AutoCad – 

Using tools learnt in week 3, we were asked to create our own plans for one of the three case studies. For this, I completed the ground floor of Eames House. I found it hard to sometimes distinguish certain line weights used for certain features and which features were which – for example on Eames House, there are a lot of windows, which I sometimes got confused with the walls, and therefore some of my line weights may be a little off. However, I think that as a first attempt, it went pretty well, and I feel I managed to grasp AutoCad drawing skills and using layers and object preferences better from my learning from week 3.

I need to change my door drawings to a 90 degree to ensure that nothing gets in the way behind those areas.

  • Layers – using current layers and shapes. Lock layers, freeze layers.
  • Using colour to determine layers.
  • Creating a new layer, renaming layers
  • Using Measure tool, Distance tool – to measure lengths, volume, distances, angles etc.
  • Using Layers – for our architectural practice – using CAD layers to have different settings for the shapes you create and then able to name these – eg Layer 1 or Doors and windows, walla, posts etc.
  • Using object properties – changing layer colour, shape, layer properties etc 
  • Using the scale tool
  • Using the align tool

 

Review for next week – 

  • Need to upload a review of Eames house, ground floor plan. Furniture, doors, windows, special features, line weights etc.
  • A slide about the case study, when and who designed it? Design concept etc. Intention? Client? Be sure to include the image and colour of the space etc.

 

Skirting and Coving – 

  • Skirting – a trim or strip of material that mediates the junction between the bottom of a wall or column and the interior floor.
  • Coving – the trim or strip of material that mediates the junction between the top of a wall or column and the interior ceiling. Like a skirting, this is largely used for decorative purposes and to hide and tidy joining of materials. 
  • Skirting and coving can take several shapes, the traditional visible or the modern shadow gap.

 

Window types (Fixed, ventilating)

  • While both types provide space with light and views, fixed windows do not allow for the passenger of air as do opening (Ventilating) windows.
  • Eames House Beam Detail – 
  • – All interior walls should be of the same thickness, using the same distance value in the offset tool.
  • All glass and metal/window panels are located between the beam and to the exterior.

 

DRAWING ORGANISATION AND INQUIRY COMMANDS – 

  • Using Inquiry Commands: utilities (area, distance, angle, diameter, ID)
  • Using Layers: creating new layers, managing layers, isolate/unisolate, move objects between layers
  • Object properties: colours, line weights, types, line type scaling, the bilayer concept.
  • Matching Object Properties

 

Good practice to first check the units – decimals and insertion as millimeteres.

Finding Layers command –

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