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AutoCAD for Interior Design and Space Planning
Author(s): Beverly Kirkpatrick BFA NCIDQ Adjunct Faculty (Author), James Kirkpatrick (Author), Hossein Assadipour (Author)
- Publisher: Pearson
- Publication Date: 4 Nov. 2021
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 672 pages
- ISBN-10: 0136787886
- ISBN-13: 9780136787884
Book Description
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
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About the Author
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 field.
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.
