Architectural CAD
Syllabus
Week 1: Introduction to Architectural Computer-Aided Drafting
- Introduce yourself to your fellow classmates and establish your personal profile in the course.
- Adopt and agree to the course expectations and social contract.
- Successfully transfer skills from VHS Student Orientation to this course.
- Identify personal interest in, and motivation for, the study of CAD.
- Download, install, and run Autodesk Revit 2021
- Express your baseline understanding in a preliminary assessment.
Week 2: User Interface
- Navigate the user interface: View window, Project Browser, ribbon tools, Options Bar.
- Place, locate, and modify model elements
- Use dimensions to control model elements
- Open different views
- Change view displays
- Change view properties
- Access, load, and place a family from a library
- Change type properties of a family
- Create an in-place family
Week 3: Print Reading and Standards
- Describe drawing units and how they are measured in drawings
- Describe drawing scale and dimension styles
- Identify the different sheet sizes and how they should be named
- Describe title blocks and the contents that are typically included in them
- Explain why templates are used, and the settings that are preset within them
Week 4: Walls
- Describe how to use space planning to determine where to place walls in a building
- Describe load-bearing walls and partition walls
- Describe platform framing and balloon framing
- Identify the materials that are typically used to construct walls
- List the different types of occupancy
Week 5: Floor plan and ceilings
- Use a floor plan template
- Setup a project file
- Compare a typical residential wall to a typical commercial wall
- Create interior and exterior walls
Week 6: Doors
- Identify the elements that make up doors
- List the different door types
- List the requirements and building codes that should be used when designing a building with doors and windows
Week 7: Windows
- Identify the elements that make up doors
- List the different door types
- List the requirements and building codes that should be used when designing a building with doors and windows
Week 8: Foundation
- Identify the elements that make up foundations
- Explain what the frost line is.
- Describe how rebar is used in concrete
Week 9: Stairs
- Identify the elements of stairs and railings
- Describe the formulas for stair calculation
- List the different stair types
- List the requirements and building codes that should be used when building stairs and railings
Week 10: Roofs and Roof Types
- Describe the different materials used to build roofs
- List the materials and construction methods for building flat and sloping roofs
- Identify the different roof types
- Calculate the rise, run, and pitch of a sloped roof
Week 11: Supplementals Floor Plans
- Identify MEPs (Mechanical, Electric, Plumbing) Symbols used in architecture
- Describe the 3 phases to MEPs installation
- Identify common Code requirements for MEPs
Week 12: Interior Design
- Describe room relationships
- Explain the work triangle
- List the needs of a residential building
Week 13: Drawing Details and Annotations
- Identify/list components of a schedule
- Modify a room schedule
- Explain how a schedule is used in architecture
Week 14: Drawing Set - Section and Elevation
- Describe building sections and why they are used
- List the information provided by an exterior elevation
- Explain interior elevations and what they are used for
Week 15: Walkthrough and Rendering
- Create a walkthrough in a model
- Edit the camera and path
- Export the walkthrough to an animation file
- View the animation in a media player
- Prepare 3D models for rendering
- Assign rendering material properties to model objects