Question: Do you want an email scan of our books or will they be collected next class?
Response: Yes, I reviewed students notes after class. We also gave students the option to scan and upload their notes if they preferred, see the assignment on blackboard.
Question: Are you collecting notebooks today (10/17) or next week? I heard there was some talk about it but I didn’t catch on which day will it be.?
Response: Yes, we are collecting notebooks today (10/17) for the 2:30pm and 6pm sections.
Question: A few more questions, since the plan doesn’t show any doors are we supposed to add them? And what is this big rectangle at the back of the house supposed to represent?
Response: Yes, you should add some doorways to the project. Focus your work on organizing your files, precision and accuracy rather than complexity in your design. Be sure to refer to the pictures to identify items in your plan. I believe that item is actually a reflecting pond and that actually it is only on the large side of the supporting wall. The plans may not reflect perfectly the built conditions.
Question: As I was doing the floor plan for the Ault House I noticed that most of the interior walls are only 3” thick. I already scaled the drawing before for the basement plan. Do I just leave them at 3” or make them 6” instead?
Response: A typical dimension to use for interior walls is 4 ¾” or 5 inches (for interior finishes) see the attached sketch.
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Question:
I am currently making the pdfs and whenever I do them the text in red from the title block does not show. Do you know why that is?
Response:
Check your layer is set to print, use the “LA” command to open the layer profiles manager and make sure the layer is set to printing. Change the settings from figure 1 to figure 2.
Note: Checking for errors like this one, is one of the reasons this is the second assignment for which we asked you to print PDFs. Getting the prints accurate and with good graphic line weights is an important part of making a good drawing set.
The AutoCAD workshops are now up and running, you are encouraged to attend all of them to support your auto CAD skills.
TUESDAY | 12:35PM – 2:30PM | V817
STEVEN ZIMMERMANN
Student Challenge
I went twice to the center and was told the first time that the exhibit is not open is not open because of a press conference/meeting.
Optional Solution
Because of your accessible trouble please turn your essay from photo essay more and Internet research PowerPoint. The describe the architect and the competition project from online sources.
Question:
I was wondering what exactly we had to put in the box, if you can give an example it would be appreciated.
Response:
In this box you put identifying information about the drawing. You may have to copy the text out of the block if you still have your information in block form.
An example follows:
Drawing title: STRUCTURAL GRID
Drawing number (a unique number for each drawing will go into the drawing number conventions in another class): S-100.01
CAD file No. (the filename or part of your drawing): [Aptekar_F_19_Dwayne-Johnson(01_Site).dwg] OR [01_Site]
Page ([the page number] OF [the number of pages in your drawing set]): 5 OF 10
Question:
I have scaled the maps in the Model side, then I made the viewports on the other side, and changed the scale in there. But I’m having problem with the scaling inside the viewports, it just zooms in and the drawing can’t be seen.
Response:
It does take time to get use to the interface of AutoCAD, sometimes it is necessary to double-click the outline of the viewport in order to control the zooming in paper space. If you get stuck in a sub view you may have to flip back to model space and then back to paper space. Also review the post titled Viewport scaling for information on custom views and working in paper space. Another useful trick to see your area in your viewport is use the zoom command “extents” it will zoom so you can see all your work in your view.
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