Architectural Construction Drawings with AutoCAD? R14

By James Snyder

Book Overview

Master the latest versions of AutoCAD(r) and AutoCAD(r) LT -- quickly and easily This powerful book/disk set gets AutoCAD novices up and running with the knowledge and skills they need to create polished architectural construction drawings using AutoCAD R14 and AutoCAD LT 95. Instead of just explaining how the software works, it guides you step-by-step through a series of progressively difficult exercises that let you learn by producing actual design elements. For experienced users, the package offers a fast, easy way to become comfortable with working in the Windows(r) 95 environment, as well as a valuable guide to benchmarking drawing conventions, and a quick-command reference to specific components. Organized by building components--the way architects actually work--Architectural Construction Drawings with AutoCAD(r) R14 features: p9e Step-by-step explanations of each component type The best commands and drawing techniques for each task Exercises that let you learn by creating actual building elements Hundreds of blow-by-blow screen shots Guidelines on how to create polished drawings for clients and consultants at every phase of design development A disk library including all of the components covered in the book

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471184187
• ISBN13: 9780471184188
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 0.8" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Great Introduction to using Autocad

This is a great book. I am an engineer who has since gone into another profession in which clear and concise writing plays an important role. My drafting experience is from pre-CAD days and included 8 years of intermittent drafting to implement my own work. I have a current need to create architectural drawings for a large personal project for use by an architectural firm and have retained and purchased Autocad so that we could "speak the same language". I looked at a number of books to help educate me in this new field and purchased some of them. A number of these books deal with the nuts and bolts of the Autocad language, which I am now comfortable with. None of these books, however, have provided a usable and straightforward framework to help me implement the powers of Autocad to create architectural drawings. James Snyder's book does this, and it is by far the best I have used or looked at for this purpose. It is clearly written, the examples are helpful and goal oriented, and as a whole his book communicates the necessary elements of architectural drafting in an enlightening manner.