AutoCAD 2021 for Architectural Design: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users 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 2D architectural drawings. This textbook is a great help for new AutoCAD users and a great teaching aid for classroom training. This textbook consists of 12 chapters, and a total of 488 pages covering tools and commands of the Drafting & Annotation workspace of AutoCAD. The textbook teaches you to use AutoCAD software for creating, editing, plotting, and managing real world 2D architectural drawings.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction to AutoCAD
Chapter 2. Creating Drawings - I
Chapter 3. Working with Drawing Aids and Layers
Chapter 4. Creating Drawings - II
Chapter 5. Modifying and Editing Drawings - I
Chapter 6. Working with Blocks and Xrefs
Chapter 7. Working with Dimensions and Dimensions Style
Chapter 8. Editing Dimensions and Adding Text
Chapter 9. Modifying and Editing Drawings - II
Chapter 10. Hatching and Gradients
Chapter 11. Working with Layouts
Chapter 12. Printing and Plotting