Ventana Updates AutoCAD Tutorials

New Release 13 titles now contain Companion Disk

Chapel Hill, N.C., February 27, 1995--AutoCAD's Release 13 now brings full
Windows functionality to this premier design program. Helping users keep
pace, Ventana Press offers updates to its popular AutoCAD Reference
Library with the release of two new revisions--AutoCAD: A Concise Guide to
Commands and Features, Fourth Edition, and AutoCAD 3D Companion, Second
Edition.

By carefully working through each section in AutoCAD: A Concise Guide,
readers gain a solid understanding of the software and learn how to
increase efficiency and productivity. AutoCAD: A Concise Guide includes:

* Overviews of new features of solid modeling and rendering in
  Release 13.
* A guide to mastering AutoCAD's Windows features--using OLE and DDE
  to copy, cut and paste vectors and bitmaps on the Clipboard, and
  more.
* Appendices packed with supplementary information on tablet menus,
  overlays and attributes.
* A Companion Disk containing a library of drawing and editing
  exercises, custom menu files, and 2D and 3D AutoLISP utility
  programs.

Targeted to more advanced users, AutoCAD 3D Companion, Second Edition,
addresses the key three-dimensional capabilities that highlight Release
13, including:

* An examination of basic tools--including the User Coordinate System,
  DVIEW, view ports, surfaces and Paper Space.
* Special sections on the new features of solid modeling and rendering
  in Release 13.
* Practical applications of concepts in mechanical and architectural
  tutorials.
* A Companion Disk containing a complete 3D toolkit with more than
  50 unique ready-to-run AutoLISP routines.

A unique feature of both AutoCAD: A Concise Guide and AutoCAD 3D Companion
is their Online Companion, developed by Ventana Online and residing on
Ventana's World Wide Web server. The Online Companion provides access to
an archive of free AutoCAD programs available on the Internet and hot
links to other Internet CAD resources. The URL for the AutoCAD Reference
Library is http://www.vmedia.com/autocad.html.

AutoCAD: A Concise Guide and AutoCAD 3D companion are the latest titles in
Ventana Press's AutoCAD Reference Library, which also includes: 1,000
AutoCAD Tips and Tricks, Fourth Edition; AutoLISP in Plain English, Fifth
Edition; The AutoCAD Productivity Book, Sixth Edition; and The AutoCAD
Reference Library Deluxe CD-ROM.

Author Steven Elliot is president of Visual Language Systems Inc., and
teaches AutoCAD and multimedia applications in Palos Hills, Ill.

Author George O. Head is co-owner of Associated Market Research, a Rhode
Island-based consulting firm for architects and engineers, and authored
three other titles in the AutoCAD Reference Library series.

Author Ronald W. Leigh is ranked "Master Teacher" in the drafting/CAD
Technology Program at Indiana Vocational Technical College.

Author and editor Brian Matthews is department head and director of the
AutoCAD Training Center at Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh,
N.C. Matthews also serves as technical editor for all AutoCAD Reference
Library titles.

AutoCAD: A Concise Guide to Commands and Features, Fourth Edition
696 pages, illustrated, with disk and an Online Companion.
Leigh, Elliot, Matthews. ISBN: 1-56604-139-2. $27.95.

AutoCAD 3D Companion, Second Edition
616 pages, illustrated, with disk and an Online Companion.
Head. ISBN: 1-56604-142-2. $34.95

Ordering Information: All titles are available in bookstores and computer
stores; by writing Ventana Press, PO Box 2468, Chapel Hill, NC 27515; by
calling Ventana's toll-free order line, 800/743-5369; by faxing Ventana at
919/942-1140; by sending e-mail to orders@vmedia.com; or via the World
Wide Web at http://www.vmedia.com/index.html.

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