AutoCAD 2019 for Architectural Design: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users

AutoCAD 2019 for Architectural Design: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users

<b><i>AutoCAD 2019 for Architectural Design: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users</i></b> textbook is designed for instructor-led courses as well as for self-paced learning. It is intended to help architects, designers, and CAD operators interested in learning AutoCAD for creating architectural 2D drawings. This textbook is a great help for new AutoCAD users and a great teaching aid in a classroom setting. This textbook consists of 12 chapters, total 488 pages covering tools and commands of the Drafting & Annotation workspace of AutoCAD. This textbook teaches you how to use AutoCAD software to create, edit, plot, and manage real world architectural 2D drawings.<br> <br>This textbook not only focuses on the usage of the tools/commands of AutoCAD but also on the concept of design. Every chapter of this book contains tutorials that instruct users step-by-step how to create architectural drawings with ease. Moreover, every chapter ends with hands-on test drives that allow the users of this textbook to experience themselves the ease-of-use and powerful capabilities of AutoCAD.<br> <br><b>Table of Contents: </b> <br>Chapter 1. Introduction to AutoCAD <br>Chapter 2. Creating Drawings - I <br>Chapter 3. Working with Drawing Aids and Layers <br>Chapter 4. Creating Drawings - II <br>Chapter 5. Modifying and Editing Drawings - I <br>Chapter 6. Working with Blocks and Xrefs <br>Chapter 7. Working with Dimensions and Dimensions Style <br>Chapter 8. Editing Dimensions and Adding Text <br>Chapter 9. Modifying and Editing Drawings - II <br>Chapter 10. Hatching and Gradients <br>Chapter 11. Working with Layouts <br>Chapter 12. Printing and Plotting