Drawing with AutoCAD: Conference and Lecture Rooms

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AutoCAD 2022 for Interior Design and Space Planning

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This chapter is from the book

This chapter is from the book 

AutoCAD 2022 for Interior Design and Space Planning

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EXERCISE 3-1 Drawing a Rectangular Conference Room, Including Furniture

In Exercise 3-1, you learn to draw a conference room, including walls and furnishings. When you have completed Exercise 3-1, your drawing will look similar to Figure 3-1.

Figure 3-1 Exercise 3-1: Drawing a rectangular conference room, including furniture (scale: 1/4″ = 1′-0″)

• Step 1. Use your workspace to make the following settings:

  1. Use Save As… to save the drawing with the name CH3 EXERCISE1

  2. Set drawing units: Architectural

  3. Set drawing limits: 25′,35′ (Don’t forget the foot marks.)

  4. Set GRIDDISPLAY: 0

  5. Set grid: 12″

  6. Set snap: 6″

  7. Create the following layers:

     Layer name	Color	Linetype	Lineweight
     a-anno-text	green	continuous	.006[dp] (.15 mm)
     a-door	red	continuous	.004[dp] (.09 mm)
     a-wall-intr	blue	continuous	.010[dp] (.25 mm)
     i-eqpm-ovhd	red	hidden	.004[dp] (.09 mm)
     i-furn	cyan	continuous	.004[dp] (.09 mm)

     Tip

     You can create the layers by clicking the New layer icon and then typing the layer names separated by a comma. When you type the comma, the Name list moves to the next layer, and you can type the next layer name.

  8. Set layer a-wall-intr current.

  9. Use Zoom-All to view the limits of the drawing.

  10. Turn SNAP, GRID, and LWDISPLAY on. The remaining buttons in the status bar are off.