Acknowledgments

Many talented and hardworking folks gave their best effort to produce Mastering AutoCAD for Mac. I offer my sincerest gratitude to those people who helped bring this book to you.

Heartfelt thanks go to the editorial and production teams at Sybex for their efforts. Willem Knibbe, as always, made sure things got off to a great start and was always there for support. Candace English kept a watchful eye on the progress of the book. Lee Ambrosius did an excellent job of ensuring that we didn’t make any glaring mistakes and offered suggestions based on his own writing experience. On the production side, Rachel Gigliotti kept the workflow going and answered my dumb questions during the review process, and Judy Flynn made sure we weren’t trying out new uses of the English language. I can’t forget my son Charles, for helping with the reviews of the earlier chapters.

At Autodesk, special thanks go to Rob Maguire for taking the time from his busy schedule to write the foreword. Thanks for the kind words. Thanks also go to Denis Cadu, who has always given his steadfast support of our efforts over many projects. Jim Quanci always gives his generous and thoughtful assistance to us author types. We’d be lost without your help, Jim. Thanks also go to Barbara Vezos and Richard Lane for their assistance. As always, a big thanks to Shaan Hurley, Lisa Crounse, and the Autodesk beta team for generously allowing us to have a look at the prerelease software.

And finally, a big thank-you goes to Rick Graham for making such a huge contribution to this book as coauthor.

—George Omura

Thanks to my wonderful wife Melony, for putting up without me during the preparation of this book. Thanks to George Omura for a fine series of books and allowing me to be a part of this. Thanks to the AutoCAD for Mac team for all the work you’ve done to make this the product it is today. And last, thanks to Willem Knibbe and all the folks who work behind the scenes at Sybex to make sure what is published is the absolute best.

—Rick Graham