AutoCAD Can Take Up Your Life......

Sorry about the delay, but 1100 pages of AutoCAD guidance in seven days really takes up one's life.

Finished up the Social Class book index on May 5. A good analysis of how we do so want to think we're a classless society in America, but....not! As I expected, class even trumps race and gender in helping decide how life goes for people, but not always. What I like about Russell Sage's researchers is that they tell you about all the complexities of an issue, so I get a better perspective than through sound-bites on the news.

I know I indexed an AutoCAD (CAD stands for computer-aided design) book awhile back, but this one was the "bible" for folks looking up more and more specific stuff on how to use this engineering/architectural/mechanical design software. The 3D modeling is the coolest part. Reminds me of computer games like the SIMs where you can build house models, but this is not child's play by any stretch of the imagination. I just wonder how Wiley Publishing can call this a book for dummies. You have to know something to even begin. Not being a designer myself, I've had to absorb what this is about over several projects in the past three years. This book, The AutoCAD Bible For Dummies, gives the best explanation of the relationships among the different elements and concepts involved. I found out that I didn't understand the material as well as I had thought until I was done with this book.

More on what I've been doing since mid-May in the next post....