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Includes the following features to help users learn, practice and master AutoCAD skills.
- Project-based approach guides users through the software in a logical way.
- An easy-to-follow "prompt/response" format takes users step by step through each new command/activity.
- Highlighted information boxes - Tips, Warnings and Notes - help new AutoCAD users become more comfortable with the software.
- Practice exercises in every chapter reinforce understanding of commands.
- Activities geared for architects, interior designers, and space planners immediately apply concepts within context.
- New exercises use new and enhanced AutoCAD commands, such as:
- Attribute extraction
- Rendering
- Gradient hatch and draw order
- Sheet sets
- Tables
- New exercises use raster images to make business cards and similar items.
- New exercises give practice working from architectural sketches.
- A real-world design project, the tenant space project, spans multiple chapters and contains step-by-step instructions for drawing each specific stage of the project.
- Coverage of dynamic input and dynamic blocks.
- Numerous figures and illustrations.
- Review questions at the end of every chapter.
- Icon identifies features new to AutoCAD 2006, allowing for easier updating of skills.
Organized around architectural projects, AutoCAD for Interior Design and Space Planning gives students a fundamental understanding of the commands and features of AutoCAD 2006 and demonstrates how to use the program to complete interior design and space planning projects. Appropriate for both self-paced and lecture classes, the text covers two-dimensional drawings, three-dimensional drawings, and special topics such as isometric drawings and presentations that include layouts, a sheet set, and web page. Using numerous illustrations, a prompt-response format and innovative exercises, the text captures the essence of this powerful program and the importance it plays in the interior design, architecture and space planning professions.
Features:
Uses a prompt-response format in the beginning exercises of all chapters.
- Guides readers through each new AutoCAD command in a systematic manner.
- Encourages students to learn commands and features on their own.
- Contains margin art that helps users locate AutoCAD commands within the AutoCAD menus and toolbars.
Progresses from basic commands to complex drawing exercises in Chapters 4 through 16.
- Builds confidence and basic skills before moving on to more complex assignments.
- Ensures students have mastered the fundamental features and commands of the AutoCAD program before they apply it to comprehensive design problems.
Incorporates a sample design project (Tenant Space project) in Chapters 8 through 14.
- Includes step-by-step instructions for drawing each stage of the project and reinforces the progressive nature of the text.
Provides over 80 exercises appropriate for interior design, space planning and architecture students throughout the text.
- Gives students the opportunity to work with a variety of real-world situations, including both commercial and residential projects.
- Highlights four projects (Office Plan I, Office Plan II, House Plan, Country Club Plan) submitted by designers presently working in the field.
- Includes assignments such as designing an office floor plan, creating a house lighting and outlet plan and drawing a solid model of a sofa.
Includes over 500 figures throughout the text.
- Shows many drawings to scale so students can assess and check their understanding of chapter material.
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