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14 WEEK OUTLINE

Some details of this outline may change as a result of circumstances such as weather cancellations, College and student activities, and class timetabling.

 


CADD12384 - Architectural Drafting 2 - CAD Applications 
  

Week Outline of Topics Classroom Activities & Reading Assignment Tests/Exercises/Assignments
Applications CAD
1

Raster Images

Link to Web distrib

Site Plans, Property Lines

Design Drawing Floorplans

Customization: Linetypes

Review of Layering Standards

Review of Colour Standards

Exercise 1 (siteplan and floorplan)

Creating Linetypes

Drawing site plans with an arc in the property line.

Hand out Task 1

2

Photoshop User Interface

Link to Web distrib

Projection Techniques

Review of Grips

Scaling and Plotting

Exercise 2 (five elevations)

Exercise 1 - Week 2 second class: Submit TWO drawings - siteplan and floorplan.

3 Photoshop Editing and Painting

Symbol Libraries

Using Designcenter

Titleblocks

Dimension Styles

Exercise 4 (Design Drawing titleblock)

Plotting full size and reduced size (checkplots)

Exercise 5 (Design Drawing dimensioning)

Exercise 2 - Week 3 second class: Submit ONE drawing with the projected five elevations.

Hand out Task 2

4

Photoshop: Importing AutoCAD graphics

Photoshop: Saving as GIF, JPEG or BMP

Layout Tabs

Drawing Assembly Layouts

Importing Raster Images

Exercise 3 (In-class Photoshop Elevation)

Review Layout and Paperspace/Modelspace topics in the AutoCAD help file.

Exercise 8 (raster images in AutoCAD)

Task 1: (Second class) Submit CAD drawing file and hardcopy plot of floorplans with the design drawing titleblock

Hand out Task 3

Hand out Task 4

5 Photoshop Editing and Painting Working drawing conventions and techniques

Exercise 6 (Working Drawing Titleblock - inches)

MacLean Residence Files

Task 2: Submit CAD drawing file and hardcopy plot

Exercise 8: Submit compressed folder with files

6

Microsoft Word: Tables

Photoshop Editing and Painting 

Hatching, Text and Text styles

Preview: Midterm Exam

Exercise 7: Word exercise
Door and window schedule

Addendum to Task 4 - first class

Sample of Task 4

Task 3 - part 1: Submit drawing plot of Architectural Project for approval of elevation

7

Photoshop Editing and Painting 

 

 

 

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READING WEEK

8

Introduction to the Commercial Project - the Collins Warehouse

Assigning Teams - establishing a team identity

Copy and Paste - Linked vs. Embedded objects

Exercise 8 (raster images in AutoCAD)

Link to Web distrib

Creating a team logo

External References (images)

Midterm Exam (AutoCAD) (first class)

AutoCAD Help file: Xrefs, Xref paths, the Xref manager.

FIND A TEAM MATE! Create a Logo and come up with a company name.

9

Link to Web distrib

External References (CAD drawings)

Introduction to attributes (videos)

Attribute exercise - classroom inventory drawing

AutoCAD Help file: Xrefs, Xref paths, the Xref manager.

Task 4: (first class) Submit CAD drawing file and hardcopy plot

Task 3: (Second Class) Submit PSD file of painted elevation from studio class

Exercise 3 : (Second Class) Submit PSD file of painted given elevation

Exercise 8: (Second Class) Submit compressed folder with files

Hand out Task 5

10

Link to Web distrib

 

Collins warehouse - Building systems

Green Roofs

Exercise 9: Team Working drawing Titleblock (metric)

 

 

11 Microsoft Word - Tables and Text Boxes

Office Documentation

Word Exercise 10 - Transmittal form

Structural steel terms

Task 5: (Second Class) Submit CAD drawing file and hardcopy plots of floorplans, with Transmittal form

Hand out Task 7

12  

Drawing structural steel in commercial floorplans

Structural Steel Roofs

 

 
13 Microsoft Excel: Quantity Take-offs

Attribute Extraction

Schedules in AutoCAD

Collins Warehouse - demonstration of Exercise 12 - Structural Steel quantity take-off exercise

Please note: For the real exercise 12, each student will be supplied with a grid drawing and a steel roof plan drawing from another project.

Exercise 12 presentation (pdf)

Task 7: (Second class) :

- Both members: Submit your CAD files for Office and Warehouse roof steel.

- Member A: send your files for the Office to member B.

- Member B: Report to the Instructor is you do not get the files.

14   Extracted Data in Excel Please note: For the real exercise 12, each student will be supplied with a grid drawing and a steel roof plan drawing from another project.

Note: For classes P01, P02 and P03 (Ad1, AD2 and AD3) the deadline for Task 7 and exercise 12 is the start of the second class in week 14.

Task 7 (Floor Steel Assignment): Submit all CAD files for Task 7 in a ZIP file!.

Exercise 12: Submit the Quantity Take-off in Excel in a ZIP file with the CAD drawings, the and extraction data template....