Q: I’m going to build a cupola on top of my garage. The roof isn’t too steep, so I think I can manage to do this safely. What is the best roof design to put on a cupola? I’ve seen hip roofs, as well ...

According to Arrette, "though most design work these days is being done on computers, the design process is a cycle: from the original idea, to paper, to computer, to paper, and back again many times.

Use the drawing tools under the "Insert" menu in Microsoft Excel to draw an image to scale by tracing that image. One advantage of using Excel's drawing tools for this project, rather than a graphics ...

For years, leaders of architectural firms have bemoaned the lack of hand drawing skills among recent graduates and young professionals entering the practice. With a tendency to bypass hand drawing and ...

Written by James Taylor-Foster Published on February 13, 2015 "The Line and Circle Edges both have improved control so that you can draw with precise offsets or radii. With the Line Edge, dragging by ...

It is not always possible to draw objects, such as a building, using the real-life measurements, as they are too big or in other cases, too small. Instead, a scale drawing is used to recreate ...