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Referentia for AutoCAD 2000: 3D Design & Drawing in AutoCAD 2000 provides interactive multimedia training on AutoCAD 2000. This popular training course by David Pitzer and Mark Okikawa launches from AutoCADs Help menu to provide integrated product training and performance support on CD. Youll discover how to navigate efficiently in AutoCADs 3D space and how to build both surface and solid models, as well as how to take advantage of your 3D model by presenting it in effective ways. Step-by-step lessons and vivid concept animations cover key techniques for creating and viewing 3D models in AutoCAD, and a powerful Try-It feature lets you load sample projects and practice lesson steps directly in AutoCAD along with narrated and onscreen instructions. Specific topics include: working in 3D with the user coordinate system, viewing your model, thickness and extrusion, plane surfaces, complex surfaces and using solids to model. AIA members earn 40 AIA/CES Learning Units upon completion of the course.