New project

We will be designing homestyler.com which I will go over with you on the big screen. Use the floor plan that is included in the post as reference and create it on homestyler.com

Architectural Deezy Intro

An architectural drawing or architect's drawing is a technical drawing of a building (or building project) that falls within the definition of architecture. Architectural drawings are used by architects and others for a number of purposes: to develop a design idea into a coherent proposal, to communicate ideas and concepts, to convince clients of the merits of a design, to enable a building contractor to construct it, as a record of the completed work, and to make a record of a building that already exists.

In architecture, a floor plan is a drawing to scale, showing a view from above, of the relationships between rooms, spaces and other physical features at one level of a structure.

Dimensions are usually drawn between the walls to specify room sizes and wall lengths. Floor plans may also include details of fixtures like sinks, water heaters, furnaces, etc. Floor plans may include notes for construction to specify finishes, construction methods, or symbols for electrical items (press ctrl+2 in autocad to access the design center symbols).

An elevation is a view of a building seen from one side, a flat representation of one façade. This is the most common view used to describe the external appearance of a building. Each elevation is labelled in relation to the compass direction it faces, e.g. the north elevation of a building is the side that most closely faces north. Buildings are rarely a simple rectangular shape in plan, so a typical elevation may show all the parts of the building that are seen from a particular direction.

The first assignment of the class is to draw, out of the good old orange book, the floor plan from page 428 followed by the North and South Elevation drawings on page 429. You will have three full class blocks, or 4.5 hours, to finish these two pages. 
We are going to use architectural units in these drawings, so type "units" and press enter and change the Length Type to Architectural and change the "Insertion Scale" to feet. We are also going to use a standard door size for every drawing that we do in 2d as well as 3d. The door dimensions are: Width=24'' and height=80''.  The walls of the rooms inside of the house will be 6" thick. To add hatched lines, type "hatch" and press enter. Choose the type of "swatch" that matches that of the drawing and click on the button titled "Add pick points". Then click on the inside of the object(s) that you want to add hatched lines to  and then press enter twice. For the outer walls of the structure we will be representing the inside with hatched lines. 
An important part of these drawing is the zoom feature. These drawings will be larger than the drawings that have previously worked on. In order to get them to fit into the screen, you will need to draw the longest line of the home's perimeter; then go to  VIEW>ZOOM>ALL and then zoom out with your mouse wheel.

We are going to fill in these gaps to the sides of the door as a 3" X 3" square. The doors will be represented with a width of 24" or 2'.

 Ignore these dashed electrical lines, we are not going to draw those at all this year.

These symbols are windows, you are not required to draw them for this project. We will however be drawing them in future projects because they are a critical part houses, as you may or may not be aware of. You can draw them if you'd like but you do not have to.