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Assignment 5 Assignment 5: In this exercise, you will begin to understand how to assemble a plan, section, and elevation with their correct line-weights and overall presentation. Up till this moment, you have learned how to use Photoshop, Illustrator, and now AutoCAD to represent your work from the initial concept of an idea to the finalized product. This next phase of Digital Media 1 is an exploration of documentation through a means of visual representation while retaining detail.
Outcome: In this exercise, a building will be chosen to document, based on the selection given. You will study this building and it’s respective plan, section, and elevation. The first phase will introduce the basic outline of drawing a plan and examining its composition through diagramming, while the section and elevation will be a superimposed “render” using all three medias you are familiar with. After the completion of this exercise, you will acquire essential skills in documentation, analyzing detail drawings, line-weights, visual representation, and final presentation. You will also know the general idea of diagramming in association to the building you have chosen.
Notes: You should have the following softwares installed. 1. Rhino 3D
Layout 11x17 Printed drawings showing all steps of the process. Assigned: March 5th Due : March 20th
Notes: Use AutoCAD in the first phase then Illustrator and some Photoshop.
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PHASE I Steps: PLAN and Diagramming
the Plan: 1. Choose a building you want to document. 2. Open AutoCAD Architecture (PC) or AutoCAD for MAC. 3. Import your PLAN (jpg) into AutoCAD and scale appropriately. 4. Organize your layers into categorical systems (primary, secondary, tertiary, etc.).
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5. Make sure that all layers are labeled correctly and that the lines/geometries used are on their respective layer by color. 6. Begin to outline the plan, placing the respective lineweights to the walls, opening, and other relative details. Remember, you will be using only THREE line-weight types. 7. Once you’ve completed the plan, bring into Illustrator, adjust the line-weights by the colors you’ve specified and lay it onto your 11x17 board. Remember, you have to have your drawing fit on the 11x17 layout and the only way to do this is by creating a new page layout in AutoCAD and print to PDF. There is no other way to do this other than the procedure that you will need to perform. YOU CAN NOT EXPORT THE CAD FILE TO PDF. It will not work. You have to print to PDF. 8. Label our plan drawing on the 11x17 accordingly and save file.
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9. Save the CAD file as 005_FirstNameInitialLastName_ Plan_BuildingName.dwg 10. Save the Illustrator file as 005_FirstNameInitialLastName_Plan_BuildingName.ai 11. Save the Illustrator file as 005_FirstNameInitialLastName_Plan_BuildingName.pdf
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ARCH1353 linear organization
the Diagrams: 1. Based on the plan that you’ve successfully scaled, outline, and determined the line-weights, you will now begin to diagram the plan.
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2. You will investigate various diagramming concepts such as: circulation, datum, symmetry, asymmetry, transition, hierarchy, organization, structure, grid, and so on.
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3. Using the methods discussed in class you will demonstrate 5 diagrams and place them nicely on the 11x17 sheet. Look to right for an example of what your final Plan/Diagram sheet should look like.
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PHASE II Steps: SECTION and ELEVATION
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plan must be scaled! show your scale bar and north arrow
your first board layout
1. Using the same building you choose for the plan phase, you will do the exact same thing for the SECTION and ELEVATION. 2. By the time you get to the Illustrator part, you will need to super-impose the two drawings so that the building expresses the entire section and elevation accordingly. In other words, the section you choose must also have an elevation in that same direction and orientation. Look at the image to the right for more information. 3. Take the Section and Elevation images and bring into Photoshop. You choose the part of section and elevation you will place together, leaving one side as section and the other as elevation. Save this image as a JPG and bring into AutoCAD as you begin document this Section/Elevation, similar to the plan procedure.
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4. Once done, bring into Illustrator. 5. You will save that drawing in Illustrator and then begin to think about how you want to present the drawings on the final 11x17 page layout. Look at the referenced image. Notice how the artist is using different rendering techniques (shading to line-weights). You will need to make the necessary adjustments using Illustra-
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tor and/or Photoshop. The drawings must be scaled and placed nicely on the 11x17 page layout. Label and save drawings.
HOW TO EXPORT TO ILLUSTRATOR from CAD? 1. Go to the tab at the bottom of the interface (CAD) and set up your print paper space to 11x17 with the appropriate scale so that it fits in the view finder. You need to remember the scale you set the page at so that you can document this in your final output in Illustrator. Set your printer to Adobe PDF (or another printer PDF device).
Notes: You should’ve taken notes here. Your instruction will go over these procedures. TAKE NOTES!
2. Scale/move your drawing into the respective window as demonstrated in class and save the file (Ctrl/Cmd + S). 3. Then print to PDF (Ctrl/Cmd + P). Save the PDF to a designated location and prepare to open that PDF file in Illustrator. 4. Go to your new PDF file and open into Illustrator.
WHAT DO I NEED TO TURN IN? 1. PLAN: 005_FirstNameInitialLastName_Plan_BuildingName.dwg 2. PLAN: 005_FirstNameInitialLastName_Plan_BuildingName.ai 3. PLAN: 005_FirstNameInitialLastName_Plan_BuildingName.pdf 4. SECTION/ELEVATION: 005_FirstNameInitialLastName_SECELEV_ BuildingName.dwg
5. SECTION/ELEVATION: 005_FirstNameInitialLastName_SECELEV_ BuildingName.ai
6. SECTION/ELEVATION: 005_FirstNameInitialLastName_SECELEV_ BuildingName.pdf
7. SECTION/ELEVATION: 005_FirstNameInitialLastName_SECELEV_ BuildingName.png
Notes: You must have all files saved according to the requirements specified. If you file is not saved correctly, points will be deducted.
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DEADLINE 1. This assignment is due the Tuesday immediately after Spring Break. There will not be any extensions to this deadline. You have the entire break to work on this assignment and make it look nice. Board 1 is represented in this assignment, so that means everyone should have a similar layout. 2. No magical boxes around your name and other related information. 3. No title. 4. All text related to your name, sec #, and so on will be the same font size and type. 5. You must have two 11x17s sheets printed and pinned up before the start of class. If this is not done before the instructor walks in, points will be deducted accordingly. 6. Computer crashes or other related excuses will not be tolerated. You should be backing up your work. GRADE ASSESSMENT 1. You will be graded on content of assignmet; the plans, diagrams, and section/elevation overlay. 2. Organization of your work on board will be heavily graded. So organize your drawings in a nice and presentational orientation. Grading: 50% for content 30% for presentation 10% for file structure 10% for pinning up on time
if you do not pin up, you are absent and you will have 10points deducted immediately.
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Assignment 5 +assigned 3.06.12 +ON SERVER TBA +print due 3.20.12