Book description
AutoCAD 2015 for Interior Design and Space Planning helps students understand the commands and features of AutoCAD 2015 and demonstrates how to use the program to complete interior design and space planning projects. Covering both two- and three-dimensional drawings, the text provides abundant exercises that walk students step-by-step through the use of AutoCAD prompts and commands. 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. Features include:
Covers new AutoCAD 2015 interface
Progresses from basic commands to complex drawing exercises.
Provides over 100 exercises and projects.
Highlights seven projects appropriate for interior design, space planning and architecture students.
Includes coverage of the AutoCAD DesignCenter
Covers solid modeling in two chapters
Table of contents
- About This eBook
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Features of AutoCAD® 2015 for Interior Design and Space Planning
- Instructor Resources
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Preface
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Hallmark Features
- Progresses from Basic Commands to Complex Drawing Exercises
- Provides More Than 100 Exercises and Projects
- Highlights Seven Projects Appropriate for Interior Design, Space Planning, and Architecture Students
- Includes More Than 600 Figures
- Introduces the AutoCAD DesignCenter
- Covers Solid Modeling in Two Chapters
- New to This Edition
- Acknowledgments
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Hallmark Features
- Style Conventions in AutoCAD® 2015 for Interior Design and Space Planning
- Contents
- New to AutoCAD 2015
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Part One: Preparing to Draw with AutoCAD
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Chapter 1. Introducing the AutoCAD User Interface
- Introduction
- Drawing Window and Graphics Cursor
- Application Menu Button
- Major Ways to Input/Select a Command
- Ribbon
- Command Line Window (<Ctrl>+9)
- Quick Access Toolbar
- Customize Quick Access Toolbar Down Arrow and Show Menu Bar
- AutoCAD Toolbars
- User Coordinate System Icon
- Viewport Label Menus
- ViewCube
- Navigation Bar
- Infocenter
- Status Bar
- Modify and Save a Workspace
- Getting Help in AutoCAD 2015
- Close AutoCAD
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Test Questions
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Chapter 1. Introducing the AutoCAD User Interface
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Part Two: Two-Dimensional AutoCAD
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Chapter 2. Quick-Start Tutorials: Basic Settings and Commands
- Introduction
- Following the Tutorials in This Book
- Beginning an AutoCAD Drawing
- Saving the Drawing
- Units
- Controlling Your Drawing
- Drawing Scale
- Drawing Limits and the Cartesian Coordinate System
- Grid
- GRIDDISPLAY
- Zoom
- Drafting Settings Dialog Box
- Layers
- Linetypes
- Lineweights
- Annotation Scale
- Saving the Drawing
- Using the Mouse and Right-Click Customization
- Ortho
- Drawing Lines Using the Grid Marks and Snap Increments
- Erase and Undo
- Drawing Lines Using Absolute Coordinates
- Drawing Lines Using Relative Coordinates
- Drawing Lines Using Polar Coordinates
- Drawing Lines Using Direct Distance Entry
- DYN
- Circle
- LTSCALE
- ZOOM
- PAN REALTIME
- Transparent Commands
- REDRAW
- REGEN
- HIGHLIGHT
- Move and Editing Commands Selection Set
- Grips
- UNDO and REDO
- ARC
- ELLIPSE
- DONUT
- SCALE
- Adding Text
- Command Lines of Prompt History
- Plot - Name
- Page Setup
- Printer/Plotter
- Plot to File
- Browse for Plot File...
- Plot Style Table (Pen Assignments)
- Paper Size
- Plot Area
- Plot Scale
- Annotative Property and Annotation Scale
- Plot Offset (Origin Set to Printable Area)
- Shaded Viewport Options
- Plot Options
- Drawing Orientation
- Preview...
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Test Questions
- Chapter Projects
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Chapter 3. Drawing with AutoCAD: Conference and Lecture Rooms
- Drawing Template
- Polyline
- OFFSET
- EXPLODE
- ID Point
- TRIM
- Rectangle
- CHAMFER
- FILLET
- COPY and Osnap-Midpoint
- ROTATE
- POINT
- DIVIDE
- MEASURE
- OSNAP
- Copy, Osnap-Midpoint, Osnap-Node
- MIRROR
- Osnap Modes That Snap to Specific Drawing Features
- Running Osnap Modes
- Osnap Settings: Marker, Aperture, Magnet, Tooltip
- Solid Walls Using Polyline and Solid Hatch
- From
- BREAK
- Polyline Edit
- HATCH
- ARRAY
- Path
- ARRAYEDIT
- Distance
- Polyline
- POLYGON
- Grips—Add Vertex
- Grips—Convert to Arc
- ARRAY
- Polar Tracking
- Polyline Edit
- Tracking
- Draw the Chairs around the Conference Table
- Complete the Conference Room
- Sync my Settings
- Command Preview
- Selection Enhancements
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Test Questions
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Chapter Projects
- Project 3-1: Rectangular Lecture Room Including Furniture [BASIC]
- Project 3-2: Curved Conference Room Including Furniture [INTERMEDIATE]
- Project 3-3: Custom Area Rug [ADVANCED]
- Project 3-4: Video Conference Room Including Furniture [BASIC]
- Project 3-5: Rectangular Conference Room Including Furniture [INTERMEDIATE]
- Project 3-6: Conference Room with Angles Including Furniture [ADVANCED]
- Chapter 4. Adding Text and Tables to the Drawing
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Chapter 5. Advanced Plotting: Using Plot Styles, Paper Space, Multiple Viewports, and PDF Files
- Layer Names, Colors, and Lineweights
- Plot Styles
- Model, Layout1, and Layout2 Tabs
- Insert an Entire Drawing into a Current Drawing
- Page Setup Manager
- Copy a Viewport
- Center and Scale the Plans
- Complete the Layout
- Viewports (VPORTS)
- Use MVIEW to Restore the Viewport VP4 into Layout1
- Page Setup Manager
- Center and Scale the Plans
- Complete the Layout
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Test Questions
- Chapter Projects
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Chapter 6. Drawing the Floor Plan: Walls, Doors, and Windows
- The Tenant Space Project
- RECTANGLE
- HATCH
- ARRAY
- Multiline Style
- Multiline
- Edit Multiline
- EXTEND
- PROPERTIES
- LIST
- COLOR
- Linetype
- Lineweight
- Make Object’s Layer Current
- Match Properties
- Block-Make
- Wblocks
- Insert-Block
- Annotative Text
- Inserting Entire Drawings as Blocks
- Advantages of Using Blocks
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Test Questions
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Chapter Projects
- Project 6-1: Hotel Room 2 Floor Plan [BASIC]
- Project 6-2: Wheelchair-Accessible Commercial Restroom Floor Plan [INTERMEDIATE]
- Project 6-3: Bank Floor Plan [ADVANCED]
- Project 6-4: Log Cabin Floor Plan [INTERMEDIATE]
- Project 6-5: House 1 Floor Plan [ADVANCED]
- Project 6-6: House 2 Floor Plan [ADVANCED]
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Chapter 7. Dimensioning and Area Calculations
- Eight Basic Types of Dimensions
- Dimensioning Variables
- Set the Dimensioning Variables Using the Dim: Prompt
- Set the Dimensioning Variables Using the Dimension Style Manager Dialog Box
- Fit Tab—Scale for Dimension Features
- Use Overall Scale of: (DIMSCALE)
- Annotative
- Linear and Continue Dimensioning
- Aligned Dimensioning
- Baseline Dimensioning
- Dimension Break
- Adjust Space
- DIMASSOC System Variable
- Associative Dimension Commands
- Oblique
- Align Text-Home-Angle-Left-Center-Right
- Override
- Update
- Defpoints Layer
- PROPERTIES
- Match Properties
- Grips
- Revision Cloud
- Area
- Cal
- QUICKCALC
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Test Questions
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Chapter Projects
- Project 7-1: Hotel Room 2 Dimensioned Floor Plan [BASIC]
- Project 7-2: Wheelchair-Accessible Commercial Restroom Dimensioned Floor Plan [INTERMEDIATE]
- Project 7-3: Bank Dimensioned Floor Plan [ADVANCED]
- Project 7-4: Log Cabin Dimensioned Floor Plan [INTERMEDIATE]
- Project 7-5: House 1 Dimensioned Floor Plan [ADVANCED]
- Project 7-6: House 2 Dimensioned Floor Plan [ADVANCED]
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Chapter 8. Drawing Elevations, Sections, and Details
- Introduction
- UCS
- UCS Icon
- Mirror
- Stretch
- Prepare to Use the Hatch Command with the Add: Select Objects Boundary Option
- Hatch; Hatch and Gradient Dialog Box; Hatch Tab
- More Options
- Edit Hatch
- OTRACK
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Test Questions
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Chapter Projects
- Project 8-1: Detail Drawing of a Bar Rail [BASIC]
- Project 8-2: Wheelchair-Accessible Commercial Restrooms Elevation [INTERMEDIATE]
- Project 8-3: Drawing a Mirror and Sections of a Mirror from a Sketch [ADVANCED]
- Project 8-4, Part 1: Log Cabin Kitchen Elevation 1 [BASIC]
- Project 8-4, Part 2: Log Cabin Kitchen Elevation 2 [BASIC]
- Project 8-5: Family Room, House 1 Elevation [ADVANCED]
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Chapter 9. Drawing the Furniture Installation Plan, Adding Specifications, and Extracting Data
- Introduction
- Draw the Furniture Symbols
- Define Attributes... (ATTDEF)
- Edit Text (DDEDIT)
- QP (Quick Properties)
- Properties
- WBLOCK the Furniture with Attributes Symbol
- Insert the Wblock with Attributes into the Drawing
- Complete the Tenant Space Furniture Installation Plan
- Edit Attribute, Single...
- Edit Attribute, Global
- Attribute Display (ATTDISP)
- Redefining an Inserted Block with Attributes Using the BLOCK Command
- Block Attribute Manager (BATTMAN)
- Synchronize Attributes (ATTSYNC)
- Data Extraction...
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Test Questions
- Chapter Projects
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Chapter 10. DesignCenter, Autodesk Seek, Dynamic Blocks, and External References
- Introduction
- The DesignCenter
- Use Block Editor to Make Dynamic Blocks
- XATTACH (Attach External Reference)
- External Reference (XREF)
- XBIND
- Features of External References
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Test Questions
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Chapter Projects
- Project 10-1: Dynamic Block (Table and Chair) with Stretch and Move Actions [BASIC]
- Project 10-2: Dynamic Block (Bed) [BASIC]
- Project 10-3: Condo Floor Plan with External References [ADVANCED]
- Project 10-4: Log Cabin Floor Plan with External References [INTERMEDIATE]
- Project 10-5: House 1 Floor Plan with External References [ADVANCED]
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Chapter 11. Drawing the Reflected Ceiling Plan and Voice/Data/Power Plan
- Introduction
- Tenant Space Lighting Legend Symbols
- Tenant Space Reflected Ceiling Plan
- Tenant Space Voice/Data/Power Legend Symbols
- Tenant Space Voice/Data/Power Plan
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Test Questions
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Chapter Projects
- Project 11-1: Hotel Room 2 Power/Communication/Lighting Legend and Plan [BASIC]
- Project 11-2: Wheelchair-Accessible Commercial Restroom Lighting Legend and Plan [INTERMEDIATE]
- Project 11-3, Part 1: Bank Lighting Legend and Reflected Ceiling Plan [ADVANCED]
- Project 11-3, Part 2: Bank Voice/Data/Power Legend and Plan [ADVANCED]
- Project 11-4, Part 1: Log Cabin Lighting Legend and Plan [INTERMEDIATE]
- Project 11-4, Part 2: Log Cabin Power/Communication Legend and Plan [INTERMEDIATE]
- Project 11-5: House 1 Power/ Communication/ Lighting Plan [ADVANCED]
- Project 11-6: House 2 Power/Communication/Lighting Plan [ADVANCED]
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Chapter 12. Creating Presentations with Layouts and Making a Sheet Set
- Use Create Layout Wizard to Set Up Four Viewports on a Single Sheet
- Complete the Title Block
- Use Layer Properties Manager to Freeze Viewport Layers
- Scale and Center the Plans
- Use MVSETUP to Align the Plans
- Complete the Presentation
- Make New Layout Tabs and Rename the New Layout Tabs
- Prepare the Layout Tabs for Plotting Drawings
- Use MVSETUP to Insert a Title Block
- Quick View Tools
- New Sheet Set and Sheet Set Manager
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Test Questions
- Chapter Projects
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Chapter 13. Isometric Drawing and Gradient Hatch Rendering
- Axonometric Drawing
- Isometric Drawing
- Drafting Settings Dialog Box
- Shape 1: Drawing the Isometric Rectangle
- Shape 2: Drawing Isometric Ellipses
- Shape 3: Drawing a Chair with Ellipses That Show the Thickness of a Material
- Shape 4: Drawing a Shape That Has a Series of Isometric Ellipses Located on the Same Centerline
- Shape 5: Isometric Detail with Rounded Corners
- Shape 6: A TV Shape with an Angled Back
- Shape 7: Isometric Detail: A Hexagonal-Shaped Vase
- Dimensioning in Isometric
- Gradient Hatch
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Test Questions
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Chapter Projects
- Project 13-1: Using Gradient Patterns to Render the Reception Desk of Exercise 13-2 [BASIC]
- Project 13-2: Tenant Space Reception Seating Area Isometric [INTERMEDIATE]
- Project 13-3: Tenant Space Conference Chair in Isometric [ADVANCED]
- Project 13-4: Log Cabin Kitchen Isometric Cutaway Drawing [ADVANCED]
- Project 13-5: Family Room, House 1 Cutaway [ADVANCED]
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Chapter 2. Quick-Start Tutorials: Basic Settings and Commands
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Part Three: Three-Dimensional AutoCAD
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Chapter 14. Solid Modeling
- Introduction
- Solids Commands Used to Create Basic Shapes
- Solids Commands Used to Create Composite Solids
- Solids Commands Used to Edit Solids
- SOLIDEDIT
- Controlling UCS in Three Dimensions
- Commands for Viewing Solids
- SteeringWheels
- ViewCube
- Other Commands That Can Be Used to Edit Solids
- Settings That Control How the Solid Is Displayed
- Box
- Sphere
- Wedge
- Cone
- Cylinder
- Torus
- Draw an Extruded Circle
- Draw an Extruded Polygon
- Draw an Extruded Rectangle
- Draw an Extruded Structural Angle
- Draw an Extruded Shape
- Draw Revolved Shape 1
- Draw a Revolved Rectangle
- Draw a Revolved Paper Clip Holder
- ROTATE3D
- Chamfer and Fillet the Top Four Edges of Two Separate Boxes
- Chamfer and Fillet on the Top Edge of Two Separate Cylinders
- Draw Solid Shape 1
- Draw Solid Shape 2
- Union
- Subtract
- Hide
- Sweep
- Loft
- Planar Surface
- POLYSOLID
- Draw Two Extruded Shapes at Right Angles to Each Other
- Intersect
- Wblock the Intersected Model
- Complete Exercise 14-1
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Test Questions
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Chapter Projects
- Project 14-1: Drawing Solid Models of Eight Objects [BASIC]
- Project 14-2: Drawing a Solid Model of a Lamp Table [INTERMEDIATE]
- Project 14-3: Drawing a Solid Model of the Tenant Space Reception Seating [BASIC]
- Project 14-4: Drawing a Solid Model of a Lamp and Inserting It into the Lamp Table Drawing [ADVANCED]
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Chapter 15. Advanced Modeling
- Introduction
- RENDER
- Lights
- Materials
- Other Commands Available to Render, Animate, Attach Scanned Files, and Shade 3D Models
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter Test Questions
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Chapter Projects
- Project 15-1: Make a Solid Model of the Picnic Table Shown in the Sketch. Use Render Commands to Make a Photo-Realistic Rendering of the Solid Model [BASIC]
- Project 15-2: Make a Solid Model of the Chair Shown in the Sketch. Use Render Commands to Make a Photo-Realistic Rendering of the Solid Model [INTERMEDIATE]
- Project 15-3: Make a Solid Model of the Table Shown in the Sketch. Use Render Commands to Make a Photo-Realistic Rendering of the Solid Model [ADVANCED]
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Chapter 14. Solid Modeling
- Appendix A. Keyboard Shortcuts
- Appendix B. Shortcut and Temporary Override Keys
- Appendix C. Floor Plans and Interior Elevations of a 15-Unit Condominium Building
- Glossary
- Index
Product information
- Title: AutoCAD® 2015 for Interior Design and Space Planning
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2014
- Publisher(s): Peachpit Press
- ISBN: 9780134271033
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