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Guest

06-03-2008, 01:15 AM
Hello,
I have a question for the teacher Parson Tim. I was looking for a CAD course online, and I found this website--I would like to learn to draft the finished projects you have displayed for the 1 story course, but I noticed you said you don't teach CAD. I know a little CAD, enough to offset lines, create simple elevations, create new layers etc. but I don't know how to dimension, or how to scale things very well or do other things on construction drawings.
I do know about sections, elevations, and other architectural stuff since I have taken hand drafting classes.
my question is (finally), do you think yours would be the right class to take, or would you recommend a class that teaches more CAD and less about architecture?
thank you!

The Parson

06-03-2008, 10:57 AM

Guest Wrote:
Hello,
I have a question for the teacher Parson Tim. I was looking for a CAD course online, and I found this website--I would like to learn to draft the finished projects you have displayed for the 1 story course, but I noticed you said you don't teach CAD. I know a little CAD, enough to offset lines, create simple elevations, create new layers etc. but I don't know how to dimension, or how to scale things very well or do other things on construction drawings.
I do know about sections, elevations, and other architectural stuff since I have taken hand drafting classes.
my question is (finally), do you think yours would be the right class to take, or would you recommend a class that teaches more CAD and less about architecture?
thank you!

If you have a basic understanding of your CAD as you mentioned, then this would be the course to take. Here is an exert from one of the classes:

Lesson #1, House Plan Drafting 101 Wrote:
We'll begin with the exterior walls. It is very common for the architectural drafter to begin with a preconcieved design. Life is simple when we already have an idea what we are about to draw and the client usually has their layout already figured out. So lets get with it!

*In your CAD, Setup a 24x36 sheet of paper, if you can only set limits on your drawing screen, set them to 96' by 144' or 1152" by 1728"
*For those of you who have to set a scale to your drawing before you can start editing, set it to 1/4" = 1' - 0" or .25 = 12
*Set your Drawing Layer to Layer 0 - (zero)
*Set your Snap Or Snap to Grid to 2 inch and keep it there

Note: In most CAD systems, You are drawing in real life. If you draw a line that is one inch by the coordinates, the program treats and measures this line at one inch. The same would be true if you were to draw a line one thousand feet. The program would measure that line as one thousand feet.

I try to reference CAD commands throughout the lessons as needed so that the process of learning can be a two fold one both for architecture and CAD.

Does that answer your question?

Tim

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