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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Hand Drawing and Digital Drawing | |
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| Digital Drawing Tools | |
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| Traditional Drawing Tools | |
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| Menu Bar/Command Prompt | |
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| Button Bar/Tool Palettes | |
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| Pan | |
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| Zoom | |
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| Additional Resources | |
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| Drawing Lines and Shapes | |
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| Drawing Straight Lines | |
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| Erasing Lines | |
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| Horizontal and Vertical Lines | |
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| Line Length | |
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| Circles | |
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| Rectangles and Polygons | |
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| Arcs | |
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| Ellipses | |
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| Object Snaps | |
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| Running Object Snaps | |
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| Drawing Precision/Units | |
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| Undo | |
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| Learning Exercise | |
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| Modifying Lines and Shapes | |
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| Moving Lines | |
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| Copying Lines | |
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| Rotating Lines | |
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| Mirror(Reflect) Lines | |
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| Stretching Lines | |
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| Learning Exercise | |
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| Drawing with Accuracy and Speed | |
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| Drawing Polylines/Grips | |
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| Editing Polylines | |
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| Trimming Lines | |
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| Extending Lines | |
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| Offsetting Lines | |
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| Fillet | |
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| Rectangular Array | |
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| Polar Array | |
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| Break/Explode | |
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| Learning Exercise | |
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| Design Drawings | |
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| Organizing Plans, Sections, and Elevations | |
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| Line Weight | |
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| Selecting Colors | |
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| Drawing with Layers | |
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| Drawing Floor Plans | |
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| Drawing Scale and Detail | |
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| Drawing Sections | |
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| Drawing Elevations | |
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| Drawing Exterior Elevations | |
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| Drawing Interior Elevations | |
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| Learning Exercise | |
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| Drawing and Printing to Scale | |
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| Paper Layout | |
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| Plot Styles | |
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| CTB File Versus STB File | |
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| Adding a Plot Style | |
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| Selecting a Paper Size | |
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| Creating a Layout | |
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| Creating a Layout/11" x 17" ANSI B | |
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| Page Setup Manager/ANSI B | |
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| Creating a Layout/18" x 24" ARCH C | |
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| Page Setup Manager/ARCH C | |
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| Creating a Layout/24" x 36" ARCH D | |
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| Page Setup Manager/ARCH D | |
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| Creating a Viewport | |
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| Scaling a Viewport | |
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| Locking a Viewport | |
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| Plotting a Layout/Drawing | |
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| Learning Exercise | |
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| Text Styles and Sizes | |
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| Text Height | |
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| Text Styles/Fonts | |
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| Adding Text Styles/Adding Text | |
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| Adding Multiline Text | |
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| Editing Text | |
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| Learning Exercise | |
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| Hatches and Dashed Lines | |
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| Boundary Hatch | |
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| Hatch Patterns - Sections/Details | |
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| Hatch Patterns - Elevation/Plan | |
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| Line Types/Dashed Lines | |
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| Adding Line Types/LT Scale | |
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| Learning Exercise | |
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| Advanced Drawing Tools | |
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| Stencils and Blocks | |
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| Stencils/Blocks | |
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| Creating a Block | |
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| Inserting Blocks | |
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| Exploding Blocks/Exporting Blocks | |
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| Editing Blocks | |
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| Learning Exercise | |
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| Advanced Editing Tools | |
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| Properties Palette | |
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| Match Properties/Distance | |
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| Scale/Scale Reference | |
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| Audit/Purge | |
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| Express Tools/Flatten | |
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| Overkill/Layers Off and On | |
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| Layer Isolate/Layer Freeze | |
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| Layers Lock and Unlock/Layer Delete | |
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| Layer Merge | |
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| Learning Exercise | |
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| Dimensioning Your Drawing | |
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| Dimension Styles | |
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| Dimensioning Walls and Corridors | |
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| Dimensioning Windows and Doors | |
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| Dimensioning to Structure | |
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| Adding Linear Dimensions | |
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| Adding Aligned Dimensions | |
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| Adding Angular Dimensions | |
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| Dimension Style: Tick | |
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| Dimension Style: Arrow | |
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| Dimension Style: Box | |
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| Dimension Style: Dot | |
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| Learning Exercise | |
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| Text Leaders | |
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| Text Leaders | |
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| Adding Text Leaders | |
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| Leader Style: Arrow | |
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| Leader Style: Dot | |
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| Learning Exercises | |
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| Drawing Symbols and Attributed Text | |
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| Drawing Symbols | |
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| Creating Attributed Blocks | |
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| Inserting Attributed Blocks | |
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| Editing Attributed Blocks | |
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| Drawing Name Symbol | |
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| Detail Symbol | |
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| Section Arrow/Elevation Arrow | |
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| Grid Symbol | |
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| Interior Elevation Symbol | |
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| Learning Exercise | |
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| Linking Drawings/External References | |
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| Drawing with Overlays | |
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| Drawing with XREFs | |
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| XREF Manager | |
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| Adding XREFs to Your Drawing | |
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| Plan XREFs/Individual Designers | |
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| Plan XREFs/Multiple Designers | |
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| Elevation XREFs/Individual Designers | |
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| Elevation XREFs/Multiple Designers | |
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| Learning Exercise | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Index | |
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| Quick Reference Guide | |