Advanced Architectural CADD

Prerequisite: ARC189

Text: None

Course Outline:
Photoshop
Impression Building elevations and elevations
SketchUP & Google Earth
Viz Design
3D Modeling - extrusions
3D Modeling – 3d faces
3D Modeling – creation of perspectives
Rendering in 3D, setting views
Rendering in 3D, placing lights
Rendering in 3D, creating and placing textures
Rendering in 3D, output to file, paper and Internet

Department Policy

Photoshop

Photoshop Exercise No. 1: Coloring furniture

Photoshop Exercise No. 2

Photoshop Exercise No. 3 (chapter 5)

Tikal Temple.jpg
Enormous Chair.jpg
Russian Statue.jpg
The Gang.jpg

AutoCAD Architecture 2010 Lecture Outlines

AutoCAD Graphic User Interface

AutoCAD Architecture 3D

How to customize AutoCAD: Templates and Profiles

Location of files in AutoCAD and AutoCAD Architecture 2010

AutoCAD Architecture Helpful Hints

AutoCAD Enhancements

AutoCAD Architecture Wall Cleanup Priority settings

AutoCAD Architecture How to Create Lites in Doors

AutoCAD Architecture How to Create Elevations

How to Plot Drawings

AutoCAD general information

• General Introduction
• Symbols used in the Text
• Windows Operating System
• AutoCAD menus
• AutoCAD Help Files
• Number Input Conventions in AutoCAD
• Function Key Meanings in AutoCAD
• Saving your Drawings
• Space in AutoCAD
• The Drawing Template File
• Setting Drawing "Limits"
• How to Draw Lines
• How to Draw Circles
• How to Draw Arcs
• Points in AutoCAD and How to Draw Them
• Point Placement Aids
• Text
• Dimensions
• How to Erase
• How to Move an Object or Group of Objects
• How to Copy an Object or Group of Objects
• How to Use the Elusive "Break" Command
• Grips
• Viewing Drawings (Zooming and Panning)
• AutoCAD Slide Files
• The "User Coordinate System" (UCS)
• Layers
• Standard Layer Names
• Drawing Numbering Standards
• Linetype Scale
• Linewidth
• Blocks and XREFs
• How to Print Drawings
• Script Files
• Drawing in Metric Units
 
• List of AutoCAD Commands in alphabetical order and description of how they are used
 
• List of AutoCAD Variables in alphabetical order and recommended settings
 
• General CADD Drafting Guidelines
 
• Computer terms and their meanings

AutoCAD Architecture 2010 Exercises

AutoCAD Architecture Exercise

Annotative Tutorial & Exercise

Annotative Tutorial Drawing (wall section)

Adobe Acrobat

Adobe Acrobat Cool Tips and Tricks - click here to open this file

Adobe Acrobat online collaboration manual - click here to download a copy

How to make a PDF slideshow

Sketchup

Click here for SketchUp basic instructions

Click here for SketchUP lecture notes and basic exercises

Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2010

Click here for the Tutorial and Exercise

Powerpoint

Click here for PowerPoint basic instructions