AutoCAD® 2012 FOR DUMMIES®

Author's Acknowledgments

Thanks, first of all, to former author Mark Middlebrook for bringing me into the AutoCAD For Dummies world. Mark asked me to tech edit AutoCAD 2000 For Dummies, then to join him as co-author of AutoCAD 2006 For Dummies, and finally to take over the title altogether. I hope my torch bearing comes close to the high standards that Mark set, and I wish him well in his new career in the world of fine wine (what, me jealous?).

Thanks, too, to colleagues and friends at Autodesk: above all Guillermo Melantoni, Heidi Hewett, and Bud Schroeder, who never seem to mind being asked even the dumbest questions. And speaking of colleagues, thanks to my cubicle-mates at Sandwell for showing me how things are done in the real world of engineering.

At Wiley, Acquisitions Editor Kyle Looper was a reliable source of calm but firm direction. It was a pleasure to work with project editor Pat O'Brien again, and copy editor Barry Child-Helton pointed out where I mixed up my Ps and my Qs. And thanks, finally, to Lee Ambrosius who did his usual sterling job of tech editing.