Establishing Professional Practice Saving work -Save notes in the F:\ drive so work is easily accessible from university computers or personal, can open the F:\ drive through university website. Do not save to the desktop as this gets wiped. Can also save work to drop box, USB, google drive etc. -Word documents get saved into PFD form before submission
Snipping tool -Press start button (windows button) in the bottom left hand corner and typed in ‘sn’ and click on the snipping tool. Drag the curser around the area you want to capture and let go forming an image. When this image opens up use Ctrl+C to copy and paste using Ctrl+V.
Screen Shotting -There is also a print screen button to use this hold down Alt and press the pri9nt screen button shown in the right hand image above. To save click file then save as then save to the folder and change document type to PDF Short cuts -Undo (Ctrl+Z)
-Select all (Ctrl+A)
-Redo (Ctrl+Y)
-Save (Ctrl+S)
-Copy (Ctrl+C)
-Super save as shortcut (F12)
-Paste (Ctrl+V)
-Closes windows (Ctrl+F4)
-Cut (Ctrl+X)
-see desktop (Windows+D)
-Bold (Ctrl+B)
Photoshop shortcuts ;
-Underline (Ctrl+U) -Screenjump (Alt+Tab)
Annotating go to Insert then shapes and add the shape intended.
Example
IDLE timer -The IDLE timer enables the computer to turn its self off after 15 minutes of innactivity. This closes down the open windows which means that on return to the PC you have to log in again and re-open your tabs. If work is unsvaed the work will be lost when IDLE timer shuts the computer down. -To deactivate the IDLE timer follow the following steps -Ctrl+Alt+Del > task manager > ptocesses > (right click) IDLE timer
Blackboard & linda.com Go to salford university website and click on the student button then when on that page click on the blackboard logo this will direct you straight to blackboard log in. Use the same details to log into your blackboard as you do for your university computer. Go onto the arts and media school site which opens up an announcement page from here there is a collumn on the left hand side (red) there is an option in this collumn for linda.com if you click there it will offer you a link to go to linda.com. this logs you in automatically to your own personal accouont. In linda.com there is a dropdown called library here you will find CAD and interior design. Linda.com is useful for videos which encourage learning. Equiptment bookings Bookings.newadelphi.uk links you directly to the salford page which enables you to look through equiptment and book it out. Open documents at home go to salford homepage then it resources then portal then log in as normal
Establishing professional Practice 02/10/2017 Issuu -Issuu is a programme where you can upload PDF documents into the style of a website. - I created an account on Issuu filling in my basic information such as name, email and username etc. -by entering interior into the search engine on Issuu it came up with a large array of documents for example interior trends 2018. As shown in the image below.
This allows you to scroll through multiple documents at once in a PowerPoint format. A lot of these PDF’s are made to be aesthetically pleasing by altering things like font size colour and imagery. Colours within the document are all complimentary and fit a theme to make the whole document flow. Documents are set up as books as if you are flicking through a catalogue.
The document above demonstrates how the documents are technical and informative as well as pleasing to the eye. This particular document has examples of plan, elevation and isometric drawing. There are also documents on lighting techniques which help understand the way light works with a space and how to manipulate it through clever lighting solutions. All documents have different levels of typography some have minimal with just a few words where as others act as an information centre with paragraphs of writing per page.
Print quality -Screen resolution is 72ppi (pixels per inch) -super photo quality is 1200ppi this is the standard quality when an image is printed at a print shop -photo quality is 600ppi -Magazine quality is 300ppi (high resolution document)
-Newspaper print is 150ppi
A sizes - paper
Photoshop A4 at 300ppi is 2480px X 3508px
VITRA Vitra is a furniture shop based on the work of architects and interior designers. We are using images from Vitra’s for our front covers. We started by searching images by Vitra on google and through tools refined the search to images larger than 4MP. This ensured that the PPI was high quality.
I looked at many images of Vitrahous, Vitra design gallery and Vitra furniture. Once I found an image that I liked I opened the image up in a separate tab. The image I chose was simple design yet manipulation of light made the structure in the image more complex.
The image above (right) was my original design for a front cover, I added a black and white filter to make it more focussed on the architectural points rather than the coloured elements. I then chose a simple black font (Cambria) to emphasize the clean lines of the image. I placed this into the image to where I felt as though it fit in however this drew the eye into the centre instead of pulling it down the image. The image above (left) is my final product I altered the colour of the text to one of the grey tones incorporated in the image as I felt this made the typography fit in rather than stand out. I moved it down to the bottom left hand corner and the orientation of the words so that in fit in around the architectural elements. To me this emphasises the curvature in the staircase and guides the eye down the page better.
Establishing professional practice - Week 3 We went onto Awwwards to have a look at different web pages to look for inspiration for our own web design. We filtered it down to just architecture related websites and the screenshots below demonstrate examples of what came up in my search. http://sprec.com/ I like the website below as its layout is clear with a darker background and bright white typography. Buttons are well spaced, simple and clear making navigation on the site easy. The way each page opens is simple yet elegant as the transition is swift, the background image appears gradually followed by the text giving it a luxurious feel. There is one main image on each page which sets the vibe for that page however a vast level of images are available on the ‘portfolio’ section, this keeps the pages for information simple and shorter.
https://www.gladstudio.se/en/ I like this website as it is bright and airy with a modern feels straight away as you open the page. I like the way the page interacts as you move down it transitioning between different images. Its unique with the way each image appears with a small block of information and links running alongside the images are all of interiors which fit the same theme lots of clean lines and neutrals.
WIX We opened up Wix in the browser and created an account. We created a blank template and chose minimal layout.
Establishing professional Practice - Week 4 Auto CAD -
Vector based package. Photoshop paint and phones uses raster images made of pixels. AutoCAD uses vectors which is made up of series of lines which uses coordinates and simple equations (same principle as plotting graphs). When you zoom in the quality stays the same rather than on Photoshop etc. which pixelates.
Start point-
Open up AutoCAD press start button, then select ACADISO template which forms a good start for metric measurements. Enter dimensions Move the mouse in a direction and then enter the dimensions Use middle mouse button to navigate around the page (click and drag) scroll the same button for zooming in and out. Esc button will cancel, use if anything is going wrong The command bar at the bottom gives you information about what is actually going on at that point e.g. what tool your using, if drawing a line tells you the length, if your selecting something it tells you how many items are selected etc.
How to draw -
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Start by using the line tool and click where to start the line and where to end the line Use keyboard to enter dimensions of the line in mm To select to either move or delete use the select marque tool to click and drag or click once then twice on the other side of the selection. It will select anything which is fully within the area. To select everything which is partly or fully in the box drag from right to left instead (this forms a green box rather than a blue box) Use the ortho tool (orthographic) allows you to draw perpendicular lines (right angles) to turn on and off press F8 The Osnap tool, to turn on and off press F3, to find Osnap menu press ctrl+right click, then select all and take off nearest
To download -
Go to AutoCAD website Go to student download
EPP – Week 5 AutoCAD Brief recap; line tool, ortho tool, Osnaps, marque select. Trim tool can delete lines beyond a certain point making the edges of multiple lines meet up. First select cutting edge, press enter, select lines to trim Offset tool is used to copy lines parallel. Step 1 is select offset tool step 2 is to specify distance from original line step 3 is to select line you want to copy step 4 is to select side you want it to go to.
Epp week 6 Trim tool extension 1. Trim select the boundaries 2. Enter 3. Click shift to extend lines Fillet tool -
takes two lines and joins them together ,finding their point of intersection can find radius default joins a point
F + Enter Current settings – trim > radius 0.00
F + Enter > click on one line > cover over the other and points will join where they meet
F + Enter > click radius > type a radius in + Enter > click on one line > hover over the other and a curve will be created
The space bar – click to finish something and click again to start that tool up again (for example the line tool) Rectangle tool 1. 2. 3. 4.
rec +Enter enter starting point (length) , (use a comma) Enter height
The example below is of the offset tool this is where you select the line use the offset tool type a distance and it will create the same line that specific distance away. If u select a full shape rather than just a line as shown below the full shape will either shadow inside or outside the original shape that specific distance away.
Establishing professional practice Week 7 AutoCADLayers- light bulb turns individual layers off On/off, line weight (the heavier the object the thicker the line weight), colour, line type (dashed, solid, dotted and lock line) Home tab- layer properties - Select a layer to draw into then draw on that layer Copying layers- new layer in layer properties copies previous layer and uses all of its properties Chose ACADISO to set6 up preferences with toolbars for your drawing
Preparing work to print – paper space Layout – modify – page setup manager dialogue box click down and select A1 sheet ISOA1 plot scale mm not INCHES Mac - File page setup menu paper size set up Page plotter will come up however limited to minimum plotters plot scale keep in millimetres 1:1 Steps to title block – new – sheet sets – chose architectural metric – copy and paste ctrl=c ctrl=v onto the layer one on your drawing To zoom in on details of the drawing draw a shape separate to the other drawing on the same page and type mv then click and click object at the bottom then click back on shape you want it to fill and zoom.
Establishing professional practice Week 8 - AutoCAD- creating a block Group of objects, industries use them.by creating a block it sticks things together creating one point to move it by. The parents – whatever happens to the parent impacts the child (hypothetically). Group of objects are all the same as they are copies of one object whenever you adapt the first one it adapts them all so all objects in the group are the same. E.g. floorplan to copy a table and chair just group those to make a block and make a group of these blocks to fill the room. Array tool – allows multiple copies. A series. A polar array is around a point, rectangular array is on two axis to form grid like pattern and along a line to put multiple copies along a line. Start point Use rectangle tool, type 500,500 for Basic Square. Then turn off dynamic input by Pressing f12 then
drag to corners in to change its shape. This making it move the corners in by 50 rather than making the entire line length 50. To round the corners use fillet tool. Do this by selecting the tool then going to the bottom and select radius enter 50, them oppress enter select the first line and then select the second line. Repeat this on each corner. To group the objects put Wblock standing for write block. Ctrl right click osnap settings and turn midpoint on. Then use midpoint to find base point of the Wblock. Then click convert to block. Then press select objects, then select the object then click enter. Then select a file name and save To insert this into other drawings you need top click insert and then it comes up as a template when u hover over insert then you simply click where u want the chair to be placed. It is placed via the centre point of the bottom line as this was the point you grouped it from. To add a table draw a 1000mm diameter table. Draw this 25mm above the chair. To place this correctly draw a line from centre top line of the chair and make this 525mm (plus 25 to any table radius), from the top of this line make the circle And type 500 to make it a 1000mm diameter. Then delete the existing line. Then use the array tool to copy all chair around the table. Simply select the object aka chair type and select array then select polar then chose the centre of the table as the centre point the chairs will then position around the table.
Make a furniture layer. To move something to a different layer just select the object then click on the layer dropdown. I saved the 1000mm diameter table with 4 chairs around it as a block. I then wanted to create a bigger table to I did the same process again but did the table twice the size again 25mm away from the chair. I then did polar array however I changed the number of chairs to 8 by typing 8 in the ‘items’ box. Each of the chairs saves as a different block.
Draw a rectangular table and place a chair 25 mm below it, then use the array tool and rectangular array to copy the chair along make sure you enter1 row. Then enter. To add them to other side select mirror tool click what u want to mirror then press enter then select the midpoint on the rectangle as the mirror line and enter the chairs will then mirror onto the other side. To adapt double click block and press enter. Then to draw table legs draw a circle from the corner then use the trim tool to remove the circle inside. Then mirror this to the other side of the chair. To adapt all chairs then press close block editor, a popup will allow you to save the changes made, these changes will then adapt to every chair.
Week 10 - epp Work in paper space not model space (double click in either to work in that space, read at bottom right to confirm) ISO 25 Select dimension tool use linear for measuring horizontal and vertical and align for measuring lines at angles. Select viewpoint window, right click and select display locked. After locking do measurements onto the drawing while in paper space. Text size 2.5 mm for dimensions Go to dimension tool bar and click little arrow in bottom corner then go to dimension style modify, click modify then change the offset from origin to 4, the extension from dimlines to 4 then go to primary then in primary go to precision and change this to 0 remove decimal place.
To get singular arrow pointing to label use multileader.
Week 11 - EPP Isometric drawings, learning materials on blackboard learn. Isometric drawing is a parallel projection the vanishing points will never meet. Angles are 60,30. We are using 30 degree angles The isometric snap- to find this click to the right of (model) on grid settings. Chose isometric snap. To draw normally click to the correct angle. When the grid needs to be the 90 degree and draw a line up and then switch to drawing left and right on the 30 degree click f5 to switch between the grids. To make an iso circle use the ellipse tool then cl8ick iso circle then it asks you to choose a centre point of the circle. for this I drew construction lines. I then copied to the other side to made the shape have depth.
Establishing professional practice Week 12 – sketch up lesson 3D Geometry – • • • •
Point – vertices, vert Line – edge 2D shape – face Everything is built from triangles e.g. a pub table 3 legs will never be unsteady
We need to align the view to draw in different axis To pan hold left hand click and middle mouse button To zoom scroll middle mouse button To orbit (look around) you click the middle mouse button To draw a rectangle use R We then had a go at drawing on different axis, and practicing using these tools Face directly onto an axis to draw onto it in the image (left) the arrows point the direction the view faced when drawing the images, for example the direction shown by the red arrows drew face number 1 etc.
Next step was extruding objects. Create a rectangle, use push pull (press p) to extrude the object up, the arrow will show the direction. The next step we learnt about was groups. Draw selection marquee around objects then right clicjk and make group. Double click inside you can enter and edit the group. Then to exit click outside the group.
EPP Week 13 Sketch up week 2 The first thing we did was create a measured base for a house, we then used extrude to make this base a 3D shape with height. We grouped these shapes as one. Shown in part 1 We then used this and entered the group and drew on lines down the centre of the shapes. Shown in part 2. This saves as one full group. I then selected the lines and used the move tool to drag the centre lines up this formed the roof. As shown in part 3.
The next step we used the offset tool on the bottom to take in the outside walls, we then used push pull tools to drag the outer walls up creating the eaves. To create the chess board we drew rectangles and extruded them, we drew lots of these then selected every other. Then pressed B this is bucket tool I then selected the colour I wanted this filled the squares in. To copy and paste press control on the move tool.
Week 14 epp We started the lesson by creating 3 6000mm2 to form an L shape, this was extruded upwards to form a solid house. We then created a roof by forming a 2d shape then using the follow me tool again, for this I clicked the roof surface then clicked follow me tool then licked back on the face of the 2d shape, this then followed the edge of the roof around filling it in to the roofs L shape.
Multiple copy tool – extension of the copy tool • • •
Object, use move tool and ctrl to make the copy Then click to an ok position Type xn (n is number of copies, e.g. x5 is 5 copies) do not press anything on the mouse
Components - extension of the group tool • • •
When you group and then copy whenever you edit the copy it won’t affect the original However when you make it a component and copy it, whenever you edit the copy the original component will also be edited. To make a component select all as you would with a group right hand click and press make component.
Epp week 15 This lesson we recapped on how to build staircases. In which we used components and developed how to create a symmetrical staircase. To do so we created half a staircase then copied it, we used the scale tool to flip the copy into the opposite form. Then we just moved the copy up to the original lining the two up to create a full stair case. We then moved on to create a spiral staircase. The tool to create the step is the polygon tool. Then alter the amount of sides as to how many steps you want on a full cycle of stairs, the average is 16. Click polygon then type 16 then press enter and draw your shape. Draw one segment on and delete the rest of the polygon. Make this a component. Then I use rotator tool (shortcut Q) the copy, the same way as you do with the move tool, click the centre tool then the outer corner, hold shift then click the other corner to copy them all around the centre point. This creates the 16 sided polygon but it’s made out of components.
Go in a component and push up 160mm, then copy this layer on top of its self and type x15 then enter, this create a stack. Then simply remove the rest of the stairs leaving the spiral formation. This can be done by selecting the steps while holding control then use the move tool to take the spiral away from the rest of the steps then delete them.
We used our knowledge of sketch up tools to create a booth for a restaurant/bar, and extras to go in it such as cushions and smaller table accessories.
Week 16 epp First we imported the scale plan into a blank sketch up document.to do so we changed the import options to all image type. We then scaled the image up by adding the tape measure to the plans and making the measurement from 0 to 100 and make this the correct measurement. The next step was to overlay the outlines for the walls over the top of the plans then offset them by 3300 to create the wall thickness. From this we used the push pull tool to make the walls 15 meters tall. I tyhen made the walls a group.
Next step was to create a chair. To do this I creates a square 1500 by 1500, the next step was disecting it into 4 parts. I used the two point ark mid point to midpoint and used the tagent line to join curve at a flat point. I then used the rotation copy as learnt in previous weeks x3, to create a full square with curved edges. I then move copied this base and rotated up 70 degrees to form the back of the chair. So that it is set at a slight slant. I then added a rectangular base underneath the chair.
The next thing I did was create the base for the chairs to go on top of. To do so I created basic stairs using the rectangle tool and the push pull tool, I then made platforms coming off the stairs.
The next step I took was adding chairs onto my platforms, I used the move copy x10 to fill the roows out. I went on to create the judges seats and table on a rasied platform with backdrop again using a combination of the rectangle tool, the arc tool and the push pull tool.
Week 17 Intersecting faces I started by drawing a circle and pulling it up on the blue axis to form a cylinder. I then repeated this step on the red axis separately. I then moved the cylinder from red axis to the one on the blue and clicked interest faces. Next I deleted to the cylinder sticking out to leave a hole through the centre of the original cylinder. This is the solid tool toolbar;
The next thing I did was create the same two cylinders each in separate groups, then used the second button on the solid toolbar. The third button simply makes them one group. The third button on the solid tool toolbar simply subtracts one shape from the other dependent on what order they aare selected.
Layout 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Save your work View > animation > add scene View tool bar > turn on view Scenes name scenes Right click on screen and add scene Change camera to parallel projection mode to give you a flat view
File export > export as DWG > 2D graphic Need to change raster to vector, under sketch up model > view > vector (changes from jpeg to autocad) Needs to be a parallel projection
Final week Epp First thing we did was open up the sandbox via toolbars Firstly drew a square and set it at 3000 by 3000 then dragged along one axis to create a row then along the other to create a grid. Then use the third button on the toolbar to create the hills in the grid. We set the radius at 25,000. Then clicked and dragged elements of the grid. The next step was to test the from contours tool. For this we drew a rectangle and used the freehand tool to create lines within the square then drag them up on the blue axis. The next step is to select all of the lines including the base then press from contours this will then create a hill based around your lines.
The next step was to use the from skratch and the smoove tool to create a hill landscaspe. Then drew a rectangle above the landscape roughly the same size. Within this I used the freehand tool to create a ‘river’ then deleted the surrounding square. The next thing was the use the stamp tool. I selected the river group then pressed stamp then pressed the landscape and positioned the stamp.
We learnt how to import trees, when searching for the tree go to setting then advanced and change the file types to PNG. Save the image in file. In sketch up go to file import then image. Use the drop down to select all supporting file types. Once I did this I made sure I had use image as selected as image. Then selected my image and imported. Next I explide the tree to make it a rectangle with a pictuire on it. I linesd the camera up to face it then make it into a component. Press face camera, then set the axis. This will mean that the tree will face you no matter what angle you view from.