Introduction to Architectural Drawing in AutoCAD
Drawing Tools
A course by Isabel Martínez , Architect
About the video: Drawing Tools
Overview
“We will see how to undo and redo steps, how to create lines, polylines and geometric figures through buttons and commands, as well as how to draw manually and numerically.”
In this video lesson Isabel Martínez addresses the topic: Drawing Tools, 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 DRAWING TOOLS We will learn how to work with the first drawing tools. The most basic commands we need to draw geometric shapes, both manually and numerically. Let's see how it is done. We already know how to draw a line, typing L, Enter. Clicking to specify a point, clicking to specify another point and ending with Enter. What if we now want to draw a polyline? Or we go on Mac to the icons on the left, or we go in Windows to the icons above, but what I want them to learn is to do it from the keyboard, that again, I comment, that it is the most effective way and faster to draw in Auto...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Architectural Drawing in AutoCAD
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Category
Architecture & Spaces, Design -
Software
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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