Week 5: The Autodesk AUTOCAD CERTIFIED USER Exam information

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The Autodesk AUTOCAD CERTIFIED USER Exam

This exam is not mandatory, but is highly recommended!!. It carries value on your CV and certifies your skill to prospective employers. It is a prerequisite to higher level Certification exams on Autocad by Autodesk.

Check the syllabus of the AUTODESK CERTIFIED USER exam. The list of topics, that are required for the user exam are listed here.  Almost all the topics have already been covered in the previous classes week 1 to week 4. You should be ready by now. Else, there is another option.

Individual students who would like to take the exam and get certified by Autodesk, can contact me personally or through the whatsapp group. You will need an extra 2 hour class to revise all topics before taking the exam. This class can be scheduled at a convenient time at a later date.

To register yourself for the exam, please contact the person below.

Reynoso

 

 

 

Week 4: CAD Practicals – Drawing a Presentation floor plan in Autocad

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Concepts covered for the week are as follows.

  1. Layout basics
  2. Revise your dimension styles (annotative styles)
  3. Working with Titleblocks and printing from Autocad 1, 2.
  4. Starting a new drawing from scratch and understanding drawing standards
  5. Workflow for making a floor plan

Classwork test – 6 marks for the final grade

Do the objective type test here . – 3 marks

Download the files given here. Make changes to the drawing file based on the pdf file. – 3 marks

The PDF has some items marked red, that are wrongly presented. Please make changes in the drawing and place them on the layouts. Drawing is on A3. Units are in mm

Place the given drawings on 2 viewports paying attention to

  1. change units to mm.
  2. Layout with right page settings
  3. Annotative dimensions and texts
  4. Titleblock
  5. Viewports
  6. Placed at right scales

Homework for CAD LEVEL 4 – Drawing a Presentation floor plan in Autocad

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Given above is a hand drawn sketch by Ptkizer prize winning architect Glenn Murcutt. Your work in his office and are requested by a Domus, a publishing agency to make a presentation drawing of this house. When asked about presentation requirements, Domus provides you with a sample plan.. such as this.

You are to develop one of the floor plans with your own style. The above style is only for reference, you can develop a plan rendering style of your own.

Do note the following as requirements in your plan.

  1. Rooms and room names
  2. Furniture
  3. Poche – walls and appropriate renders for materials and textures.
  4. Sale and Northpoint

Further instructions

  1. Each plan is to fit within 200mm x 250mm printable area.
  2. To help you, there are resources available here. (blocks)
  3. You can use the template file given here as a start.
  4. The motive of the submission is to understand how to make a professional autocad drawing. You are to integrate all the above topics above into making your drawing. Quality of drawing is more important than the quantity of information presented.
  5. You are suggested to take a print of your drawing and further edit your lineweights and linetypes before submitting. A greyscale / monochrome / colored drawing is allowed.
  6. Total Marks towards final = 4 Marks for quality of cad file + 2 marks for quality of print= 6 Marks
  7. Rubrick:
    1.  For every following mistake made 0.25 marks shall be deducted for the quality of the cad file
      • No template
      • Drawings not placed on viewports
      • Complete lack of Dimension styles / text-styles
      • Complete lack of Linetypes
      • Complete lack of Layers
      • Lack of a titleblock
    2.  For every following mistake made 0.25 marks shall be deducted for the quality of the print
      • Bad lineweights
      • Bad linetypes
      • Non uniformity in drawing quality
      • Lack of scale and northpoint

Submission procedure (Important!!)

Please follow the following steps.

  1. Save your single drawing – CAD file as “Your team name-week number”.dwg.. example mine would be Earthman.dwg
  2. Your team members names shall be included on your common title-block.
  3. Login to Dropbox (sketchpad.1963@gmail.com – modelspace)
  4. Upload your file inside your folder – Dropbox>Submissions>Axx00x0x>First Partial> upload your .dwg file
  5. Print your two landscaped plans on a appropriate titleblock and submit them in class.
  6. Delays will result in 20% loss per week.

CAD Practicals – Making machine drawings for a mechanical part (Engineers)

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Topics Covered

  1. Align Command
  2. Working with Orthographic projections to make plans elevations and sections
  3. Composing objects at the right scale on a sheet
  4. Printing with Autocad

Homework for CAD PRACTICALS – Machine drawing with AutoCAD

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You are expected to draw out both the drawings on two A4 size sheets in the above exercise on AutoCAD.

The motive of the submission is to understand how to make a professional autocad drawing. You are to integrate all the above topics learnt so far into making your drawing.

  1. Deadline for submission: Before 10th Sep 2015. 7:00 pm
  2. Total Marks towards final = 4 Marks
  3. Rubrick:
    1. For every following mistake made 0.125 marks shall be deducted.
      • Inaccurate lines / dimensions
      • Incomplete text / dimensions
    2.  For every following mistake made 0.25 marks shall be deducted
      • No template
      • Drawings not placed on viewports
      • Complete lack of Dimension styles / text-styles
      • Complete lack of Linetypes
      • Complete lack of Layers

Submission procedure (Important!!)

Please follow the following steps.

  1. Save your CAD file as “Your first name-week number”.dwg.. example mine would be Varun-3.dwg
  2. Login to Dropbox (sketchpad.1963@gmail.com – modelspace)
  3. Upload your drawing inside your folder – Dropbox>Submissions>Axx00x0x>First Partial> upload your .dwg file
  4. Print the two drawings from your layouts and submit them at the beginning of the class.

Week 9 – Postwar Challenges: Architecture between the Atom and the Universe

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 Lecture slides

Week 9 – Oct 8 – Postwar Challenges: Architecture between the Atom and the Universe 

Lecture slides are based on the course textbook by Frampton, K. (1992). Modern architecture: A critical history (3rd ed.). London: Thames and Hudson. (Image selection  : Prof. John Stuart)

Suggested Readings 

Richard Buckminster Fuller, “4D Time Lock (1929),” In William W. Braham and Jonathan A. Hale, Rethinking Technology: A Reader in Architectural Theory (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 46–50.

Frederick J. Kiesler, “On Correalism and Biotechnique: A Definition and Test of a New Approach to Building Design (1939),” In William W. Braham and Jonathan A. Hale, Rethinking Technology: A Reader in Architectural Theory (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 66–79.

Additional Reading

Simon Sadler, Archigram: Architecture without Architecture, (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005), pp. 10–51. (Chapter 1. “A New Generation: Archigram’s Formation and Its Context) Biblioteca Digital Campus Qro

Required Activity

Please give your response to the readings here 

You will be evaluated on..
a. Understanding the Content
b. Conceptualizing your Opinion

This weeks readings contributes a total of 4 Marks towards the final grade.
The deadline to submit your responses is Oct 15 at 7:00am. You are allowed to edit your response after submission.

Late responses receive a 20% deduction per week.

Week 8 – Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe before World War II

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 Lecture slides

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Week 8 – Oct 1 – Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe before World War II (Image selection  : Prof. John Stuart)

Lecture slides are based on the course textbook by Frampton, K. (1992). Modern architecture: A critical history (3rd ed.). London: Thames and Hudson.

Suggested Readings

  1. Le Corbusier, “Engineer’s Aesthetic and Architecture (1923),” In William W.Braham and Jonathan A. Hale, Rethinking Technology: A Reader in Architectural Theory (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 32–36.
  2. Le Corbusier, “Architecture: The Expression the Material Methods of our Times (1929),” In William W. Braham and Jonathan A. Hale, Rethinking Technology: A Reader in Architectural Theory (London and New York: Routledge, 2007),pp. 42–45.
  3. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, “Technology and Architecture (1950),” In WilliamW. Braham and Jonathan A. Hale, Rethinking Technology: A Reader in Architectural Theory (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 113–114.

Required Activity

Please give your response to the readings here. 

You will be evaluated on..
a. Understanding the Content
b. Conceptualizing your Opinion

This weeks readings contributes a total of 4 Marks towards the final grade.
The deadline to submit your responses is 3rd October 7:00 am. You are allowed to edit your response after submission.

Late responses receive a 20% deduction per week.

Out of class, one to one discussions on Student Presentations (Progress check)

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After looking at your coursebooklet once more, you can meet your instructor one on one in the library (Room 1, Learning commons)

For your Presentation coming up, it is a good opportunity to review the following

  1. Gathered content and further required content
  2. Philosophical understanding of the architects approach to design
  3. Personal opinion on the architect and the building
  4. Possible directions of further study, topics for the artwork

It is also an opportunity to discuss  the feedback on your readings and the class lectures.

You will set your appointment Here beforehand.

 

 

 

Week 4 – Toward a New Objectivity: The Northern European Experience

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 Lecture slides

Week 4 – Toward a New Objectivity: The Northern European Experience  (Image selection  : Prof. John Stuart)

Lecture slides are based on the course textbook by Frampton, K. (1992). Modern architecture: A critical history (3rd ed.). London: Thames and Hudson.

Suggested Readings 

  1. Hilde Heynen, Architecture and Modernity: A Critique, (Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1999), pp. 76–96 (“Adolf Loos: The Broken Continuation of Tradition”) 
  2. Gropius, W. (1965). The new architecture and the Bauhaus (pp. 19-50). Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press.

Optional Readings

  1. David Leatherbarrow, “Interpretation and Abstraction in the Architecture of Adolf Loos,” Journal of Architectural Education (1984–), vol. 40, no. 4 (Summer, 1987), pp. 2–9.

Required Activity

Please give your response to the readings  here.

You will be evaluated on..
a. Understanding the Content
b. Conceptualizing your Opinion

This weeks readings contributes a total of 4 Marks towards the final grade.
The deadline to submit your responses is the monday 25th Sep. You are allowed to edit your response after submission.

Late responses receive a 20% deduction per week.

Week 3 – Structural Rationalism

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 Lecture slides

Week 3 – Structural Rationalism  (Image selection  : Prof. John Stuart)

Suggested Readings 

  1. Read Pages 51-100 (Chapter XII)  of Le-Duc, V., Bucknall, B., & Emmanel, E. (1877). Lecture XII, on the construction of buildings, Masonry (continued), Methods of execution, simultaneous employment of stone brick and Iron – Economy in the outlay. In Lectures on architecture (1st ed., Vol. 2, pp. 51-100). London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington.
  2. Duell, S., & Wright, F. (1941). New Reality. In Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture .. An autobiography … In the nature of materials … New York?: [Duell, Sloan and Pearce?]
Optional Readings
  1.  Antonio Sant’ Elia, “Manifesto of Futurist Architecture (1914),” In William W. Braham and Jonathan A. Hale, Rethinking Technology: A Reader in Architectural Theory (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 17–21. [netLibrary]

Required Activity

Please give your response to the readings here.

You will be evaluated on..
a. Understanding the Content
b. Conceptualizing your Opinion

This weeks readings contributes a total of 4 Marks towards the final grade.
The deadline to submit your responses is the monday of the next week You are allowed to edit your response after submission.

Late responses receive a 10% deduction per week.

 

Week 2 – Chicago and FLW

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 Lecture slides

2014 – Chicago School and Frank Lloyd Wright (Image selection : Varun Thautam)

2015 – Chicago and FLW (Image selection  : Prof. John Stuart)

Suggested Readings

Click here for the scans. The books /movies are available in the library / online.

  1. Wright, F. (n.d.). The Art and Craft of the Machine. Brush and Pencil, 77-77.
  2. Loos, A., & Opel, A. (1998). Ornament and crime: Selected essays. Riverside, Calif.: Ariadne Press.
  3. Sullivan, Louis (1892), Ornament in Architecture. The Engineering Magazine
  4. Must see. The Mike Wallace interviews [Motion picture]. (1957). [s.n.].
Optional Readings
  1. Wright, F., & Devane, A. (1975). In the cause of architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright: Essays. New York: Architectural Record.
  2. Jencks, C. (1983). Kings of infinite space: Frank Lloyd Wright & Michael Graves (pp. 7-12). London: Academy Editions ;.

Required Activity

Please give your response to the readings and movies here.

You will be evaluated on..
a. Understanding the Content
b. Conceptualizing your Opinion

This weeks readings contributes a total of 4 Marks towards the final grade.
The deadline to submit your responses on the monday of the next week. You are allowed to edit your response after submission.

Late responses receive a 10% deduction per week.

Response Evaluation of the class

Your individual responses and comments are up here. Marks are updated on dropbox.