learn AEC after working through the Aubin book. So far so good. However if you try to use the CD to do the Projects you will increase your blood pressure because the dimensions on the diagrams are impossible to read being too pixillated. As the text is fine its not due to them being in pdf so why didn`t someone spot this. This means it is very hard to reinforce the extensive knowledge in the book by doing the projects. I bought the book in the uk for £50 and is not cheap for the CD to be nearly worthless. This could have been "the book for AEC" but the CD blows it for them.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
CD included , (but not meant for exercises!)
24 Feb 2003
Format:Paperback
Forget my previous comments of yesterday made in a fit of frustration. I have discovered that the .dwg files used during the exercises are in fact created by yourself as you go through the book. Duh. The PDF files are useful in their own right. It's a good book! Now where was I... Chapter 2
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