6AutoCAD 2020 for Architectural Design: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users textbook is designed for instructor-led courses as well as for self-paced learning. It is intended to help architects, designers, and CAD operators interested in learning AutoCAD for creating architectural 2D drawings. This textbook is a great help for new AutoCAD users and a great teaching aid in a classroom training. This textbook consists of 12 chapters, total 490 pages covering tools and commands of the Drafting & Annotation workspace of AutoCAD. The textbook teaches you to use AutoCAD software for creating, editing, plotting, and managing real world architectural 2D drawings.

This textbook not only focuses on the usage of the tools/commands of AutoCAD but also on the concept of design. Every chapter in this textbook contains tutorials that provide users with step-by-step instructions for creating architectural designs and drawings with ease. Moreover, every chapter ends with hands-on test drives which allow users to experience the user friendly and technical capabilities of AutoCAD.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction to AutoCAD
Chapter 2. Creating Drawings - I
Chapter 3. Working with Drawing Aids and Layers
Chapter 4. Creating Drawings - II
Chapter 5. Modifying and Editing Drawings - I
Chapter 6. Working with Blocks and Xrefs
Chapter 7. Working with Dimensions and Dimensions Style
Chapter 8. Editing Dimensions and Adding Text
Chapter 9. Modifying and Editing Drawings - II
Chapter 10. Hatching and Gradients
Chapter 11. Working with Layouts
Chapter 12. Printing and Plotting