Overview
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Take your drawings from 2D to 3D with AutoCAD. Learn how to model a building, complete with doors, windows, staircases, roofs, and surrounding terrain.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Explore 3D architectural modeling in AutoCAD
- What you should know
- Bring the project data together
- Arrange elevations around the plan
- Arrange sections adjacent to elevations
- Delete layers, clean up, and purge
- Set up property filters for 2D and 3D layers
- Create closed polylines with boundaries
- Navigate in 3D
- Rotate objects in 3D
- Realign elevations and sections in 3D
- Extrude closed polyline walls
- Build sills and headers
- Extrude interior partitions
- Extrude, presspull, and union headers
- Model curved headers
- Move the ceiling using a point filter
- Build the slab on grade
- Model doors with glazing
- Copy doors around the model
- Sketch window detail in place
- Model a window
- Copy window groups
- Join and extrude stair profiles
- Subobject manipulation
- Model stairs from plans
- Thicken stair object with Booleans
- Build a handrail that follows a 3D path
- Support the handrail
- Shape a courtyard as a NURBS surface
- Sculpt a sloping terrain
- Trim a surface with other surfaces
- Slice topographic contour lines
- Loft a surface between contours
- Copy the ceiling to create a new floor
- Extrude a walkway
- Extrude the second floor walls
- Fill in voids in slabs and walls
- Remove unwanted volume from walls
- Sketch roof plans in wireframe
- Duplicate a wireframe for later reuse
- Create door headers
- Perform a Boolean subtraction
- Build interior partitions
- Cut window openings
- Create custom windows
- Cut standard openings in courtyard walls
- Cut small openings in courtyard walls
- Copy windows around the second floor
- Build roof surfaces
- Subtract the tower volume from the roof
- Sculpt solids from regions and surfaces
- Build the tower walls
- Cut the wraparound walls down
- Construct the first wraparound roof
- Fill in walls under the roof
- Make a wraparound roof with 3D poly objects
- Fill in missing wall volume
- Extend walls to meet the roof
- Cut notches for clerestory windows
- Build clerestory windows
- Model the tower walls
- Shell the tower
- Extrude the roof along a path
- Next steps
