Get Productive Fast with AutoCAD 2022: Master the Newest AutoCAD Features and Interface

In this guide, expert AutoCAD instructors and practitioners show how to efficiently use AutoCAD 2022's powerful features in any interior design, architecture, or space planning project. Covering both 2D and 3D drawings, the authors walk you step-by-step through using AutoCAD 2022 prompts and commands, and fully mastering AutoCAD's current interface, including the revised Start tab and floating Drawing tabs.

AutoCAD 2022 for Interior Design and Space Planning has been thoroughly updated to reflect changes since AutoCAD 2015, from importing content with DesignCenter to creating solid modeling walkthroughs with 3DWALK and Animation Motion. It's packed with features for better classroom and self-paced learning:

• 600+ updated illustrations and 100+ exercises demonstrating AutoCAD's role in modern interior design, architecture, and space planning
• Moves from basic commands to complex drawings, helping learners build on what they've learned and quickly get productive
• Numbered step-by-step exercises help students learn in realistic situations, and then practice on their own
• Includes drawing layouts, plotting drawings, and using architectural scales to measure distances
• Several projects guide learners to create a tenant space, a hotel room, lecture and conference rooms, and a wheelchair-accessible commercial restroom appropriate for interior design, space planning, and architecture students

BEVERLY KIRKPATRICK has worked with AutoCAD for 30+ years, developing interior designs, space plans, and finish schedules for schools, banks, hospitals, churches, and car dealerships. She taught AutoCAD at college and high school levels.

JAMES KIRKPATRICK worked with and taught AutoCAD for 40+ years, established Eastfield College's AutoCAD Training Center, and authored 30+ books in the fi eld.

HOSSEIN ASSADIPOUR teaches CAD, CNC, CAM, and related topics, and wrote Learning AutoCAD in 20 Projects. He is professor of Division of Mathematics, Engineering Technologies & Computer Sciences at Essex County College.

DAVID BYRNES spent 38 years in design, drafting, and 3D modeling, working with AutoCAD since v. 1.4. A CAD consultant, instructor, and author since 1988, he contributed to Cadalyst magazine for 15 years, and taught 2D/3D design software at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, British Columbia Institute of Technology, and the University of British Columbia.

PART I: PREPARING TO DRAW WITH AUTOCAD

Chapter 1 Introducing the AutoCAD User Interface 1

Chapter Objectives 1

Introduction 1

Exercise 1-1 Examine the AutoCAD User Interface and Save a Workspace 2

Drawing Window and Graphics Cursor 4

Application Menu Button 7

Inputting or Selecting a Command 8

Ribbon 8

Expanded Panels 9

Dialog Boxes and Palettes 9

Tooltips 10

Flyouts 10

Command Line Window (+9) 11

Quick Access Toolbar 11

Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar Down Arrow and Showing the Menu Bar 12

Using AutoCAD Toolbars 13

User Coordinate System Icon 14

Advantage of Using the UCS 14

Viewport Label Menus 14

ViewCube 16

Navigation Bar 17

Infocenter 18

Status Bar 18

Drawing Coordinates Values (+I) 18

Model or Paper Space 21

Quick View Tools 21

Annotation Scaling Tools 21

Workspace Switching 22

Lock/Unlock Toolbar and Window Positions 22

On/Off Hardware Acceleration 22

Clean Screen (+0 [Zero]) 22

Modifying and Saving a Workspace 22

Getting Help in AutoCAD 2022 24

Closing AutoCAD 25

Chapter Summary 26

Chapter Test Questions 26

PART II: TWO-DIMENSIONAL AUTOCAD

Chapter 2 Quick-Start Tutorials: Basic Settings and Commands 29

Chapter Objectives 29

Introduction 29

Following the Tutorials in This Book 30

Tutorial 2-1 Part 1, Beginning an AutoCAD Drawing: Saving Your Work; Setting Units, Limits, Grid, and Snap; Creating Layers 31

Beginning an AutoCAD Drawing 31

Saving the Drawing 32

Save 32

Save As 32

DWT 34

DWS 34

DXF 34

Drawing Name and File Name Extension 35

Units 36

Controlling Your Drawing 36

Drawing Scale 37

Drawing Limits and the Cartesian Coordinate System 37

Grid 38

GRIDDISPLAY 38

Snap 40

Zoom 41

Drafting Settings Dialog Box 41

Layers 42

Layer Lists 44

Linetypes 46

Lineweights 46

Lineweight Settings Dialog Box 46

Lineweight Display 48

Setting the Annotation Scale 50

Saving the Drawing 50

Using the Mouse and Right-Click Customization 51

Tutorial 2-1 Part 2, Drawing Lines, Circles, Arcs, Ellipses, and Donuts 52

Ortho 52

Drawing Lines Using the Grid Marks and Snap Increments 53

Erase and Undo 54

Drawing Lines Using Absolute Coordinates 56

Drawing Lines Using Relative Coordinates 57

Drawing Lines Using Polar Coordinates 58

Drawing Lines Using Direct Distance Entry 59

DYNMODE 59

Circle 60

Center, Radius 61

Center, Diameter 62

2 Points 62

3 Points 63

TTR 63

LTSCALE 63

ZOOM 64

Zoom-Window 64

Zoom-All 65

Zoom-Previous 65

Zoom-Extents 66

Zoom-Object 66

Zoom-Realtime 66

PAN REALTIME 66

Transparent Commands 66

REDRAW 67

REGEN 67

HIGHLIGHT 67

Move and Editing Commands Selection Set 67

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