ARCHITECTURE 521

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN FUNDAMENTALS II

1-3 Credit hours

Prerequisite: Architecture 411 or equivalent

Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:40 - 11:30 am

Room 2216/19

This course is an introduction to the computer-aided 3D modeling using AutoCAD, 3D Studio MAX, and formZ. It is not a programming course, and no programming skills are required. It is intended for those who wish to learn how to model and render using computer software. 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. 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 which are more than four weeks late. All assignments are for a period of one week. Assignments are to be submitted in a "pocket folder."

Assignment are given on Tuesdays and are due the following Tuesday. I grade on Wednesday, so you may turn your work in to me early Wednesday afternoons. I will snarl at you, however.

All assignments are to be original work - no group efforts. If similar work is submitted, the final grade will be divided evenly among participants.

Resubmited work will be considered late unless the instructor requests it to be resubmitted. Also,

as a penalty for resubmitting, 20 points will be deducted AUTOMATICALLY.

For instance, if you receive a score of 75/100 and resubmit, the best grade you could receive will be 80/100.

The instructor is Jim Turner. turner@umich.edu

Session 1:

	Week 1 	AutoCAD Isometric Drawing
		Introduction to the course
		Isoplane, isometric ellipses
		Assignment 1: ACAD Isometric Drawing

		AutoCAD Prisms	
		line, pline, vpoint, thickness, elevation, hide, plan, copy, 
		3D object, coordinate transformations, UCS, Tilemode
		Assignment 1

	Week 2 	AutoCAD Wireframe modeling and Perspective 
		Projection, line, text, saving views, preset views
		Rounding edges in wireframe, dview

		AutoCAD Tilemode, Model Space, Paper Space
		tilemode, mspace, pspace, mview, hideplot, eliminating borders,  
		mvsetup, plotting, vplayer, psltscale, title blocks
		Assignment 2: ACAD Wireframe / Multiple Viewports
		Assignment 2
		Perspective addendum.

	Week 3 	AutoCAD Surface modeling
		cube, 3Dface, Edge, 3D polyline, Splframe

		Sweeps and Primitives
		rulesurf, revsurf, tabsurf, edgesurf, surftab1, surftab2,
		cuboid, wedge, dome, pyramid, sphere, cone, torus, dish, 
		mesh, cylinder
		Assignment 3:  ACAD  Surface Modeling
		Assignment 3
		House
		Picture
		Picture
		  
		The "One-eyed pig" second floor addition by
		Abraham Kadushin, Architect,
		Ann Arbor, 1990

	Week 4	AutoCAD Solid Modeling
		regions, solids, set operations
		solid of revolution, extrude along path, isoline, 
		dispsilh, facetres, fillet, chamfer, primitives, router
		example, section, slice, align, profile
		Assignment 4:  ACAD Solid Modeling
		Assignment 4
		Dunmore House

Session 2: 


	Week 5	formZ  Introduction
		Menus, Screen layout, Window commands, Extrusions, help
		Saving a model and restarting, coordinate transformations,
		Self versus copy, set operations, ghosted objects,
		Exact sketching, mirror, plotting
		Assignment 5: formZ  Block M
		Assignment 5                
		To download formZ "mini-manuals." Follow the "Download" links. 

	Week 6	formZ  Solid modeling
		Derivative objects, Topological levels, deletion, Section
		Reference planes, Controlled rounding, Drafting, Layers
		Assignment 6: formZ  Mechanical Part
		Assignment 6 

	Week 7	formZ  Terrain Models
		Views, Perspective, Layers
		Adding roads to terrain models
		Nudge keys, Derivative objects
		Topological attribute, Pick options
		Assignment 7: formZ  Terrain Modeling
		Assignment 7

	Week 8	formZ Surfaces
		Topological Insertions, Meshes, Sweeps, Extrusion, 
		Symbol and Symbol Libraries, Unfolding
		Assignment 8: formZ  Chapel
		Assignment 8
		Image
		Image
		Chapel on Mount Rokko Images

Session 3:

	Week 9	AutoVision Rendering
		color and set operations, shade, view, shadedge,
		render, lights, anti-aliasing, shadows
		scenes, materials, material editing, background,
		fog, landscape objects, rendering to a file
		Assignment 9:  AutoVision Rendering
		Render assignment.
		Bump map example.

	Week 10	formZ Rendering and Animation
		Projections, Rendering, Save As
		Surfaces Styles, Lights, Shadows
		Texture mapping, Wireframe, Background
		View toolbar, Underlay image, Match View tool
		Assignment 10: formZ  Rendering
		Rendering

	Week 11	3D Studio MAX Modeling and Rendering
		Screen layout, Creating solids, Modify stack, Coordinate
		transforms, Viewport controls, Cameras, Lights,
		Importing DXF and 3DS formats, Helpers, Rendering,
		Boolean object, units, grids, lines, extrusion, copy,
		Editable mesh
		Assignment 11:  3D Studio MAX Modeling
		

	Week 12	3D Studio MAX Animation
		Material and Texture mapping, Material Editor,
		Rendering Environment, UVW mapping,
		Animation, Track View, Mirror, Metal shading, Constant
		shading, Phoung shading, Combining maps, Glass, Wireframe,
		Path Controllers, Particles
		Assignment 12:  3D Studio MAX Animation
		Assignment 12

	Week 13	MS Word Tutorial
		You are to create a tutorial similar to the assignments  
		from this course. Use any software, graphic or non-graphic.  
		For instance, you can write "How to produce one-point 
		perspective using formZ and AutoCAD."  You are to include 
		graphic images from different programs.

		This assignment is worth 100  points.