"Fill In The Blank"

We've been plannin' this weekend for a week and a half
Hope you ain't thinkin' that we're movin' too fast
This trip can be whatever you want it to
I'll pick where we go and you can pick what we do
We could
In the water, in the truck
On a blanket 'til the sun comes up
With each other on the river bank
Yeah I'll leave it up to you, baby fill in the blank
I know a little spot thirty miles outta town
We can do what we want, won't be nobody around
I love hanging with your friends and your family too
But there's some things that only two people should do
We could
In the water, in the truck
On a blanket 'til the sun comes up
With each other on the river bank
Yeah I'll leave it up to you, baby fill in the blank
We could
In the water, in the truck
On a blanket 'til the sun comes up
With each other on the river bank
Yeah I'll leave it up to you, baby
We could
To some music real slow
'Til we can't no more
If the clouds roll in we could, in the rain
Yeah I'll leave it up to you, baby fill in the blank
Yeah the options are endless, baby fill in the blank
Oh Yeah

For many reasons, AutoCAD is much different from most applications that you will ever use. The main reason goes back some 20 years to when AutoCAD was first introduced as a low-cost CAD solution on microcomputers. (CAD stands for Computer-Aided Drafting or Computer-Aided Design, depending on whom you ask.) Most CAD applications back then ran on very large and expensive mainframe computers, not something that you could take on-site with you.

With the introduction of AutoCAD, CAD wasn’t as foreign of a topic as it once was, but it still had an uphill climb against the wide use and adoption of drafting boards. A drafting board, you might be asking yourself? Yes, prior to computers and CAD, all designs were done with pencil and paper; if you were really good, you used ink and paper. Today, paper still plays a role in distributing designs, but most designs are now done in a CAD application that allows you to do much more complex things that were not possible with board drafting.

As times and drafting practices have changed, AutoCAD has either led in setting the pace for change or has forced change with some things. Some of these changes have helped to usher in the era of improved design collaboration across the Internet and better electronic file sharing with non-CAD users. Since all objects in a drawing are electronic, AutoCAD allows you to quickly manipulate and mange them without the need to break out the eraser shield and eraser as you would on a board. Autodesk continues to improve the way you can visualize designs and concepts through improvements in 3D modeling and other features.

AutoCAD 2007 gives you the tools you need to create accurate 2D and 3D designs, but isn’t very easy to just pick up and become productive right away. This blog helps you get up to speed faster so that you can be productive in all main areas of the application — which include 2D and 3D drafting, printing and sharing designs, and customizing and programming.

The AutoCAD & AutoCAD LT All-in-One Desk Reference For Beginner gives you an understanding of all the main features that you need to know in order to be productive with AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT. The All-in-One Desk References For Beginner are much different from other For Beginner blogs you may have read; more information is crammed between the two covers, and the content is more in-depth. 

This blog is laid out to focus on individual topics and allows you the freedom of moving around between its minibooks. We recommend that if you are not familiar (or somewhat familiar) with AutoCAD that you read through Books I and II before moving on to the other minibooks. After you read this blog, don’t let it run too far from your desk — you will find it helpful as a reference whenever you might need it.