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RESIDENTIAL DESIGN USING AUTOCAD 2027 HANDBOOK - Softcover

Sterling, Thomas E

 
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Synopsis

RESIDENTIAL DESIGN USING AUTOCAD 2027
Designing a house in AutoCAD involves much more than drawing walls, doors, and windows. A residential project must move from an initial idea to accurate floor plans, coordinated elevations, sections, site information, construction details, schedules, and properly organized drawing sheets. **RESIDENTIAL DESIGN USING AUTOCAD 2027** provides a structured path for learning how these parts work together within a practical residential CAD workflow.
Instead of treating AutoCAD as a collection of separate commands, this book shows how the software can be used throughout the residential design and documentation process. Readers begin with project setup, architectural units, templates, layers, drawing standards, precision tools, editing methods, and reusable content. From there, the book moves into programming, space planning, site constraints, circulation, and the development of accurate residential floor plans.
The guidance continues through doors, windows, stairs, kitchens, bathrooms, dimensions, annotation, schedules, roof plans, reflected ceiling plans, foundations, framing coordination, exterior elevations, building sections, construction details, and residential site plans. Electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and code-related coordination are also introduced so readers can understand how building systems interact with architectural drawings.
What makes this book different is its emphasis on **drawing coordination and professional workflow**. A floor plan is not treated as an isolated drawing. Changes to walls, openings, roof geometry, levels, fixtures, or other building elements are considered in relation to elevations, sections, schedules, site information, and supporting drawings. This approach helps readers understand how a residential drawing set becomes one coordinated information system.
Readers will also explore the AutoCAD Architecture 2027 toolset and 3D residential modeling, including intelligent walls, doors, windows, slabs, roofs, model-based elevations, sections, and coordinated model views.

Additional features include:

  • Step-by-step residential CAD workflows
  • Practical worked examples and calculations
  • Instructional figures and technical tables
  • Floor-plan development and space-planning methods
  • Architectural annotation, hatching, symbols, and schedules
  • Roof, foundation, framing, elevation, section, and detail development
  • Site planning and building-system coordination
  • Layouts, viewports, xrefs, Sheet Set Manager, plotting, and publishing
  • File management, revision control, PDF quality checks, and troubleshooting
  • A final residential capstone project that brings the workflow together
  • Glossary, command reference, completion checklists, and index
Whether you are learning residential CAD, studying architectural drafting, moving from manual drafting to digital production, or improving an existing AutoCAD workflow, this book provides a practical framework for turning design decisions into organized, readable, and coordinated residential documentation.
Start building stronger residential CAD skills and develop your next project with a clear, step-by-step AutoCAD 2027 workflow.

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