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EXERCISE 3-2 Drawing a Rectangular Lecture Room, Including Furniture

In Exercise 3-2, you draw a lecture room, including walls and furnishings. When you have completed Exercise 3-2, your drawing will look similar to Figure 3-24.

Figure 3-24

Figure 3-24 Exercise 3-2: Drawing a rectangular lecture room, including furniture (scale: 1/4″ = 1′-0″)

  • Step 1. Click Open…, change the Files of type: input box to Drawing Template (*.dwt), and open template Ch3-conference-rm-setup, which you previously made at the beginning of Exercise 3-1.

  • Step 2. Click Save As…, change the Files of type: input box to AutoCAD 2018 Drawing (.dwg), and save the template as a drawing file named CH3-EXERCISE2.

  • Step 3. Verify the following settings:

    1. Drawing units: Architectural

    2. Drawing limits: 25′,35′

    3. GRIDDISPLAY: 0

    4. Grid: 12″

    5. Snap: 6″

    6. Verify the following layers:

    Layer name

    Color

    Linetype

    Lineweight

    a-anno-text

    green

    continuous

    .006″ (.15 mm)

    a-door

    red

    continuous

    .004″ (.09 mm)

    a-wall-intr

    blue

    continuous

    .010″ (.25 mm)

    i-eqpm-ovhd

    red

    hidden

    .004″ (.09 mm)

  • Step 4. Set layer a-wall-intr current.

  • Step 5. Use Zoom-All to view the limits of the drawing.

  • Step 6. Turn SNAP, GRID, and LWDISPLAY on. The remaining buttons in the status bar should be off.

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