Introducing AutoCAD 2009 and AutoCAD LT 2009 covers the basic drawing and editing
tools that most users will need to produce quality AutoCAD drawings. You won’t find
information about every last feature. Instead, this book presents AutoCAD’s essential
features through a combination of tutorials and reference material to give you a concise,
easy-to-use companion for your work with AutoCAD. It’s designed so that you can
quickly learn the tools you need when you need them.
Most chapters start with tutorials covering basic concepts on a particular topic so that
you can understand how AutoCAD works in a general way. Later parts of the chapter
provide reference material to help you with specific tasks. For example, in Chapter 9, a
tutorial at the beginning gives you the basic steps for creating and formatting text. After
that, the chapter goes into more depth to show you how to use other features, such as how
to import text, how to size and scale text, and how to create tables.