Written specifically for architects, this text helps students learn AutoCAD by actually using it in planning and designing a wide variety of realistic situations. Using a non-technical writing style and hands-on PROMPT/RESPONSE tutorial approach, it takes students step-by-step through the creation of all of the drawings necessary for an architectural project - from floor plans, and elevations, through power and lighting plans, to isometric and three-dimensional drawings. *Covering the latest version of AutoCAD, Release 14, using the Windows operating system, shows the new commands relating to raster images in AutoCAD drawings. *Uses a Computer PROMPT/User RESPONSE format that leads students through each new AutoCAD command - and that allows the text to be used as either a self-paced tutorial or in a lecture-lab situation, each drawing chapter contains from one to four exercises that introduce commands as they are used in a drawing. The step-by-step, PROMPT/RESPONSE sequences take students from starting a drawing to plotting it. *Features exercises that are geared to architects and that provide the opportunity to work with real world situ
Written specifically for architects, this text helps students learn AutoCAD by actually using it in planning and designing a wide variety of realistic situations. Using a non-technical writing style and hands-on PROMPT/RESPONSE tutorial approach, it takes students step-by-step through the creation of all of the drawings necessary for an architectural project - from floor plans, and elevations, through power and lighting plans, to isometric and three-dimensional drawings. *Covering the latest version of AutoCAD, Release 14, using the Windows operating system, shows the new commands relating to raster images in AutoCAD drawings. *Uses a Computer PROMPT/User RESPONSE format that leads students through each new AutoCAD command - and that allows the text to be used as either a self-paced tutorial or in a lecture-lab situation, each drawing chapter contains from one to four exercises that introduce commands as they are used in a drawing. The step-by-step, PROMPT/RESPONSE sequences take students from starting a drawing to plotting it. *Features exercises that are geared to architects and that provide the opportunity to work with real world situ