Overview
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Learn the tools and techniques used by professional architects to build amazing structures with AutoCAD Architecture.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Establishing a measuring system of units
- Comparing AutoCAD to AutoCAD Architecture
- Using the application menu, ribbon, and Quick Access toolbar
- Understanding the command line
- Understanding context ribbons
- Using the palettes
- Working with the tool palettes
- Understanding view navigation
- Understanding selection and modifying basics
- Understanding drafting settings
- Adding walls
- Using the Modify tools with walls
- Offsetting walls
- Adding doors and windows
- Setting wall properties and styles
- Understanding wall cleanup
- Cleaning up walls in a drawing
- Setting door and window styles
- Working with columns
- Adding stairs
- Adding railings
- Refining plans with other objects
- Understanding layer keys
- Understanding the architectural display
- Working with direction-dependent displays
- Working with fixed-view displays
- Creating custom display configurations
- Customizing display components
- Understanding projects
- Creating and setting up a project
- Adding constructs
- Modifying constructs
- Adding roofs
- Adding view files
- Using callouts to add elevations
- Using callouts to add sections
- Adding sheets
- Adding elements
- Updating project files
- Understanding XREFs
- Updating sheets and callouts
- Managing projects
- Using spaces
- Working with property sets
- Adding room tags
- Adding door tags
- Adding schedules
- Modifying schedules
- Exporting and printing schedules
- Creating a site plan
- Converting polylines to slabs
- Refining elevations and sections
- Adding material boundaries
- Refining a floor plan
- Creating ceiling plans
- Creating a detail callout
- Placing detail components
- Preparing for output
- Printing a project
- Exporting to DWF or PDF
- Exporting project files
- Sharing with Revit
- Goodbye
