Ventana Press Updates Keys to AutoCAD Users' Productivity

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.--AutoCAD Release 12 from Autodesk renders this premier
design program richer and more versatile than ever. Ventana Press unlocks
the doors to greater productivity with the latest Release 12 updates from
its AutoCAD Reference Library -- AutoCAD: A Concise Guide to Commands and
Features, Third Edition for Release 12, by Ronald W. Leigh and The AutoCAD
Productivity Book: The Non-Programmer's Guide to Customizing AutoCAD,
Fifth Edition, by George O. Head.

A brief yet thorough overview of terms and procedures required to use
AutoCAD effectively, AutoCAD: A Concise Guide, Third Edition, serves as
both a tutorial and a reference. Suitable for beginners, the book opens
with the basics and progresses to more difficult concepts in subsequent
chapters.

AutoCAD: A Concise Guide addresses drawing and editing commands and
presents techniques for effective CAD drafting and design, including:

* AutoCAD startup procedure.
* All basic drawing and editing tasks.
* Using Release 12 RENDER commands.
* Modifying drawings using GRIPS.
* Creating a custom menu.
* Advanced plotting procedures.

Exercises reinforcing the skills taught in the book are included in
appendices, along with a custom menu and tablet overlay and a chart for
estimating personal AutoCAD skills.

The AutoCAD Concise Guide Diskette, available separately for $19.95 from
Ventana Press, allows users to enter the programs and drawings featured
throughout the book directly into the computer and includes the tutorial
drawings featured in the six appendices.

The AutoCAD Productivity Book

"More than ever, AutoCAD now functions as a truly open architecture,"
observes author George O. Head. "Release 12 lets you add your own
enhancements and remove or change features Autodesk has included." The
AutoCAD Productivity Book: A Non-Programmer's Guide to Customizing
AutoCAD, Fifth Edition, by George O. Head, shows users how to optimize
AutoCAD's tools with an eye toward greater efficiency.

The greatly increased customization features of AutoCAD Release 12 require
a higher level of skill and awareness to avoid miscues. With The AutoCAD
Productivity Book, beginning and advanced users alike can take big leaps
in productivity, job security and personal satisfaction by learning to:

* Set up AutoCAD properly on any platform.
* Program dialogue boxes.
* Create Cascade and Cursor menus.
* Build and use icons, hatch patterns and linetypes.
* Avoid pitfalls and AutoCAD "gotchas".

An expanded "AutoCAD Productivity Library" features 30 AutoLISP programs
that help users take AutoCAD's graphic engine to its limits. Appendices
address the effective use of EDLIN, simplifying menu selection using the
menu compiler tool on the companion diskette (available separately) and
turning AutoLISP routines and functions into menu macros.

The AutoCAD Productivity Book Diskette, available separately for $49.95
from Ventana Press, lets users enter the 30 AutoLISP programs and drawings
featured in the "AutoCAD Productivity Library" directly into the computer.
Among the featured routines are a menu editor, metric conversion and Paper
Space programs.

AutoCAD: A Concise Guide author Ronald W. Leigh is "Master Teacher" in the
Computer Aided Design and Drafting Department, the authorized AutoCAD
Training Center at Indiana Vocational Technical College in Fort Wayne,
Indiana. He is the author of Solid Modeling With AutoCAD (Ventana Press).

AutoCAD Productivity Book author George O. Head owns Associated Market
Research, a business and management consulting firm for architects and
engineers, and has written AutoLISP in Plain English and The AutoCAD 3D
Companion (forthcoming) and co-authored 1,000 AutoCAD Tips & Tricks (all
from Ventana Press).

Other Release 12 titles in the Ventana Press AutoCAD Reference Library
include AutoLISP in Plain English, Solid Modeling With AutoCAD, and 1,000
AutoCAD Tips & Tricks. Titles scheduled for release in 1993 include
Outside AutoCAD: A Non-Programmer's Guide to Managing AutoCAD's Database
and The AutoCAD 3D Companion. Companion diskettes for all titles are
available separately.

AutoCAD: A Concise Guide to Commands and Features, Third Edition for
Release 12 is softcover, 7 3/8" x 9 1/4 ", 320 pages with illustrations.
Suggested retail price: $24.95. ISBN: 1-56604-008-6. The companion
diskette is $19.95.

The AutoCAD Productivity Book is softcover, 73/8" x 91/4 ", 282 pages with
illustrations. Suggested retail price: $27.95. ISBN: 1-56604-026-4. The
companion diskette is $49.95.

Ventana Press publishes books and other materials that help computer users
become more productive, including Voodoo DOS, Voodoo Windows, Looking Good
With CorelDRAW! and Desktop Publishing With Word for Windows. All titles
are available in bookstores and through Ventana Press, P.O. Box 2468,
Chapel Hill, NC 27515 -- 919/942-0220; FAX, 919/942-1140

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