Bill Fane - AutoCAD 2014 For Dummies

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About the Authors

Bill Fane is a recovering doorknob designer. He was a product engineer and then product engineering manager for Weiser Lock in Vancouver, Canada, for 27 years and holds 12 U.S. patents. He has been using AutoCAD for design work since Version 2.17g (1986) and Inventor since version 1.0 beta (1996). He is a retired professional engineer and an Autodesk Authorized Training Center (ATC) certified instructor.

He began teaching mechanical design in 1996 at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) in Vancouver, including such courses as AutoCAD, Mechanical Desktop, Inventor, SolidWorks, machine design, term projects, manufacturing processes, and design procedures. He retired from this position in 2008.

He has lectured on a wide range of AutoCAD and Inventor subjects at Autodesk University since 1995 and at Destination Desktop since 2003. He is the AUGI CAD Camp National Team instructor for the manufacturing track. He has written over 220 The Learning Curve columns for CADalyst magazine since 1986 and claims to be a close personal friend of Captain LearnCurve. He also writes software product reviews for CADalyst, Design Product News, and Machine Design . He is an active member of the Vancouver AutoCAD Users Society, the worlds oldest and most dangerous.

In his spare time he skis, water-skis, windsurfs, scuba dives, sails a Hobie Cat, rides an off-road motorcycle, drives his 37 Rolls-Royce limousine or his wifes 89 Bentley Turbo R, travels extensively with his wife, and plays with his grandchildren.

David Byrnes is one of those grizzled old-timers youll find mentioned every so often in AutoCAD 2014 For Dummies . He began his drafting career on the boards in 1979 and first learned AutoCAD with version 1.4. Dave is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he works as a civil/structural drafter. He taught AutoCAD for 15 years at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and British Columbia Institute of Technology in Vancouver. Dave has authored or coauthored over a dozen AutoCAD books and was sole author of this title from AutoCAD 2008 For Dummies to AutoCAD 2012 For Dummies .

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