Perfect for both beginning and intermediate students, Architectural Drafting Using AutoCAD provides thorough coverage of architectural drafting using AutoCAD. This text begins by presenting basic AutoCAD commands, to give beginning users a strong introduction to the software and provide experienced AutoCAD users with a review. The text then focuses on using AutoCAD to prepare architectural drawings using common architectural drafting conventions.

• Format similar to AutoCAD and Its Applications series.
• Text includes Professional Tips to help students increase productivity in using AutoCAD commands and techniques.
• Chapter problems and building projects motivate students to apply concepts and skills.
• Building projects relate the concepts of each chapter to practical applications. These comprehensive projects progress and build on one another, helping students achieve a thorough understanding of the process of creating an entire set of construction documents.
• Text provides in-depth coverage of construction practices and related architectural drafting conventions.
• Extensive coverage includes chapters on preliminary design, site plans, floor plans, schedules, foundation plans, elevations, sections, framing plans, and mechanical plans.
• Student Companion Web Site includes Chapter Exercises, Chapter Tests, supplemental material from chapters in the text, Internet resources, and a variety of useful reference documents and tables.
• Instructor's CD features additional residential and commercial building projects for further student practice.