VENTANA PRESS UPDATES PRIMER ON AME 
VERSION 2.1 FOR AUTOCAD RELEASE 12

Chapel Hill, NC--Just in time for AutoCAD Release 12, Ventana Press
announces the publication of Solid Modeling With AutoCAD, Second Edition,
by veteran AutoCAD author Ronald W. Leigh. This new edition explores in
depth the streamlined commands in the Release 12 version of Autodesk's 3D
tool kit, Advanced Modeling Extension (AME) version 2.1.

Complete with an eye-catching color section, Solid Modeling With AutoCAD,
Second Edition is the only book to date focusing strictly on AME. The
easy-to-read volume enables design professionals to exploit the
improvements in AME version 2.1 to create vivid three-dimensional models
with simple 3D shapes.

Newly compiled for a 32-bit format, AME version 2.1 features clearer
pictures, an enlarged drawing size, ease of use and speed, bringing it in
line with 486 PCs. Solid Modeling With AutoCAD, Second Edition presents
AME's new time-saving commands, including:

Solid Modeling With AutoCAD, Second Edition, from Ventana Press, covers AME
version 2.1 for AutoCAD Release 12.

* SOLPROF, for generating 2D engineering drawings.
* SOLCUT, for creating cutaway drawings.
* SOLINTERF, for spotting interferences between components 
  in an assembly.
* The Region Modeler, for making 2D analyses.
* REGEN, for refreshing whole entities in the database.
* REDRAW, for refreshing the screen.

"The enhancements in AME 2.1 offer more flexibility and just plain
convenience," Leigh says. "The new commands for setting up the UCS (User
Coordinate System) and making multiple interference checks in one
operation are especially helpful."

After presenting the advantages of solid models over the wire frame and
surface shell models traditionally used in CAD, Leigh introduces AME and
its building blocks: 3D "primitives"--boxes, cylinders, spheres, wedges,
cones and other simple forms--that can be joined to create complex solid
models. Given a shaded outer shell, such solid models are
realistic-looking 3D drawings that can be edited, scaled, taken apart,
reassembled and used to calculate volume, center of gravity and other mass
properties.

Solid Modeling With AutoCAD, Second Edition is one of five titles in the
highly respected Ventana Press AutoCAD Reference Library. Other titles
scheduled for Release 12 updates include: 1,000 AutoCAD Tips & Tricks,
AutoLISP in Plain English, AutoCAD: A Concise Guide to Commands and
Features and The AutoCAD Productivity Book.

Taken together, these titles form the most complete body of AutoCAD
knowledge available, with specific emphasis on customizing AutoCAD,
managing and accessing its database, using AutoLISP to speed work and
drawing and rendering in 3D and solid models. The set also includes the
top-selling collection of AutoCAD "tips and tricks" on the market.

Author Ronald W. Leigh is an AutoCAD teacher and consultant, and author of
AutoCAD: A Concise Guide to Commands and Features, also published by
Ventana Press.

Solid Modeling With AutoCAD, Second Edition includes a color signature and
is softcover, 7 3/8" X 9 1/4", 296 pages. ISBN: 1-56604-004-3. Suggested
retail price: $29.95.

Ventana Press publishes books and other materials that help professionals
become more productive, including the best-selling Looking Good in Print,
The Presentation Design Book, The Mac Shareware 500 Book/Disk Set and
Voodoo Windows. All titles are available from fine bookstores and
wholesalers and through Ventana Press, P.O. Box 2468, Chapel Hill, NC
27515. For further information, contact Diane Lennox, 919/942-0220; FAX:
919/942-1140.

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