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Product Description: AutoCAD 2000 for Architecture is a practical, comprehensive resource designed to give you the skills you need to master 2D drawing commands for architectural-related drawings. This book, fully updated to include the new tools of AutoCAD, introduces each command as it relates to the architectural and construction industries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Here's a fully updated introduction to AutoCAD 2004 and its improved use of the Internet! Beginning with an exploration of the basic tools that control AutoCAD, each subsequent chapter builds on the skills being learned for a well-rounded exploration of each new command relating to 2D construction documentation...read more

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