Drawing Your First Set of Plans in AutoCAD
In this set of tutorials, you'll learn how to draw your very first set of architectural plans. Software required: AutoCAD 2014.
What you'll learn
In this set of tutorials, you'll learn how to draw your very first set of architectural plans. We'll get started by working on a floor plan of a residential project.We'll begin with the exterior and interior walls in our plan. We'll learn a few tools and tips that will help us quickly and efficiently draw walls that will define each space throughout the plan. Next we'll learn how to quickly draw the doors and windows that will populate our floor plan.Once the floor plan is complete, we'll then focus our attention on how to create elevation drawings of the home we're designing and we'll also learn some tips on how to add depth to your drawings. Software required: AutoCAD 2014.
Table of contents
- Drawing the Exterior Walls of the Floor Plan 7m
- Drawing the Interior Walls of the Floor Plan 5m
- Completing the Interior Walls 5m
- Drawing Doors 6m
- Finishing the Door Placement 8m
- Drawing Wall Openings for Windows and Entrances 7m
- Drawing Windows 6m
- Creating a Block for Windows 6m
- Adding Hatch Patterns, Text and Dimensions 8m
- Setting Layers and Lineweights for Elevations 5m
- Drawing the Basic Form of the Elevation 6m
- Cleaning Lines and Refining Elevations 3m
- Assigning Lineweights to the Elevation Drawing 4m
- Drawing Doors in Elevation View 7m
- Completing the Door 8m
- Adding Hatch Patterns to Elevations 6m
About the author
Pierre is a Pluralsight training pioneer. Since becoming the first CAD and BIM author at Digital-Tutors (now a Pluralsight company), Pierre has played a major role in building the training library. With a productive background in the CAD industry, working as everything from a drafter to project manager, Pierre has long had a passion for the creativity and hard work that goes into designing architectural projects. Pierre is proud to be able to share his mastery of Revit and AutoCAD with the P... more