Chapter 6: Enhancing Your Drawing Skills

Chapter 6 : Enhancing Your Drawing Skills

Overview

Now that you have created drawings of a typical apartment unit, and the apartment building's lobby and stairs, you can assemble them to complete the first floor of the apartment building. In this chapter, you will take full advantage of AutoCAD's features to enhance your drawing skills, as well as to reduce the time it takes for you to create accurate drawings.

As your drawing becomes larger, you will find that you need to use the Zoom and Pan commands more often. Larger drawings also require some special editing techniques. You will learn how to assemble and view drawings in ways that will save you time and effort as your design progresses. Along the way, you'll see how you can enhance the appearance of your drawings by adding hatch patterns.

Assembling the Parts

Start by creating a new file for the first floor.


	1.	Create a new file named Plan to contain the drawing of the apartment building's first floor. This is the file that you will use to assemble the unit plans into an apartment building.


	Tip	If you're just opening AutoCAD, you can click the Open a Drawing button in the Start Up wizard, and then double-click the Browse Files button from the Select a File list.


	2.	Set the Units style to Architectural (Format Units).


	3.	Set up the drawing for a 1/8"=1'-0" scale on a 24" x 18" drawing area (Format

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