Download or read book AutoCAD 2019 for Architectural Design: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users written by John Willis and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-09-09 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AutoCAD 2019 for Architectural Design: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users textbook is designed for instructor-led courses as well as for self-paced learning. It is intended to help architects, designers, and CAD operators interested in learning AutoCAD for creating architectural 2D drawings. This textbook is a great help for new AutoCAD users and a great teaching aid in a classroom setting. This textbook consists of 12 chapters, total 488 pages covering tools and commands of the Drafting & Annotation workspace of AutoCAD. This textbook teaches you how to use AutoCAD software to create, edit, plot, and manage real world architectural 2D drawings. This textbook not only focuses on the usage of the tools/commands of AutoCAD but also on the concept of design. Every chapter of this book contains tutorials that instruct users step-by-step how to create architectural drawings with ease. Moreover, every chapter ends with hands-on test drives that allow the users of this textbook to experience themselves the ease-of-use and powerful capabilities of AutoCAD. Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction to AutoCAD Chapter 2. Creating Drawings - I Chapter 3. Working with Drawing Aids and Layers Chapter 4. Creating Drawings - II Chapter 5. Modifying and Editing Drawings - I Chapter 6. Working with Blocks and Xrefs Chapter 7. Working with Dimensions and Dimensions Style Chapter 8. Editing Dimensions and Adding Text Chapter 9. Modifying and Editing Drawings - II Chapter 10. Hatching and Gradients Chapter 11. Working with Layouts Chapter 12. Printing and Plotting