Product Description
For courses in Interior Design, Space Planning, Computer-Aided Design, Computer Graphics and Architectural Graphics.
This manual teaches users how to make architectural drawings using a computer and the AutoCAD 2004 program. This easy-to-understand book employs the prompt-response format in beginning exercises of all chapters to allow users to learn commands in a drawing situation. The text then provides exercises so users can apply the commands on their own. New features of AutoCAD Release 2004 are described—e.g.: redesigned AutoCAD Design Center, modeless dialog boxes, new gradient hatch patterns for rendering isometric and two-dimensional drawings, and easy printing and plotting of 3-D rendered models.
From the Back Cover
This text is written specifically for students and practitioners of interior design and covers 2- and 3-dimensional aspects of AutoCAD® 2004. It 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
- Activities geared for architects, interior designers, and space planners
- A real-world design project, the tenant space project, which spans multiple chapters and contains step-by-step instructions for drawing each specific stage of the project
- Numerous figures and illustrations
- Review questions at the end of every chapter
- Icon identifies features new to AutoCAD® 2004