Throughout the rest of the book you will design a residence through to its completion. The first three chapters are intended to get you familiar with the user interface and the most common menus and tools.

This book starts with a basic introduction to AutoCAD 2020. After completing this book you will have a well-rounded knowledge of Computer Aided Drafting that can be used in the industry and the satisfaction of having completed a set of residential drawings. Each book comes with embedded video instruction in which the author explains the most common tools and techniques used when designing residential buildings using AutoCAD 2020.

Residential Design Using AutoCAD 2020 is an introductory level tutorial which uses residential design exercises as the means to teach you AutoCAD 2020.

Bonus material covers must know commands, sketching exercises, a roof study workbook and more.

Includes extensive embedded video instruction.

Project based tutorials design a house from start to finish using AutoCAD 2020.

Was about time they got around changing it, I think (maybe they already had in the previous WIn versions though?). All the files she's tried has worked but it's nothing particularly complicated, mostly 2D plan views of stuff. Most of the menus seems the same though and it's similar enough to be quite usable from the start. She previously used AutoCAD 2008 for Windows, which looks quite different so there were (or are, even) some time for adjustment. Even so, I guess it depends on where you're coming from. She hasn't been using it too much yet (in fact, I think I've been using it as much when trying to troubleshoot the jerky mouse issues). How does you GF like AutoCAD on the Mac? Does it work well? Files fully compatible? We use ACAD and Revit at work, I wouldn't mind getting AutoCAD for my MBP to run at home/on the road. The graphics chip in the Air should be more than enough, after all, this is only for relatively simple 2D-drawing, and AutoCAD supports lesser graphics chipsets.Īnyone else using AutoCAD on Mac OS X that has experienced similar issues, and has resolved them some how?

Now, this is a MacBook Air 13' so I initially thought that the somewhat weak CPU could be the cause but it turns out it's not CPU limited at all AutoCAD uses 10% CPU, tops, and there's plenty of spare CPU cycles (like 70-80%, at least). It reminds me a little of how resizing a window was in the early days of OS X. It's like it's snapping randomly to non existent objects, or just plain jumpy (both with the track pad and an external mouse).

to select objects with a selection rectangle) or when drawing stuff, like lines, splines, polylines etc. As it is now, the cursor is really jerky whenever a mouse button is pressed (e.g. My GF recently got AutoCAD 2011 on her new Mac, and while it performs admirably in all other aspects, using AutoCAD 2011 could be smoother.

Using autocad on a mac