Kym2A

Hello! My name is Kym and welcome to my wiki for displaying my work in CAD For Architects!

= Chapter 5 - Kym's Bungalow - 'Wall Cabinets and Soffits =

This chapter of the Cad For Architects book is focused on creating wall hung kitchen cabinets and soffits above the cabinets to fill in the empty space. This is a very useful tool, because with this I can know how to edit cabinets and soffits in the future. Soffits are used for more than just cabinets, so this is a very important tool for architecture. If I was installing cabinets in my own house, I would understand how to line them up and how to line up soffits so the tops of my cabinets are not just collecting dust. The cabinets were giving me trouble when I was makinf the double cabinets above my stove. As you notice, the cabinets do not swing opposite each other as connected cabinets should. Since this is minor, I messed with it a bit and then gave up. Even with this slight cabinet error, I successfully made the cabinets and soffits line up along my wall and even had time to put in decorations such as lighting and flowers on my table. I can't wait to use these cabinet tools in a house I design on my own time! Being creative, if you notice, I chose a different style stove, sink, refrigerator, and even added curtains (the window across from the large standing cabinets). I even made themes for each room by color! My kitchen is blues and pinks. :D

= Chapter 8 - Kym's Bungalow - Adding a Porch and Deck =

In this chapter, I learned how to add porches and decks onto my house, compared to last week when it was focused on internal improvements. In doing this, it built my porch skills and improved my roof, stair, soffit, and railway skills. This will assist me in the future if I decide to add a deck or porch onto my house, I would understand the gen- eral aspects of what to do. When I was adding stairs off of my porch, I accidentally made them up instead of down. Instead of deleting and redoing it, I tried adding down stairs attached to the up. It did not work as well as I had hoped, so I deleted and fixed it to the way the book says it should be. I was very successful in this week in the fact that I completed my deck in one class and my front porch in about half of a class. I was even able to get extra creative with chairs, plants, a barbeque, and lights on my patio.



= Chapter 10 - Kym's Bungalow - Rendering = = = = = = = This week I have been working on putting my house into an actual place on the ground (com- pared to floating above the ground like in previ- ous pictures), adding outside fixtures such as a road, driveway, trees, and other fun things like cars and play sets. In doing these things I learned how to put all of those objects onto a plan. It was- n't much new learning since I already knew most of that, it was just putting it together. If I were to try to use these skills in "the real world", they pro- bably wouldn't help me very much because a house generally would not float above the ground in such a way. However, I bet knowing how a driveway should be set up would help if you were planning to pour your own driveway or walkway. Planting your own trees in comparison with how your house looks might be a good tool to know, also, along with outdoor decorating. This will help me in CAD a lot, though. Floating houses aren't helpful and roads could be important to a future plan of mine! I was very successful this week because I did not run into any major problems. I was able to put all of my creative aspects onto the plot very easily and even got to change my background to something I liked better than the default. I can use my successful placement, resizing, and plotting to be equally successful in the future! I was extra creative by using different cars, trees, a play set, flowers, and even a parking stop! I really like my bungalow. Something to be proud of. :)

= Chapter 11 - Quick Printing and Layout Designs =

This chapter, I learned how to make layout designs and use those to print my plans. This compares to last week when I was working on physics. I used the book to learn how to use layouts, which I found surprisingly useful and discovered that I liked it a lot. The tools used in this could be very useful in the future when I wanted to show my designs to a customer to propose my ideas. This is very important because you can't get someone to support you if they don't know what you are capable of. The only problem that I had with this was when I was trying to take cross section pictures and I didn't send the pictures to the layout correctly. They weren't sending the right size and so I had to re-size the dimensions for the transfer until I could actually get them on there right. It worked well, though, and I was successful in it. I was very successful at making the curved lines on the edges of my boxes labeled "CouchCo" and "Page 1". This apparently was a problem for a lot of people, but I got it first try. The most creative thing I did in this section of the chapter was to take my diagonal views of the house from different positions than displayed in the book. I didn't like what they chose to see, so I took pictures from somewhere else.

This picture is very similar to the last picture in how it is a layout view of my house. However, this one is a floor plan rather than a cross section. This is different from physics in many ways. Completely different than what I did last week. I didn't learn anything new, really. I guess I learned how to turn on dimensions, but that wasn't very new to me since I knew how to turn the dimensions on anyway! This can be used in future CAD, though because it is very important to know the dimensions of your plan and to be able to print your plan. This can be used in the real world by being able to understand dimensions on a plan someone else shows you. This is very important to know. I did this step very quickly and did not run into any problems whatsoever. I was not creative at all in this section of the book. I suppose my name is creative: CouchCo.

= Chapter 12 - Steps Towards Becoming a Chief "Power User" = The most recent thing that I did in the CAD for Architects book was to create a completely different house and to change the landscaping dimensions of the ground under the house. In this section of Chapter 12 I learned how to edit the ground underneath the house I built. I used the landscape tools to make a very interesting land pattern. These skills probably couldn't be applied to the real world because you don't generally decide what the landscape is going to look like by drawing a few lines in the dirt. However, it will help me in the future of this class to be able to change the dimensions of the landscape in case someone wants a house on a hill or on a deserted island. I had one problem with my roof. It took me sooooooo long to fix it and eventually I had to completely delete my walls and re-build them so that they could appropriately assist in the creation of the roof. It came out right, though. I believe I was very successful in this section because I changed my landscape well and edited all that needed to be edited to make a well designed, pretty house. I was quite creative in my squiggly lines I had to make that set the basis for the landscape determinant. They were very pretty lines that I liked and wish I had taken a picture of.





This last piece in the CAD for Architects book that I had to do was to create myself a logo. For this, I used the CAD tools as if I were in the CAD class rather than the CAD for Architects class. The purpose of this was to teach us how to create items that could become part of the library in our programs. This is a very helpful tool because it gives you the ability to never be without something that you need for a plan. Again, it doesn't really apply in the real world unless you plan on becoming an architect and using the program for that. The only problem I had when making my logo was when I was trying to make my stick figure couch and a line was a bit crooked, which made it look like it wasn't lining up with two other lines, when it was. What I did to fix this was simply to delete the troublesome line and re-draw the line, this time inputting dimensions into every part of the couch to ensure that it would work properly. I feel that this project allowed me to really shine in my creativity by not only coming up with a creative company name, but also drawing my own logo that went well with it. I felt that my creativity really shined in this unit and I liked making this quite a bit. Maybe regular CAD is more for me. Who knows?