2011 Series - House Project

Week 17

Monday June 13-
Today I worked on my house project on Photoshop. Finished most of the pages with a new layout and logo.

Tuesday June 14-
Continued to work on Photoshop creating more pages, I added research and references.

Wednesday June 15-
Today I finished the book for my house and added a table of contents and a page for the mission statement.

Thursday June 16-
Today I posted my house project book onto my blog and made a folder for it to copy. Then I organized all my other assignments into folders to email and save.

Friday June 17-
Absent

Week 16

Monday June 6-
Today I edited my camera views on Envisioneer and added another title block for the interiors of my house. Titling the camera views will make the animation process easier when I am ready to do that.

Tuesday June 7-
Today I continued to work on my house project, mainly the inside of it to get it ready for animation.

Wednesday June 8-
Today I started doing the animations for my house, still working on getting the right path. Also added some terrain to the landscaping of the house for the birds eye view of the animations.

Thursday June 9-
Today I started the cover page for my book of projects on photoshop. I added in my logo and name and made my own layout.

Friday June 10-
Today I finished my cover page and started doing the inside pages of my book.

HOUSE TITLE BLOCKS

Week 15

Monday May 30-
Today we had grade 8's visit us to look at our blogs and the projects we were working on.

Tuesday May 31-
More grade 8's came today and we continued to work on our house projects and modeling on Rhino.

Wednesday June 1-
Today I finished all the landscaping and furniture in my house and finished all the views, it is now ready for animation.

Thursday June 2-
Today we finished up all our assignments on Rhino and posted them in full detail to be marked. I added different views of my screwdriver and V-block to my blog and rendered the images.

Friday June 3-
Absent

Screwdriver - Rhino

This was our second project on Rhino. A bit more complicated to draw because it has curves. I got up to this point but still need to work on the chisel on the end to complete it. Once i finished the end, I rendered it (second image). From doing this assignment I learned how to draw curved lines and how to trim lines to make a wifeframe and then later render it to make it 3D.

V Block- Modeling on Rhino

This was our intro to Rhino, we learned how to draw our image and then render it to make it look 3D.

Landscaping on Envisioneer

Week 14

Monday May 23-
Holiday

Tuesday May 24-
Today I continued to work on landscaping for my house project.

Wednesday May 25-
Today we did some modeling on Rhino, I finished the first drawing with two more to go.

Thursday May 26-
Absent

Friday May 27-
Absent

Week 13

Monday May 16-
Today we finished our space ISU and had to email it to Mr.D by the end of the period.

Tuesday May 17-
Today I worked on my house project and finished almost all of my title blocks and elevations.

Wednesday May 18-
Today I finished my elevations and started to add landscaping to my house.

Thursday May 19-
Absent

Friday May 20-
Absent

Week 12

Monday May 9-
Still working on our house projects, finished dimensions and room labels.

Tuesday May 10-
Today I started to put elevations onto a title block, making different views of my house.

Wednesday May 11-
Today we had a lesson on bitmap and vector images, then I did worked on my design statement for my house.

Thursday May 12-
Today we had an intro to our ISU essay on space exploration. Then we continued to work on our house projects.

Friday May 13-
Today we started our Space essay ISU and worked on it for the whole period.

House Project on Envisioneer

Week 11

Monday May 2-
Today we worked on our house project for the whole period.

Tuesday May 3-
Waterloo for Skills Canada

Wednesday May 4-
Today I worked on my house project and finished the kitchen and windows.

Thursday May 5-
Continued to work on my house project, added in a covered porch and furniture inside the house.

Friday May 6-
Today we got a lesson on architecture, we looked at different websites and new ideas for our projects.

Final Presentation Drawing

Week 10

Monday April 25-
Easter Monday

Tuesday April 26-
Today we continued to work on our house project and we looked at the floor plans for the St.John's addition.

Wednesday April 27-
Continued to work on house project. Finished layout on AutoCad, moving to Envisioneer.

Thursday April 28-
Today I added windows and doors to my presentation drawing of my house on AutoCad. I also added text and other details.

Friday April 29-
Absent

House Floor Plan - First Draft

Chapter 12- Hands on AutoCad

House Planning & Research

http://www.korel.com/
http://andyshowto.com/home_design.htm
www.thehousedesigners.com
http://www.homestyles.com/http://www.homeplanner.com/design_details/ 

I used all of these websites when researching for my house design and liked this set up in particular. My house is has a similar design but I omitted a few rooms and changed around a few things.

Bubble Diagram

My house will be a two bedroom, two and a half bath, one story house. It will be an approx 2000 square foot bungalow with an easy accessibly kitchen and living room. Plenty of storage and a covered porch outback. Good size bedrooms and a two car garage will also be included.

Week 9

Monday April 18-
Today the grade 11's watched the grade 12's give us a presentation on Sectional Drawings.

Tuesday April 19-
Today we completed quizzes for chapter 12, which was hands-on AutoCad. Then we continued to work on our house assignment, starting the floor plan.

Wednesday April 20-
Today I finished the first draft of my house plan on AutoCad, ready to start on Envisioneer.

Thursday April 21-
PANCAKES

Friday April 22-
Good Friday

Rhino

By watching a tutorial on youtube, we were able to do some modeling on Rhinocerus and create some 3D shapes.

Graphics Communication

Engineering Design Process

CAD Software:

Common basic features:

¡Commands to generate geometry

¡Functions for controlling views

¡Modifiers for changing drawing geometry

¡Annotation Commands for adding text, dimensions, and notes

¡Others

Terminology

 ¡CAD: Computer Aided Design

¡CADD: Computer Aided Design & Drafting

¡CAM: Computer Aided Manufacturing

¡CIM: Computer Integrated Manufacturing

¡CAE: Computer Assisted Engineering

¡CAPP: Computer-Aided Process Planning

¡MRP: Material Requirement Planning

¡EDM: Enterprise Document/Data Management

¡CAE: Computer Assisted Engineering

¡Blue Print Reading: Interpreting drawings made by others

Week 8

Monday April 11-
Today we had a lesson on Graphics communication and graphic design. Then we posted the notes onto our blog.

Tuesday April 12-
Today we learned how to use the program Envisioneer to start to build a house. This is part of our architecture unit.

Wednesday April 13-
Today we watched a tutorial on how to use Rhinoceros and started to learn the basics of the program.

Thursday April 14-
Today we finished doing a few small assignments on Rhino and then started to do our research for an upcoming project where we will design a full brochure for a house we design on AutoCad and Envisioneer.

Friday April 15-
Today we started to design a floorplan for our houses by doing a bubble diagram to deside how we want the rooms to be set up.

Architectural Styles

Architectural Styles in Canada

The architecture of Canada is, with the exception of that of Canadian First Nations, closely linked to the techniques and styles developed in Canada, Europe and the United States. However, design has long needed to be adapted to Canada's climate and geography, and at times has also reflected the uniqueness of Canadian culture. In the period after the First World War, Canadian nationalism led to attempts to proclaim a unique Canadian architecture, distinct from that of Britain and the United States. One style promoted as distinctly Canadian was the Château Style, also known as Railway Gothic. This style first appeared in the late nineteenth century with grandiose railway hotels such as the Château Frontenac and Banff Springs Hotel. It was a mix of Victorian Gothic Revival with castles of the Loire Valley in France. The railways were seen as symbols of Canada, and the mix of French and English ideas was also considered distinctly Canadian.

Architectural Styles in America

Exterior styles and related building forms and floor plans are in part a product of cultural tastes and values that reflect a particular place, time, and population.Postmodern architecture is generally characterized by an unrelated and exaggerated use of historical styles, or imitatated reproductions of older buildings. The current rise of postmodern historicism has coincided with a revived interest in traditional town planning practices known as "neotraditional" development, or more generally, the New Urbanism. A return to city centers in high-rise, mixed-used lofts and condos is now occuring, and hundreds of neotraditional neighborhoods are under construction or are already completed, with designs that variously emphasize walking, mass transit, mixed uses, community livability, public space, and -- hopefully -- affordability.

North American Influence

In the United States, 'Victorian' architecture generally describes styles that were most popular between 1860 and 1900. A list of these styles most commonly includes: Second Empire (1855–85), Stick-Eastlake (1860–ca. 1890), Queen Anne (1880–1910), Richardsonian Romanesque (1880–1900), and Shingle (1880–1900). As in the United Kingdom, examples of Gothic Revival and Italianate continued to be constructed during this period, and are therefore sometimes called Victorian. Some historians classify the later years of Gothic Revival as a destinctive Victorian style named High Victorian Gothic. The Painted Ladies are an example of Victorian architecture found in San Francisco, CA. (Picture on right).

Neoclassical architecture was an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century, manifested both in its details as a reaction against the Rococo style of naturalistic ornament, and in its architectural formulas as an outgrowth of some classicizing features of Late Baroque. In its purest form it is a style principally derived from the architecture of Classical Greece and the architecture of Italian Andrea Palladio. In form, Neoclassical architecture emphasizes the wall rather than chiaroscuro and maintains separate identities to each of its parts.An instance of this neoclassic revival style is reflected by the Lillian Massey Building in Toronto, Canada. The building resides in the Bay Street Corridor neighborhood and has stood the test of time since 1913, when it first opened as the University of Toronto's Faculty of Household Science.

The Keating Millennium Centre at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada, completed in 2001 (Picture top right).

Week 7

Monday April 4-
Today I wrote the unit test that I missed on friday. Then continued to work on my logo.

Tuesday April 5-
Today we watched a movie about the engineering of the Twin Towers and the attack while our blogs were marked. Then we had a assembly in the caf.

Wednesday April 6-
Today we finished watching the Twin Towers movie and then updated our blogs.

Thursday April 7-
Today we did an assignment on Architectural Styles of Canada and America. We had to put information about them onto our blog and their influences.

Friday April 8-
P.A. Day

Week 6

Monday March 28-
Today we did Chapter 5 quizzes on Mechanical CAD, then we had a MADD presentation in the caf.

Tuesday March 29-
Today we posted the quizzes onto our blog and then had a lesson on dimensioning to wrap up this unit on AutoCad.

Wednesday March 30-
Today we started a new unit and started to design a logo to put on all of our work.

Thursday March 31-
Absent

Friday April 1-
Absent

Chapter 5: Mechanical CAD

Week 5

Monday March 21-
Today we played Cargo Bridge

Tuesday March 22-
Today we started an assignment on AutoCad. A drawing called Popstick

Wednesday March 23-
Snow Day

Thursday March 24-
Today we continued to work on Popstick for the whole period.

Friday March 25-
Today I finished my Popstick assignment in final and learned how to put it onto a template for evaluation. Then I posted it onto my blog.

Cargo Bridge

Score 2204

1.6

1.9

1.3

Week 4

Monday March 8-
Today we we did the second part of our test. When I was done, I finished another CAD drawing and posted it onto my blog.

Tuesday March 9-
Today we started free hand sketching of buildings and other 3D objects. We also practiced orthographic drawings by showing 3 views of the buildings.

Wednesday March 10-
Today we did a practice booklet on sketching and finding hidden lines, then we went to the caf for a liturgy.

Thursday March 11-
Today we updated our blogs and posted previous assignments, I also added dimensions to some of my drawings and posted them.

Friday March 12-
Absent

2.7 -Geneva Cam

With this excersise I learned how to use the polar array command and how to add dimensions to my drawings.

CAD- Terms and Concepts

1. A     1. D     11. B    21. D    31. C
2. A     2. C     12. A    22. A    32. A
3. D     3. D     13. B    23. A    33. B
4. A     4. B     14. D    24. D    34. A
5. B     5. B     15. D    25. B    35. C
6. C     6. A     16. B    26. C    36. D
7. A     7. D     17. C    27. B   
8. D     8. A     18. C    28. D
9. C     9. A     19. A    29. D
          10. C     20.A    30. A
  

Single Point Perspective

Perspective drawing is a good style to use when drawing in 3D. There are different styles including single point and two point perspective. The basic example below shows how to construct a simple single point perspective drawing of a cube. Using the same skills more complex drawings/designs can be drawn, after a little practice.

http://www.technologystudent.com/designpro/perspec1.htm

Two Point Perspective

Perspective is a realistic way of drawing objects in 3D. We have already looked at single point perspective, two point perspective using two vanishing points and when an object is drawn in this way it is even more realistic than if it were to be drawn with a single vanishing point.

http://www.technologystudent.com/designpro/twopers1.htm/

Oblique Projection
Oblique projection is a method of drawing objects in 3 dimensions. It is quite a simple techniquecompared to isometric or even perspective drawing. However, to draw accurately in oblique projection traditional drawing equipment is needed (see diagram below).

http://www.technologystudent.com/despro2/obli1.htm

Week 3

Monday February 28-
Today we learned about Single point, two point, and three point drawings. We took notes on them and posted them onto our blog. I used the extra time we had to post previous assignments onto my blog and add descriptions.

Tuesday March 1-
Today we started another CADPROblem, 2.7. In the process of learning the polar and object snap tools.

Wednesday March 2-
Today we answered more questions on AutoCad and did more practice quizzes to study for our test tomorrow.

Thursday March 3-
Today we did our test on the computer and emailed it to Mr.D. Then we continued to work on our drawings on AutoCad.

Friday March 4-
Today I finished drawing 2.7 and learned how to use the polar array command on AutoCad.

 

Notes and Leaders

Dimensioning Holes and Round Features

Dimensioning Basics

Week 2

Monday February 21-
Family Day, no school

Tuesday February 22-
We started a tutorial on moodle that will help us learn how to make layers and 3D objects on Autocad.

Wednesday February 23-
Continued working on the Autocad tutorial, finished the front view and worked on the side view.

Thursday February 24-
Finished the Autocad tutorial, all three views, and posted them onto our blog.Learned the basics of the tool object snap.

Friday February 25-
Today we did quizzes online to learn about Mechanical Dimensioning and then we posted them onto our blog for study notes later on.

Alphabet of Lines