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This new edition includes many features designed to help you master AutoCAD 2009:
- The prompt-response format is now clearly defined with numbered steps. This step- by-step approach is used in the beginning tutorials of all chapters and then moves to an outline form in exercises at the end of most chapters. This allows students to learn commands in a drawing situation and then practice applying them on their own.
- Tutorials are geared to architects, interior designers, and space planners, allowing students to work with real-world situations.
- More than 500 illustrations (many printed to scale) support the text and reinforce the material.
- Screen shots help the user locate AutoCAD commands within the AutoCAD men and ribbons.
- Boxed "Tips" and "Notes" give students additional support and information.
- Practice exercises in every chapter review the commands learned.
- Learning objectives and review questions in every chapter reinforce the learning process.
- An on-line Instructor's Manual (which is updated with new exercises between editions) is available to support the text.
Organized around architectural projects, AutoCAD for Interior Design and Space Planning gives students an understanding of the commands and features of AutoCAD 2009 and demonstrates how to use the program to complete interior design and space planning projects. Building on 13 years of updates, the book is appropriate for self-paced and lecture classes and covers both two-dimensional and three-dimensional drawings.
Throughout the tutorials in this book, numbered steps in bold type provide instructions. Prompt and Response columns in the numbered steps provide step-by-step instructions for starting and completing a command. The Prompt column text repeats the AutoCAD prompt that appears in the Command area of the AutoCAD screen. The Response column text shows how you should respond to the AutoCAD prompt. Blue ruled lines separate the numbered steps from further discussion and explanation. Screen shots of menus show you how to locate the command you are using.
Using numerous illustrations, the text captures the essence of this powerful program and the importance it plays in the interior design, architecture, and space planning professions.
Most importantly, this text was written to help you, the reader, master the AutoCAD program, which will be a valuable tool in your professional career.
From the Preface
AutoCAD has become the industry standard graphics program for interior design and space planning. This program is used to complete the many drawings that make up a design project. Many design firms have adopted as their standard because:
- It saves time.
- Affiliated professions have chosen it so that they can exchange files and work on the same drawing.
- Their competitors use it.
- Their clients expect it.
To be successful in design today, students must be proficient in the use of AutoCAD as it relates to interior design and space planning. The need for an AutoCAD textbook geared specifically to this field is what led us to write AutoCAD for Interior Design and Space Planning.
The newly updated text for AutoCAD 2009 is divided into three parts:
- Part 1: Preparing to Draw with AutoCAD (Chapter 1)
- Part 2: Two-Dimensional AutoCAD (Chapters 2-13)
- Part 3: Three-Dimensional AutoCAD (Chapters 14-16)
Table of Contents
Part 1: Preparing to Draw with AutoCAD. Chapter 1: Introducing the AutoCAD Screen. Part 2: Two-Dimensional AutoCAD. Chapter 1: Drawing with AutoCAD: Basic Settings and Commands. Chapter 2: Conference and Lecture Rooms. Chapter 3: Adding Text, Tables and Raster Images to the Drawing. Chapter 4: Printing and plotting. Chapter 5: Drawing the Floor Plan: Walls, Doors, and Windows. Chapter 6: Dimensioning and Area Calculations. Chapter 7: Drawing Elevations, Wall Sections, and Details. Chapter 8: Drawing the Furniture Plan: Adding Specifications and Extracting Data. Chapter 9: Design Center, Dynamic Blocks, and External References. Chapter 10: Drawing the Reflected Ceiling Plan and Voice/Data/Power Plan. Chapter 11: Isometric Drawing and Gradient Hatch Rendering. Chapter 12: Creating Presentations with Layouts and Sheet Sets. Part 3: Three-Dimensional AutoCAD. Chapter 1: Solid Modeling. Chapter 2: Complex Solid Models with Materials, Lighting, Rendering and Animation. Chapter 3: Advanced Modeling. |
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