Introduction to Architectural Drawing in AutoCAD
The Drawing Units
A course by Isabel Martínez , Architect
About the video: The Drawing Units
Overview
“We will review the options of units and how to configure them, the decimal system, how to draw in meters and adjust the precision. You will learn to see the measurement information in the model space.”
In this video lesson Isabel Martínez addresses the topic: The Drawing Units, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Architectural Drawing in AutoCAD. Learn the basic tools to draw your architecture projects with precision.
Partial transcription of the video
“UNIT 2 THE DRAWING UNITS Now we will start working with the drawing units. We will learn to configure them in the decimal system, which we will work on from here on. Let's see how all this is done. We will learn how to open the units box. To do this, both on Windows and Mac, we write "Units" or if we are in Spanish AutoCAD, we write "Units" and press Enter. In my case it would be Units, in English, Enter. There we have opened that box of Drawing Units or Drawing Units. What do we see here? We are in the Decimal system. If we selected Architectural, we would change to inches and feet, but we...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Architectural Drawing in AutoCAD
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Category
Architecture & Spaces, Design -
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AutoCAD -
Areas
Architectural Illustration, Architecture, ArchVIZ, Interior Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture
Isabel Martínez
A course by Isabel Martínez
Isabel Martínez Abascal is an architect from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain. She also studied at the Technische Universität in Berlin, Germany, and at the Vastu Shilpa Foundation in Ahmedabad, India.
Throughout her career, she's collaborated with the SANAA studios in Tokyo, Japan, Aranguren y Gallegos in Madrid, Spain, Anupama Kundoo in Berlin, Germany, and Pedro Mendes da Rocha in São Paulo, Brazil. She has been a professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Escola da Cidade, in São Paulo, Brazil for many years.
She participated as a teacher in the XXIV International Workshop of Cartagena, the Ibero-American Biennial of Medellin 2010, the International Seminar of Curitiba 2012, and the California College of Arts 2012 Rio Olympics Workshop. In addition, she helped curate the 2013 X São Paulo Architecture Biennial and curated the 2014 13th exhibition for the inaugural cycle of the La Conservera Museum, Murcia as well as the 2015 exhibition Visionary Instruments by the artist Almudena Lobera for the ECCO Museum, Cádiz. From July 2015 to August 2017 she directed the LIGA platform, a space for DF architecture, dedicated to the exhibition, dissemination, and discussion of Latin American architecture.
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