Centenary Building Notes

3D Design Procedures & Practice

Centenary Building My Layers

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3D Design Procedures & Practice Setting Paper Space

Right click then hit ‘Page Setup Manager’.

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Check the (paper) plot size here.

To change the plot scale click on the edit button

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Make sure that scale is 1:1 mm if so then paper space should be ok.

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3D Design Procedures & Practice Location plan

I got an image of the location plan from Blackboard and I imported it into Auto Cad. Floor plan

I started drawing the floor plan here. As you can see I was still trying to workout where things go and if the measurements were right.

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3D Design Procedures & Practice Doors

The measurements looked fine so I went on to the doors. I drew a small box, line and a circle to create the door.

Trim tool

I trimmed the unwanted parts of the circle

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Mirror tool

I followed the same process to draw the double doors but this time I did not trim anything.

After I mirrored the door I then trimmed the excess off both doors.

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Fillet

Completed Floor Plan

I noticed that some of my measurements were wrong, so I went back to the site to double-check them.

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3D Design Procedures & Practice Copy tool

Selecting objects

Selecting point of displacement

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Placing copies

Endpoint

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3D Design Procedures & Practice

Extend EX – Keyboard shortcut To Execute • Select object(s) or (select all)

Enter or spacebar • (Fence/Crossing/Project/Edge/Undo) •

At this point I simply selected the objects that I wanted to extend by drawing a green box around them from right – left.

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3D Design Procedures & Practice Green box

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Enter or spacebar to end command

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3D Design Procedures & Practice Completed Floor Plan: After double checking measurements

Planning layout: Long Section Offset: stairs

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Stairs

Landing

Rails

Drawing steps I changed the color of the stairs so that I could see them better.

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3D Design Procedures & Practice Array AR – Keyboard shortcut I created a path array

This toolbar enabled me to edit the path.

The hotgrips enabled me to move the steps

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Rails

Trim

Copy

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3D Design Procedures & Practice Detailed component

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3D Design Procedures & Practice Isometric drawing To set isometric mode: • •

Right click on the grid in the status bar Click on settings

This box should appear

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3D Design Procedures & Practice •

Choose Isometric snap

Another way of doing this is by right clicking on ‘object snap’ in the status bar, settings and then ‘snap and grid’.

Lift

Drawn using polyline

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3D Design Procedures & Practice Drawing walls

Drawing window

I made a mistake with the measurements when drawing this wall. I realized later on and drew it again at the correct size.

Extending line

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3D Design Procedures & Practice Trimming & Extending

I trimmed the lines I did not need and extended the wall. The result is show below

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Fillet: Fire door F – Keyboard shortcut

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3D Design Procedures & Practice Array of windows Fillet using radius

I used the fillet to round off the edges of the windows

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3D Design Procedures & Practice Completed array of windows

Landing leading to second floor

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3D Design Procedures & Practice Steps

Rails: Ground floor

I started drawing the rails here

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3D Design Procedures & Practice

I used the same method as I did for the long section when drawing the rails.

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3D Design Procedures & Practice Completed isometric

Axonometric floor plan

1. Copy the image

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3D Design Procedures & Practice

2. Select object from right to left

3. RO – Rotate to 45 degrees and make sure cursor is on the right. A preview of the image should appear.

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4. Drawing line to make wall Copy I can copy and paste to save time.

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The windows, doors and rails were the last things that I did in this drawing because they had more details.

The Axonometric so far

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3D Design Procedures & Practice Trimming

I trimmed overlapping area’s in this case the windows.

Completed Axonometric

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3D Design Procedures & Practice Hatching I left the hatching till last so that I could focus on drawing.

Floor plan

Long section

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3D Design Procedures & Practice Short section

Axonometric

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3D Design Procedures & Practice Dimensioning To change the settings of the dimension use the DIMSTYLE command to bring up dimension style manager.

Floor plan in viewport

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3D Design Procedures & Practice All my drawings

Tools I used PLine: PL – Keyboard shortcut • Specify first point • Specify next point Trim: TR – Keyboard shortcut • Specify object or select all • Enter/Spacebar Mirror: MI – Keyboard shortcut • Select objects • Specify first point of mirror line • Specify second point of mirror line • Erase source object – Yes / No

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3D Design Procedures & Practice Copy: CO – Keyboard shortcut • Select objects • Specify base point or (Displacement /mode) • Specify second point or (Array) • Enter/spacebar Extend: EX – Keyboard shortcut • Select object or (select all) • Select object to extend Offset: O – keyboard shortcut • Specify offset distance • Specify object to offset or (exit/undo) Fillet: F - Keyboard shortcut • Select first object or (undo/polyline/Radius/Trim/Multiple) • Select second object or shift-select to apply corner or (Radius) • Enter or Spacebar to end command Array: AR – Keyboard shortcut • Select objects • Enter or spacebar • Enter array type • Select grip to array

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3D Design Procedures & Practice Client presentation

Hand rendered

I added a map of the area

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Axonometric and floor plan

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