Beverly Kirkpatrick BFA NCIDQ Adjunct Faculty - AutoCAD for Interior Design and Space Planning

This text uses the features of AutoCAD 2022 in a variety of exercises specifically for interior design and architecture. Features include:

In the chart, the data related to chapter objectives, tutorial 2-1, drawing window and graphics, and command grids are presented. Following text are provided under each section, Chapter Objective: Chapter objectives with a bulleted list of learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter provide users with a roadmap to the commands, concepts, and practices to be introduced. Tutorial 2-1: Because users need a lot of practice, Chapter 2, Quick-Start Tutorials, challenges the user to make 2D drawings. These tutorials are designed with special step-by-step instructions that will walk the reader through the entire development process while raising interest in mastering the content to come in the rest of the chapters. Drawing window and graphics: The first appearance of each key term is bold and italic within the running text and accompanied by a brief definition in the margin. The glossary at the end of the book contains a complete list of the key terms and more detailed definitions to help students understand and use the language of the computer-aided drafting (CAD) world. Command grids: Command Grids appear in the margin alongside the discussion of the command or the particular exercise in which it is demonstrated. These grids provide specific information about the ways of invoking each command, including any of the following: ribbon panel, toolbar icon, pull-down menu, command line, and command alias.

In the chart, the data related to tip, note, for more details, exercise 1-1, chapter summary, and chapter projects are presented. Following text are provided under each section, Tip, note, for more details: Tip, Note, and For More Details boxes highlight additional helpful information for the student. Such information may contain dos and donts, facts, warnings, and alternative ways of proceeding, as well as cross-references to other chapters and topics. Exercise 1-1: New to AutoCAD. 2022 icons indicate the commands and tools that are new to this specific release of the program. This feature allows instructors and other users to quickly identify topic that are completely new, saving them a good amount of research time. It also demonstrates to students the recent improvements to the AutoCAD software, as well as the valuable updated information contained in this textbook. This book uses many of the features new to the software since the previous release of this book for AutoCAD 2015. Chapter summary: End-of-Chapter material can easily be located by the shading on the page edges. This material will help students evaluate and practice the knowledge they've acquired about the most important concepts explained in the chapter. This material's content includes: chapter summary, chapter test questions, multiple choice, matching, true or false, list (five different ways of executing commands in AutoCAD 2022). Chapter projects: Chapter Projects are additional assignments located at the end of each chapter in which students are directed to solve particular tasks on their own. The projects are labeled as basic, intermediate, and advanced according to the degree of complexity. Students will use the knowledge acquired throughout the chapter as well as in previous chapters in completing these assignments.