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Arch 410/510 - Cheng, Spring 1997

2D Summary and 3D Sample

Assignment Four

Toy Rendering by Daniel Bissell Objectives:

To optimize the appearance and utility of graphic data through Paperspace Layout tools.
To understand navigation and construction in 3D space.

Part I: Present Your 2D Work

Now's your chance to polish up the drawings from the last two assignments and present them in your portfolio format.

Create a template portfolio grid with text styles, margins, column spacing which you can use for future work OR
Use a standard layout which you have already developed

Plan how to use the standard layout to show your geometric pattern and your 2D drawing project:
What part of your drawings look the best? Can you create customize the layout to highlight the most important aspects of the subject as well as your technical virtuousity with AutoCad?

Use Paperspace to adjust view, scale and layer information. Explore how headline fonts, single line text, lineweight, whitespace and borders can explain your project.

Plot the drawings at a maximum 11 x 17 format.

Part II: Exploring 3D

Option A:

Take your project into 3D:

Start by making an abstract 3D diagram: place axes in space, locate major masses as blocks.
Gradually refine the model by substituting in new definitions of the blocks.

Option B: Your Favorite Toy Lego, Lincoln logs, Pick-up sticks, Slinky? Show us what you adored.

You can build it with surfaces by adapting the standard geometric forms OR with solids and Boolean operations.

Take a look at some Arch 202 work for inspiration.

Output for 3D:

PLOT with hidden lines or
RENDER to generate a bitmap, then use Photoshop to touch-up and print.

Hand-out: April 22
Hand-in DRAFT: Wed April 30 or Thurs May 1, 7 p.m. lab session.
Hand-in FINAL: Friday, May 9, 5 p.m. Hand-in all files to the Course Disk under Assignment 4, hard copy in Nancy Cheng's mailbox near the Dean's Office.

Hand-out:	April 22
Hand-in DRAFT:	Wed April 30 or Thurs May 1, 7 p.m. lab session.
Hand-in FINAL:	Friday, May 9, 5 p.m. Hand-in all files to the Course Disk under Assignment 4, hard copy in Nancy Cheng's mailbox near the Dean's Office.