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Assignment 1: PathFinder Blueprint Interpretation (BP Int 1 through 6), Due Mar 6, 3 points.
Interpret blueprints in class, then record your answers on PathFinder. If you lose the handout (I will hand it out in class), you can get it here. YOU MUST ATTEND CLASS ON BLUEPRINT INTERPRETATION DAYS TO OBTAIN CREDIT FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT.
Assignment 2: PathFinder Online Homework (EG Scales through EQ Rectangular System), Due Mar 6, 12 points.
Complete online problems. It is in your interest to complete problems immediately after we cover the associated materials in class. This gives you time to ask me questions, in or out of class. If this is not possible, make sure you complete problems before the associated Exam.
Assignment 3: Freehand Sketch of BP-33, Due Jan 25, 2 pt.
FREEHAND, make a three-view drawing of BP-33. Draw section A-A on a separate page. Don't forget the title block!
- Freehand means no AutoCAD, no straight edges used to make lines, and no french curves or other guides to make curves!
- Include dimensions.
- For the three view drawing, the front of BP-33 should be at the bottom of the drawing, with the right-view to the right and the top-view above.
- Use engineering paper.
- Use metric scales: 1:1 scale for the 3-view and 2:1 for the section drawing. The metric scale is called "metric" because it is the most common scale used in the metric world; however, metric scales are unitless, thus a 1:1 scale means 1 inch in the drawing represents 1 inch on the actual object (or 1 cm represents 1 cm). Since the BP33 drawing is given in units of inches, draw it in inches. Draw it at the scales you indicate (the grid on engineering paper has 0.2 inch spacing).
- Use BLOCK LETTERING.
To make this easier, I am giving you the 3 view and section drawing as done in AutoCAD. The 3 view and sections jpg's are not printed at the proper scale. Use the included dimensions to determine the proper size of your drawings, given the required scales. The section pdf shows the correct orientation. Make sure you understand how to get from the isometric view BP-33 to the three view and section view drawings.
Assignment 4: Green Home Draft, Due Feb 1, 2 pts.
Design a Green home. A Green home will both conserve energy and natural resources and be a healthy & comfortable residence. Use the Green Home Assignment presentation and search "Green Homes", "Green Buildings", "eco Villages", etc. to learn about features that are incorporated into green homes. In a ~one-page memo, describe how your Green home will be green, i.e., describe the green features including benefits and drawbacks. I'm going to assume you aren't a green home expert, so cite & reference where you found the great things you plan to incorporate into your house. Follow my citing & referencing format. Use books, scholarly articles, and good websites as references. I want at least three references, which must be cited in the text of your memo using the "(Author Year)" format.
Attach drafts of the floor plan (each floor) and front and side elevations of your "green" house (each on a separate page).
- The floor plan(s) and elevations are drafts which can be changed for the final submittal. Floor plans and Elevations reflect reality, e.g., walls and windows frames have thickness. Include applicances, doors, windows, etc.
- They can be done Freehand or in AutoCAD or any combination; however, this assignment will be reworked and turned in as part of the final assignment. At that point, the drawings must be done in AutoCAD. When you do your drawings in AutoCAD, use layers, e.g., walls, doors, center lines, hidden lines, dimensions, text, etc.
- If your drawings are by hand, you only need to include a title block on one. ALL AutoCAD drawings must have a title block. Put floor plan or elevation name in title block, e.g., "First Floor" or "North Elevation".
- Show North arrow in floorplans.
- Include at least one dimension in each drawing.
- Use civil engineering (1" = X') or architectural scales (X" = 1'). The X in architectural scales is a typical US fraction, one you can find on a typical ruler, e.g., 1/16, 1/8, 3/16, 1 1/2, etc., not 1/10 or 1/11.
- Place the unique features described in your memo in the drawings, as appropriate, e.g., if you use a thermal mass to store sun energy, show it in the floor plan! Some features are better placed on the site plan (a future assignment).
- Use blocks to quickly add appliances, etc. to your AutoCAD drawing. I have placed some blocks in the course Open Area. If you don't know how to use blocks yet, hand draw them for now. You can also add furniture to make your plan look more professional.
Use the Google Image search engine to find example images of floor plans and elevations, e.g., use "house floor plan" and "house elevations" as your search terms. Also look at floor plans and elevations in the Green Home Assignment presentation. Read ALL of the green home assignments NOW so you have a sense of the overall project.
Assignment 5: AutoCAD Sketch of BP-33, Due Feb 3, 2 pts.
Repeat Assignment 3 in AutoCAD.
- Do not include dimensions or text yet (except in Title Block).
- Include center and hidden lines, but use the default line type (i.e., they will be solid).
- Include the section line, but you don't have to put arrows on it (yet).
- Do not include the hatching on Section A-A.
- Put object lines, hidden lines, center lines, and dimensions on different layers.
- Use the same metric scales as required in the freehand version. Remember, we draw in AutoCAD at full scale, then adjust viewport scale when we print. The scale indicated in the title block must match the scale actually used. Check with a ruler!
Assignment 6: Green Home Details, Due Feb 15, 2 pts.
Create 1 detail drawing of a green feature included in your green home. A detail is a drawing that shows greater detail, often needed for construction. Examples are included in the Green Home Assignment presentation. You are welcome to adapt existing drawings, e.g., one from the web. If your detail is too simple, I will require you to modify it for the final assignment. It should be a construction detail, used to build something. Do an image search on "construction detail" If possible do a detail on some structural element of the green features of your home. You are encouraged to talk to me about your details before you start working on them. Pick drawings that are challenging and force you to improved your AutoCAD skills.
- Include appropriate dimensions and notes. Show of your ability to use dimensions, but don't include uneeded ones.
- Use civil engineering or architectural scales, as appropriate.
- Drawings can be freehand or done in AutoCAD for this assignment, but will need to be in AutoCAD for the final submittal. I recommend doing them in AutoCAD from the start, if at all possible.
Assignment 7: Final AutoCAD Sketch of BP-33, Due Feb 17, 1 pts.
Complete BP-33 in AutoCAD.
- Add annotative dimensions and text (e.g., "Section A-A") to BP-33. All Text in drawing should be 0.2".
- Change center, section, and hidden lines to proper line types. Use the basic non-continuous line types, e.g., HIDDEN, CENTER, and PHANTOM. See the line chapter in the AutoCAD 2D Summary pdf linked from the Schedule page if you need help with non-continuous lines. Set MSLTSCALE and PSLTSCALE to 1 and LTSCALE to 0.5. You will need to type "REGENALL" in the command line to update line types after changing a viewport scale.
- Add arrows to the section line, pointing in the viewing direction of section A-A.
- Add hatching to Section A-A.
- Use separate layers for dimensions, text, and object, hidden, and center lines.
- Use the same metric scales as in the previous BP-33 assignment.
- Treat this as a revision of the Assignment 4 drawing; thus, the date will stay the same in the bottom of the Title Block, but revision 1 will be added in the revision area of the Title block. Describe it in the revision column. Date the revision.
Assignment 8: Green Home Site Plan, Feb 17, 2 pts.
Submit a site plan for your "Green" home. The drawing should include north arrow, boundaries (bearings & lengths), set-backs, house outline, driveway, sidewalk, utilities, notes/legend and green features (drawn and in a schedule). Differentiate between the different lines using line type and/or line weight, as appropriate. Examples are included in the Green Home Assignment presentation. Use the Google Image search engine to find more pictures of site plans, e.g., using "house site plan" as your search term. Your goal is to create a professional site plan.
- You must place your home on site 3, 4, or 6 from this drawing. Your site plan will consist of the border of site 3, 4 or 6, an outline of your home, and the additional items specified below. You must use AutoCAD. Boundary lines must be drawn to the exact lengths and bearings, unless there is a dimension error in the figure (e.g., the 75' dimension in lot 4 should be N88o37'W and 130.52'). Use surveying angles (change degree type using App Button/Drawing Utilities/Units Dialogue Box). Enter units by entering the bearing, using a "d" for the degree symbol.)
- Show border dimensions as in the plat drawing (lengths, bearings, included angles, radius, arc length,...). Lengths and bearing must be next to and parallel to the appropriate boundary line (no dimension or extension lines). Use text (not actually a dimension). You can create the degree symbol in AutoCAD text by typing "%%d".
- Show North. Include utilities. Include a driveway and walkway. Impervious surface on your site is restricted (as covered in class). Determine your lot area and impervious surface area and show that it is acceptable.
- Include an appropriate civil engineering scale in the title block, e.g., 1" = 20'.
- All text (dimensions or otherwise) should print at 0.125 inches.
- Give basic dimensions for your house (e.g., length and width).
- Show that the house follows reasonable setback guidelines (as covered in class) by including the setback boundary. Show the set back distance (with dimensions or notes).
- Include your green features, as appropriate, both in a schedule (Table) and as drawn objects (e.g., solar panels as a array of rectangles, or a ground source heat pump pipe loop). Use notes and/or legend as appropriate.
Assignment 9: Contour Drawing, Due Feb 22, 2 pts.
Draw 20 ft contour lines on the survey grid contained in this drawing. First print the survey grid and draw the contours by hand in pencil, then draw the contours with splines in AutoCAD. Don't forget, streams make contours like a "V" while ridges make contours like a "U" (and where two streams come together, this makes an "M" from the two stream "V"'s and the one ridge "M"). Turn in both the pencil and AutoCAD drawings. There is a summit at B-3+00. There are two streams, crossing points A-6+00, D-0+00, F-7+50 & I-9+00. The two streams join at F-7+50. A 40' wide road goes passes through H-0+00, H-6+00 and F-10+50, with a curve at H-6+00. Make your contours using linear interpolation between known elevations (on the grid) and known features (the summit, streams, and rdige between the streams).
- Draw the streams and road on the map.
- Show the necessary bridge (Draw it!).
- Use Layers.
- No Dimensions needed.
- Don't forget your index contours. They are thicker and the elevation number is shown in line with the contour. Use multiline-text and set background mask to drawing background color. Text height should be 0.1".
The drawing uses Decimal Units and is unitless as far as AutoCAD is concerned; thus, printing it at 1:200 scale means 1 inch in the drawing is 200 units in reality. Whoever made this drawing entered feet without "telling" AutoCAD, so a 1:200 scale in AutoCAD is really 1"=200' (civil engineering) or 1:2400 (metric). Include a civil engineering scale in the title block.
Assignment 10: Road Horizontal Alignment: Due Feb 24, 1 pts.
Draw a road horizontal alignment on this drawing. The road is 40’ wide, i.e., 20' on either side of the center line. The new road center line starts on the center line of Beavercreek Road at a point 900’ feet West of the East edge of the map. It has bearing due North and length to point of intersection of 350’. The next segment of the road has a bearing of N30oE and proceeds to the boundary of the map. The connecting curve has a radius of 400’. Use the method of center lines and points of intersection presented in class. Draw two lines offset by an amount equal to the radius of the connecting curve to identify the center of the arc used to draw the curve. If a line doesn't show properly (e.g., dashes), check it's linetype scale, it should be 1.
- Include a civil engineering scale in the title block. Use a 1" = 200' scale.
- Make sure any text you add to the drawing plots at 0.125”, using annotative objects. Show center line (with "CL" symbol and center line format of long and short dashes) of road and its two sides (solid lines).
- Make an intersection with Beavercreek Rd., i.e., have the outer edges of the roads meet, not cross.
- Move the Beavercreek label to the East.
- Make the road lines heavier than the contour lines.
- Label the road, naming it for yourself (i.e., your last name). Make the name parallel to the road.
- Identify 100' stations along the center line, with 0+00 at the intersection of the new road with Beavercreek. See the Class presentation.
- Label the Point of Curve and Point of Tangency (include the distance from station 0+00 in the label). See the Class presentation.
Assignment 11: Road Profile, Due Feb 24, 2 pts.
Draw the profile of the road in this drawing, below the plan drawing of the road. Use an appropriate (exaggerated 5 or 10 times) vertical scale for the profile. Use a technique like the one shown in class for drawing a profile of a sewer pipe and manholes.
- Use civil engineering scales. Put "AS NOTED" in the scale box in the title block. The Plan view should be 1" = 400'. Indicate this below the bottom left corner of the Plan. Include horizontal and vertical scales below the bottom left corner of the Profile.
- Make sure any text you add to the drawing plots at 0.125”, using annotative objects.
- Include elevations on the Profile, as well as horizontal lines for each elevation. Indicate the units to the left.
- Leave verticals lines connecting the intersection of the road center line on the plan view with the profile (use a lighter line weight).
- Use a Spline to draw the road.
- Label the two views "Plan" and "Profile".
Assignment 12: Road Cut & Fill, Due Feb 29, 2 pts.
Show the cut & fill necessary for the road in this drawing, assuming the road is flat and at an elevation of 270’. Assume the angle of repose (cut & fill) is 2:1. Use the generic CAD method covered in class. One way to check your solution is by trimming cut & fill lines and pre-existing contours to show "after construction" contours. Just make sure you turn in a drawing with ALL of the cut & fill lines and ground contours.
- Use Splines to draw the fill & cut boundaries.
- Leave your offset lines (cut & fill) in the drawing. Make them dashed.
- Identify the fill and cut areas (make the text plot at 0.125”).
- Use a civil engineering scale that is equivalent to a metric scale of 1:1200.
Assignment 13: Site Plan Cut & Fill, Due Feb 29,2 pts.
Show the cut & fill necessary for this site plan if the elevation of the site is 640’. Assume the angle of repose is 1.5:1 for fill and 2:1 for cut. One way to check your solution is by trimming cut & fill lines and pre-existing contours to show "after construction" contours. Just make sure you turn in a drawing with ALL of the cut & fill lines and ground contours.
- Use Splines to draw the fill & cut boundaries. Give it a heavier line weight than the contour lines.
- Identify each fill and cut area with a label (make the text plot at 0.125”).
- Leave your offset lines (cut & fill, where they are needed) in the drawing. Make them dashed and lighter weight than the contour lines.
- Use a civil engineering scale that is equivalent to a metric scale of 1:1200.
Assignment 14: Green House Due March 20 by 11 PM in my office (Submit Electronically), 5 pts.
Turn in the reworked "Green" home assignments ELECTRONICALLY, including the memo describing why the house is "green", in a SINGLE AutoCAD file containing: site plan, floor plan(s) for each floor, front, back, right side, and left side elevations, schedule of green features, and one detail drawing. The memo should be the text of the submittal email (note that emails incorporate the "to:", "from:", etc. of a memo). Your goal is to create a professional quality package.
- All drawings must be completed in AutoCAD in ONE model space in ONE file. The AutoCAD file must be names "LastName_GreenHomeFinal_Year". The AutoCAD file must contain layouts showing each of the features described above. Layouts should be named for the drawing they contain, e.g., "First Floor: or "Front Elevation". Each layout should be maximized (use zoom extents while double-clicked OUTSIDE the viewport). Delete any extra layouts.
- Label each room on each floor plan, e.g., Living Room or Bedroom and include the room dimensions under the label, e.g., 12 x 15. Report the square footage of each floor plan, in a note.
- Use the revision area of the title block to record the revision history of each drawing. ALSO, turn in all previous related assignments (i.e., graded paper assignments).
- TO RECEIVE ANY POINTS FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT (AS WELL AS ASSIGNMENTS 4, 6 & 8) IT MUST BE TURNED IN COMPLETE, I.E., WITH ALL OF THE GREEN HOUSE ELEMENTS: MEMO, SITE PLAN, FLOOR PLANS, ELEVATIONS, GREEN FEATURES SCHEDULE, AND DETAIL. THE FILE SHOULD BE CALLED "LAST NAME_GHF", E.G., "SMITH_GHF".
Extra Credit Problems (Max of 2 points possible for extra credit)
EC 1: Draw BP-33 as a 3-D solid model, using AutoCAD, due March 10, 1 pt. Submit electronically. Include layouts showing front, top, side, and isometric views, plus one layout with four viewports showing all four. The AutoCAD file must be names "LastName_GreenHomeFinal_Year". Layouts should be named for the drawing they contain, e.g., "Front" or "Top"". Each layout should be maximized (use zoom extents while double-clicked OUTSIDE the viewport). Delete any extra layouts.
EC 2: Make a 3-D model of your "Green" Home, using AutoCAD, due March 10, 1 pt. Submit electronically, include separate layouts showing plan, front, and side views, vertical and horizontal sections, plus one layout with four viewports showing front, plan, side, and isometric views. The AutoCAD file must be names "LastName_GreenHomeFinal_Year". Layouts should be named for the drawing they contain, e.g., "Front" or "Plan"". Each layout should be maximized (use zoom extents while double-clicked OUTSIDE the viewport). Delete any extra layouts.
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