Catalog Description :

This course will provide an introduction to computers for design presentation and documentation, presenting the basic two-dimensional concepts and practice of AutoCAD software. The course provides hands-on instruction emphasizing AutoCAD entities including editing drawings, layering, layer standards, templates, menus, blocks, dimensioning, text, printing and plotting. Students will translate a hand-drafted set of drawings into a computer-generated package.

An intensive study in the use of Computer-Aided Design and Drafting for Interior Design.

Course Objectives :

This course will enhance the students understanding of design and principals of perspective to augment their work in other design courses. Students will become familiar with CADD systems, and the other computer based tools used by architects and interior designers (Architectural CADD), and the skills and concepts for their use.

Student Evaluation and Grading Methods :

The students are asked to do several projects that are progressively more complex, each introducing more sophisticated concepts, on the CADD systems. They are graded on how they have learned and implemented the various CADD drawing and productivity techniques.

The grading of each project shall be weighted according to the complexity of the project -- the Lab projects are about 90% of the course grade. There are several quizzes and an exam on the lectures and reading that total another 10% of the course grade.

Course Requirements :

1) There will be 9 Lab assignments, each lasting 1 week (some last 2 weeks) which are intended to be completed during the four hour CADD Lab. They are due at the end of the Lab on the date specified and are graded. Lab assignments not turned in by the end of the next Lab will be downgraded as late.

2) There will be 2-3 Quizzes, and a Final Exam, on the reading (handouts and texts) and on the class lectures.

Class Attendance is absolutely necessary, especially at the lectures, since the field is too new to rely on textbooks.

Required Texts :

1. Architectural CADD : A Resource Guide, by Langdon, 2003, pub. by the Architectural CADD Press, Boston. available on CD
(available online through the bookseller www.CADD.bigstep.com  and also at the NESAD-SU front desk) ---  Click Here.
 

Recommended Texts :

1. Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors, by W. Otie Kilmer and Rosemary Kilmer, 2003, pub. by John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
(available online through the bookseller www.amazon.com) --- Click Here.

2. AutoCAD for Interior Design and Space Planning, by Beverly L. Kirkpatrick and James M. Kirkpatrick, 2002, pub by Prentice Hall.
(available online through the bookseller www.amazon.com) --- Click Here.
 

Required Materials for the Student to Obtain :

1. 3 Boxes of High Density disks (DS/HD) 3.5" disks (at least 30 disks, minimum)

2. 3 Iomega Zip cartridges (at least 3 disks, minimum)

3.  1  CD-R  (we recommend at least 10)

Software used in the Class :

AutoCAD 2004

The CAD software used in the course is provided on at least 50 networked CADD workstations owned by the College, free to the students to use.

The students may wish to subscribe to the 1 year student version of AutoCAD for $145 available from www.studica.com (or the "perpetual" student version for $365) or may use the 2D-only AutoCAD-clone called IntelliCAD available as a  free download at www.intellicad.com and www.cadopia.com (1000 use evaluation version) and also provided on the Architectural CADD book CD.

Course Outline : (typical - will be revised somewhat after first class interviews)

Week Topic

1
a Course Outline, Requirements, Grading Criteria, Office Hours
   Demonstration and Getting Started with CADD
   Lab 0 : Play,  Desk and Chair, Start Schwartz Office building project
   -- File Save, Line, Erase, Zoom, Pan, Move, Copy, Fillet
b Starting drawings from scratch
   Lab 1 : Schwartz Office building
   -- SnapGrid, Layers, Mirror, Drawing to Actual Scale

2
a How to draw house plans, & Editing techniques
   Lab 2 : Room
   -- Trim, Offset, Extend, Text, Stretch, SnapGrid, Obj Snap, Polygons, Printing

3
a Symbols/Blocks  - How to draw complex shapes
b Lab 3 : Vacation House
   -- pline, Walls, Windows, Doors, Dimensions, Circles, Arcs, Curves, Prestbo Layer Standards

4
a  PaperSpace Layouts and Layersets using LayerStates - linetypes and lineweights - Titleblocks
   Lab 4 :  NESAD Office redesign

5
a How to draw details with accuracy
   Lab 5 :  Kitchen - plan/elevation/section and details  (using PaperSpace Layouts)

6
a Office Productivity Techniques - Multi-drawing File, Views and Stories and PaperSpace Layouts
   Lab 6 : Three Story Restaurant
   -- Saved Views, Drawing Structure, Layer Naming Standards, Line Trimming, Curved Windows

7
a Symbol Libraries, using symbols from manufacturers web sites, wblocks
b Lab 4b : Three Story Restaurant
   -- Copy Arrays

8
a  Final Project (of students choosing with permission of professor)
    Plans - Sections - Elevations - Details
   --  xrefs

9
a Work on Final Project

10
a Work on Final Project