Centenary Building Notes

3D Design Procedures & Practice

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Centenary Building My Layers


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Setting Paper Space

Right click then hit ‘Page Setup Manager’.


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To change the plot scale click on the edit button

Check the (paper) plot size here.


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


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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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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

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

I followed the same process to draw the

double doors but this time I did not trim

anything.


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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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Copy tool

Selecting objects

Selecting point of displacement


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Placing copies

Endpoint


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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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Green box

• Enter or spacebar to end command


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Completed Floor Plan: After double checking measurements

Planning layout: Long Section Offset: stairs


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

Stairs

Rails

Landing


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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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Detailed component


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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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• 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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Drawing walls

Drawing window Extending line

I made a mistake with the measurements when drawing this

wall. I realized later on and drew it again at

the correct size.


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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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Array of windows Fillet using radius

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


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Completed array of windows

Landing leading to second floor


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Steps

Rails: Ground floor

I started drawing the rails here


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


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Completed isometric

Axonometric floor plan

1. Copy the image


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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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Trimming

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


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Hatching I left the hatching till last so that I could focus on drawing. Floor plan

Long section


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Short section

Axonometric


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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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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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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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Client presentation

Hand rendered

I added a map of the area


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Axonometric and floor plan

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