Best autocad books according to redditors
We found 3 Reddit comments discussing the best autocad books. We ranked the 3 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 3 Reddit comments discussing the best autocad books. We ranked the 3 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
You can probably find better autolisp learning resources these days, but this is what worked for me:
I found a PDF of this book back in the day that had a couple of chapters on scripting and autolisp that explained things in a way that finally got me started. AutoCAD: Secrets Every User Should Know
And a website called AfraLISP. Looks like it's been updated from the cheesy website I remember. They have lots of tutorials and stuff.
When I said "like how the pros play Starcraft", this is what I meant. Korean Gamers: APM Demonstration. My first newbie job was just a lot of straight drafting and I got this fast after about a year of doing it all day and constantly trying to think of every little technique and command I could do to speed things up. The work was dull so I had to make things interesting somehow.
I checked out a couple of weeks of lynda.com from my local library. Plenty of time to get a solid base. Then I picked up "Autocad for Dummies" and a pocket reference.
I wouldn't know because I'm not from the US; always bought them online and had them delivered here.
Sybex has two main learning series: Essentials and Mastering. The first being more focused on exercises and examples for quickly making you productive and the latter is a much more comprehensive book (but also covers the basics). Also Essentials books are about 400 pages long while Mastering don't go below the 1000 pages.
Sybex
Amazon
Most of the 2014 version of the books are going to be publised during July, you could tinker around with the programs until then; Autodesk has some tutorials and learning materials available, specially if you're registered as a student.