Professor Geoffrey Moore Langdon

Nantucket Community Schools

February  2006

Saturday, Feb 18, 2006

Space Planning, Design Techniques, Multi-Story Buildings, Layer Issues, Roofs
and Slabs, Rendering, Animation Walkthroughs, Creating Modules, Find and
select, Transfer Drawings To/From Consultants

Time Schedule

9:00-10:00  Design Techniques

10:30-11:30  Productivity Techniques

12:00-1:00  Getting Many Drawings from a Simple Model

1:30-3:30  Multi-Story Buildings

4:00-4:30  Perspective Rendering and Shading Options

6.   Space Planning for a Real Building
     Drawing -   First Floor of a Simple House

     New and Reset

Design Techniques
a.   Space Planning with Fills
b.   Snap Grids
c.   Furniture as Guideline
d.   Text
e.   drawing walls
f.   Layers
g.   Snap Divisions, Snap Distance (in placing doors/windows)
h.   Doors by center, side

Productivity Techniques
i.   Find and select
j.   The Marquee selection tool - thin marquee, bold marquee
k.   Transferring portions of one drawing to another (Clipboard Modules)
l.   USA modules
m.   Rotate, Mirror
n.   Dimensions
o.   Preferences Options - such as  Imperial / Metric SI
 

7.   Getting Many Drawings from a Simple Model

a.   Floor Slabs
b.   Roofs - Simple roofs, and how to modify roofs created by the automatic roof generator
c.   Section Issues, and Unlinked Sections
d.   Elevations
e.   "QuickViews"
f.   Import/export to/from AutoCAD
 

8.   Multi-Story Buildings
     Drawing -  taking above model deleting roof and adding second story

a.   Stairs - Simple stairs from the library
b.   Stories
c.   Decks, Railings
d.   Holes in Slabs
e.   Editing Roofs and Dormers
 

9.   Perspective Rendering and Shading Options

a.   Simple rendering
b.   Capturing 3D Perspectives as jpegs
c.   Creating "hand sketch" drawings for schematic presentations