Microcomputer-aided Design for Architects and Designers

The book explains how designers can increase their productivity by the use of computer-aided-design (CAD) facilities with microcomputers, as an alternative to traditional drafting techniques. It provides a structured overview of CAD applications to line drawings, tracing, sketching and scaling.

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The author of this book shows how any designer can increase his or her repertoire of design tools by using CAD as an alternative to traditional drafting and design. He describes the latest applications of computer-aided-design (CAD) using microcomputers - and even shows how to customize professional CAD programs. The book introduces architectural programming, symbolic programming with LISP, and employs versatile, attractive graphics. It also provides a structured overview of CAD applications to line drawings, tracing, sketching, and scaling; generation of plans, sections, elevations, axonometrics, and perspectives; and manipulation of designs by means of transformations, repetition, and extrusions. Graphic and programming examples of the machine's and programs' capabilities are included.