Prerequisite: NONE
T TH 12:40-1:30 pm
1-3 Credit hours
Room 2104 (Lecture room)
NOTE: Most classes on North Campus begin 10 minutes past the half-hour.
This course is an introduction to computer-aided drafting using AutoCAD 2004. It is not a programming course, and no programming skills are required. It is intended for those who wish to learn how to draft using AutoCAD 2004. This will be accomplished through lectures and labs, readings and exercises. Course material is presented in a series of weekly exercises and discussed in detail in class.
Grades will be based on weekly assignments and a quiz. All assignments are worth 100 points. Points will be deducted (10 per week) for late assignments. A maximum of one half credit will be given for assignments that are more than four weeks late. That is, the most you lose for a really late assignment is 50 points. All assignments are for a period of one week. Re-submits must be in by 5pm on the Friday following the Thursday the original assignment is returned (the next day). Re-submits are considered "late" and 10 points will be deducted, 20 if submitted the following Tuesday, and 10 points/week thereafter.
Assignments are to be submitted in a
"pocket folder."
Make sure you have your name and
course number clearly
displayed on the outside cover. NO WEIRD FOLDERS! NO BINDERS! NO FOLDERS
WITH DENNIS RODMAN ON THE COVER!
Include in your folder only the current assignment.
All
assignments are to be original work - no group efforts. If similar work is
submitted, the final grade will be divided evenly among participants.
Assignments are given each Tuesday and are graded and returned on
Thursday. An "In Box" and an "Out Box" are used for the exchange. The
assignments are graded early afternoon on Wednesdays. If you miss a
Tuesday class you have until Wednesday noon to submit but you must come to
my office and drop your folder in the correct box. This can be very
embarrasing.
Any AutoCAD 2004 text will do as a reference. There are four or five
good ones and they are available at local bookstores, but cheaper from
amazon.com,
buy.com,
barnesandnoble.com,
borders.com -- just follow by
subject.
The course is divided into three sessions, each worth one credit hour.
You may elect any or all sessions, and you may also elect sessions from
Architecture 521 to fill out the term.
You need three credit hours
to satisfy the computer science requirement for an undergraduate degree
in architecture.
Please tell the instructor the sessions you are planning to attend if
you elect the course for one or two credit hours.
NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE
Look for a new course web page by the start of class
THE COURSE IS FULL, COME
TO THE FIRST CLASS AND I WILL DISCUSS OVERRIDES. NO OVERRIDES WILL BE
GRANTED UNTIL AFTER THE FIRST MEETING!
Contacting SCOTT beforehand will do you no good.
A glossary of
Internet terms
Session 1:
Week 1 Windows and AutoCAD Basics
Introduction to the course and the Windows operating system
Windows NT basics, filenames, Start button, NT Explorer,
Notepad, Paint, Calculator, Telnet, Help
Assignment 1: Getting Started with Windows NT and AutoCAD
AutoCAD Basics
Screen layout, Toolbars, Draw Toolbar, Standard Toolbar, Pull Down Menus
Line, Circle, Text, Help, Erase, Undo, Quit, Open, Plot, New
Click for a copy of the assignment
Week 2 Coordinate Systems
Coordinate Display, Opening files, Save, Save As,
computer monitors, jaggies, painting vs drafting, coordinate systems,
point entry methods, Line, Zoom, Pan, User Coordinate System (UCS),
Ucsicon, World Coordinate System, Properties, grips, Blipmode,
Assignment 2: Block M
Drawing Aids
Grid, Snap, Ortho mode, function keys, Object Snap Toolbar,
I/O devices, Mirror, Plot, stretch, Object tracking, Polar
tracking, autosave files (savetime), backing up files
Click for a copy of the assignment.
Week 3 Setting up a drawing
making drawings full scale, Units, Limits, Hatch,
recovering from hatching, Circles, Arcs, Osnap,
creating construction lines
Assignment 3: Fountain
Coordinate Transformations, Editing
Modify Toolbar, Copy, Move, Rotate, Scale, Viewres, grip editing,
Offset, Trim, Extend, Fillet, Stretch, Chamfer, Plot to a scale
Click for a copy of the assignment.
Week 4 Polygons + Using AutoCAD to support rapid
prototyping (as, say, a sketching tool for architects)
rectangle, ray, xline, polyline, doughnut, polygon, ellipse,
2D solid, chamfer, spline, zero radius fillet, Pellipse,
Fillmode
Assignment 4: Floor Plan
Text
Text, Dtext, Text Style, aperture, grip and selection
tolerances, transparent commands, color,
changing drawing limits, Array, pen weights,
saving plotting configuration
Click for a copy of the assignment.
Special for this term: A rare look at the
history of computing in our College
(Some really old slides.)
Session 2:
Week 5 Layers
Layer, bylayer, byblock, layer properties, Object
Properties Toolbar
Assignment 5: Layers
Multiple Viewports
Model space, paper space, tiled viewports, border
and title block, -layer, drawing prototypes, Tilemode
Click for a copy of the assignment (LAYERS).
Click for a copy of the assignment (VIEWPORTS).
Click for a copy of "Square.zip"
Week 6 Blocks
Block, Wblock, Insert, Ddinsert, Minsert, Oops
attributes, Attreq, Attdisp, Attedit, Attest, Atribute
template file, Exporting attribute values, interaction
between assigned attribute, ByLayer and ByBlock
Assignment 6: Symbol Library
Insert
Instantiation (Insert) vs. repetition (Copy), byblock,
Explode, Copy with base point, Paste as block,
Window plotting, Grips within a block, re-defining a
block, Express menu
Click for a copy of the assignment.
95symlib.zip
Week 7 Importing
Typical architectural site plans
Data transfer, Dxfin, Dxfout, DXF files, Linetype, Ltscale,
Spline, splframe
Assignment 7: Site Plan
To copy Site.zip
Click for a copy of the assignment.
Polygon Editing
Pedit, Explode, Break, inserting a drawing, Cal, Divide,
Measure, Id, Dist, Status, List, multiple copies, Rename
Week 8 Dimensioning
Dimension Toolbar, horiz, vert, continuous, baseline
Assignment 8: Dimensions
Dimensioning
radius, diam, leader, user-defined arrow, points,
dimension styles, special characters, prototype drawing
Click for a copy of the assignment.
Fountain drawing
Floor plan
Session 3:
Week 9 Introduction to the World Wide Web
Browsers, HTML, typical HTML file, paragraph, newline,
text enchancements, images
Assignment 9: Web Page
Character formatting
Hyper Talk Markup Language
images, hyper-links, tables, mailto, viewing documents
Week 10 3D Modeling
Axonometric views, Prisms, 3D sketching, 3D copy and
transformations, UCS, Orbit, Surface primitives, Dynamic view
Assignment 10: 3D Model
3D Modeling
Revolved surfaces, Multiple 3D views, Solid modeling, Rendering
3D Model
Week 11 Attributes + using AutoCAD as a design support tool
Recent additions to AutoCAD to involve the WWW
attributes, extracting attribute data, exporting to spread sheet program,
attdisp, attreq, attdia, ddattext, template format
Assignment 11: Attributes
Advanced Lines and Text
Mline, Mtext, text editing, text styles, line types, cmddia, filedia,
importing text
Wall Section
Man elevation
Week 12 Architectural Design and Documentation
working drawing conventions, Design Center, Aerial view,
Internet tools
Architectural Dimensioning
drawing file templates, raster images, external reference
Assignment 12: "In-house" saxophone repair shop
PrincetonHouse.zip
Dimension