[.ca] Mastering Autodesk Architectural Desktop (ISBN 1401884784)

Mastering Autodesk Architectural Desktop:
A good book over all but lacks the finer points for using the program. I would recommend the book for someone who has not had much experience using AutoCAD.

Try to figure out how to create i.e. Schedules:
Good book, but it could be better. You have to think the deepest tough to figure out where is the beginning and or the end of many procedures. Try to figure out the best way to approach the creation on a Door Schedule in 2d, for example.Good luck

Great Book:
This is truely a great book for the CAD draftsperson getting into ADT. This book goes into some of the fine details that many manuals miss or skip over. Great job and keep up the good work.

Confusing; Wast time book:
It is the most confusing and waste time book I ever read in this field, AutoCAD. As it is supposed to be as tutor book, It is far from this feature. In many cases it make step 1 step 2 and vise versa. But the most confusing thing is that while you are reading and try to apply what you are reading you look to find if you are doing right you don't find any fugure showing you where you have to click or to where you have to extend some thing or showing you the result of your work. It is all based on guise. The best example are pages 214 to 223 about the stair, railing, and ramp. Talking about his explanation of the display system, it is disaster !!

Avoid this book-Written By Master for Master:
The reason I got this book was the price and some of the good review by buyers. Unfortunitely I didn't take the words of the buyer who gave this book a rating of 1. This book really is confusing. Let me warn you this book is not for beginners or even expert current AutoCAD 2002 users like me. This is more suited for current ADT user upgrading to v3.3. The way the book layout is hard to understand. It start off with the MOST confusing part of CAD,Display. The instructions make you go in circles and by the time you finish all the steps you forget how to do it. Following the instructions are somewhat difficult for a experience 2002 user due to lack of pictures so forget about it being a beginners. I'm sure the people who crafted this book put alot of time on it but it's not a very good layout book. Sorry about the 1 star rating but this is the highest I can give. It's a sure return.