Explore the intricacies of using AutoCAD for interior design, where the first project entails creating a drawing set for a residential remodel. Discover how to download and appropriately name a DWG file, understand the floor plan of an 1880 house, and learn how to implement the owner's desired changes.
Key Insights
- The AutoCAD for Interior Design course begins with a project that involves creating a drawing set for a residential remodel. This involves dealing with a DWG file that serves as the starting point.
- The DWG file represents the floor plan of an 1880s house. As an interior designer, initial steps may involve taking measurements, drawing the floor plan, or obtaining the floor plan from an existing source such as the owner.
- Students will learn how to implement changes specified by the owner. These may include enlarging the kitchen, adding a bathroom, or creating an owner's suite by modifying the existing bedrooms and bathrooms.
This lesson is a preview from our AutoCAD for Interior Design Course Online (includes software) and Interior Design Professional Course Online (includes software & exam). Enroll in a course for detailed lessons, live instructor support, and project-based training.
Welcome to AutoCAD for Interior Design. I'm so excited you're here. For our first project, we're going to create a drawing set for a residential remodel project.
Let's begin by downloading the file called AutoCAD for Interior Design Residential Start from our class. This is a DWG file meant for AutoCAD. Once you have it downloaded, go ahead and open it up in AutoCAD.
When that file opens up, let's go ahead and save it as a different file to give it a name. We're going to go to the top left menu, the file menu, and find Save As. Make sure we're saving it as a drawing.
We're going to go ahead and give it a name. The name we want to give this is ACADID. That's kind of short for AutoCAD for Interior Design.
Then we'll do an underscore and RES for residential. Then we'll put a dash. We'll put your first name and then last name.
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Click that Save button. You'll notice now up at the top that it's called ACADID RES First Last. That's the tab that we're working in.
What is this file we're looking at right now? It's a floor plan. It's a floor plan from an 1880s house. We can see the current conditions of this home.
As an interior designer, our first step might be to go to this house, take measurements, and draw this floor plan. Or we might be able to get this floor plan from the owner or another source. That's our beginning point.
The owner has communicated with us. They want to make a few changes. For example, on the first floor plan, they want to and enlarge the kitchen and add a bathroom on the first floor.
To accomplish that, they're going to give up the bedroom that's currently on the first floor. Up here is a second floor plan. For the second floor, they want to create an owner's suite.
They're going to do that with two bedrooms. They're going to take the center bedroom and enlarge it by removing these closets, turning the small bedroom in the corner into a large walk-in closet, and they're going to extend this bathroom.
