Brittany-2A

Brittany's CAD page Assignment A: I found this figures easy to create, all I really had to do was use the grid function and the line tools to complete both the images. I found that I like using the the grid tool, and found that it came in handy knowing for the images that followed. In real life it's used for telling a machine where to cut things along a certain line and shape. In game desgin it could be used for making the map for the game (the character map). All in all these figures were really easy, I didn't really have to look at the book, I just drew the image on the computer.





Assignment B: These figures were pretty much the same as the first ones. The only difference is that instead of just using the line tool on the grin, I used coordinates to draw the figures. The plotting of the points ended up being more work, and took more time. So at some places I just didn't use the plotting function. In real life it's for tell a machine where to cute things along a certain line and shape. In game desgine it could be used for make the map for the game (the character map). Its pretty much the same thing as the first two images so it was easy and didn't really challenge me.





Assignment C: These two figures were difficult for me to complete, I had trouble with the mesh tool, it wouldn't work if the lines were in an L for some reason. So I ended up needing to rotate the first of the two in order to complete the figure. After a few trials I got the hang of the tool and the next image came easy. In real life the mesh tool is mostly used in the character design for movies like Dreamwork's Shrek. In the end I was successful in rotating the image and learning how to use the tool. In the second image I didn't need to rotate the image, and the mesh tool ended up work even with the L. I don't know what happened but whatever it was worked.



Kitchen: The kitchen was relatively easy to accomplish, the softs and fiddling with the materials for the different cabnits was difficult, because I was still getting use to the differences between the CAD drafting program and the CAD architect. It will be helpful in the future if I decide to go with a future in architecture, with designing the kitchens for homes. To be creative with my kitchen instead of having a table I decided to build bar. While fiddling around cabnit tools I found a way to make my counter tops come out further form the counter base, make it vary helpful with the design of my kitchen.



Porch: Building the porch onto my bungalow was vary different from building my kitchen cabnits and designing the rest of my house. At first I thought I was doing it wrong, because I could see the basement through the ground. Thankfully I was reassured that I was fallowing the right steps, and doing it right. Other then that I didn't have much troubles with building my deck, and entrance way. It was easy because of my “I want a second floor with a loft” rampage, I went a little crazy with inspiration. But that ended up being a good thing that helped me. The skills I learned while work on this section was, well how to build a deck and entrance way, and how to make sofets into the post holding up the porch. This newly formed skill will be helpful in the future when I decide to build my own home, and if I decide to go for a career in architecture. To show my creative side I mainly only changed the material of the porches to go with the theam of the rest of the house.



Shadow: So far creating the shadows in my yard has been the most difficult thing for me to do, while it came to me easily after being told how to create shadows. It was the wording of the book that confused me the most during this section. By learning how to create shadows, in the future when I design my own home I'll be able to know how the shadow will fall on it during different time of the day. The creative part of this section was designing my yard, to be creative I added another porch of the kitchen, lots of trees, and I changed the material to match the house.



//__Deck:__ This porch was a lot easier to build then the last one that we had to build of our bungalow, while the deck itself was the easy part, the hard part was using the soft tool and moving them to where they needed to be. While the supporting posts on this porch was a lot easier because you only had to click a button and the program built the posts for you. To be creative I changed the shape of the porch, from its original rectangle to the shape it is now. This tool helps architects move faster through the designing process, when all they have to do is click a button and the posts are built for you on a difficult terrain. //


 * //__Layout:__ Creating the layout was relatively easy once it was explained, the way the book describes the process of creating a layout, was vary complicated. But when comparing it to creating the shadows in my yard, it was easier. This could help me in the job field when I need to give the construction worker a blue print of a home, or if I want it present a plan and need to show the layout of the house. This section was pretty boring all in all, you really couldn't be creative because you need to fallow the book for the layout to print correctly. //**



//__Terrain:__ Building the terrain was a lot easier to create then I originally thought it would be. I think that if I had tried to go by the book, it would have been a lot harder. Except I got help which made it a lot easier for me to understand and learn what I was doing. To be creative the shape I used for the terrain line is slightly different then what the book wanted; I also changed the shape of the house. In the life a landscape architect might use this tool to add in the hills of the terrain of an area they need to designe. And taking the pic was also really easy. //





Logo a go go!: Designing the logo was vary easy compared to the rest of the book, it was just creating a picture like I would in art class (but using computer drawing tools) and adding my company name to it. It was vary easy to think of an idea for the logo with my experience in art. Adding it to my library was the only hard part but I got over that. It would be easy to use for company's to quickly add there logo to a layout or house plan, saying this belongs to ... and no body can clame it as theirs.

//__Home Design Project:__ I chose to build a two story home because I was inspired by a photo of a home I saw, it had a drive way that dipped down and the garage is in the basement of the house. I love how modern the home in the photo looked, and I wanted mine to have a similar feel. The downside to the home is that is not vary accessible to the handicapped due to the may stair cases. The hight if the home makes it difficult for maintenance, and if it was built in a place that has snowy winters the driveway would be a problem. The house would be difficult to cool down in the summers or anytime of year because of where you built the house, and cool would be expensive. The upside is that the cost would be less because of the roof, the two stories give it more area but only cost you the price of one roof; and if you built the house in a warm climate than you don't have to worry about the driveway in the winter. If I designed the basement so it was like an apartment then a handicapped person could stay in the basement and never have to worry about the stairs. Unfortunately there nothing I can do to lower the cost of cooling without increasing the maintenance on the home. All and all just making the home look nice and have it be a vary efficient home. //