Week 1:   In this section, for every week, there will be a listing of what is due for that week.  You will practice the assignments listed in this section to prepare for the In Class Evaluation (ICE) where you demonstrate the skills that you have learned.  ICE's are usually on Tuesdays.  See the syllabus for assessment details. Design Assignments due this week: For next Tuesday come to class with sketched floor plans of a Dream House that you would like to design.  You will be modeling this project both in AutoCAD and Revit later in the quarter but for this assignment produce a paper and pencil sketched drawing of both the first and second floor of a house (refer to the Week 2 section below for more information). In this section there will be additional information on what should be read, practiced and produced before coming to class for the week.  Plus it may contain announcements relevant for that week's class. Announcements: You should have bought the following book from the Wildcat Shop, Introducing Autodesk Revit Architecture 2012, by Patrick Davis.  If you bought the 2011 version instead please return it to the bookstore and exchange it for the 2012 version. Read and practice ahead: See Week 2 for details on what should be read and practiced for Week 2.

Class exercises and assignment details:

See Week 2 for details on your Sketched Floor Plans assignment.
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Class exercises and assignment details:

Sketched Floor Plans Assignment:
Your sketched floor plan will be graded on the following criteria, Click here for your ICE grading criteria.  Download and print out the grading criteria before class on Tuesday, sign your name, fill in the date, staple it to your assignment and hand in all of the related documents at the instructor's desk.

For this and all assignments your work has to be original and unique or you will get no points!! 

For your sketched floor plans, put some thought into this project. 

• Before starting, spend some quality time looking at and studying homes and home designs and consider what features you both like and dislike about them both inside and out.  Resources for this may include: 
• websites, magazines, videos and television programs
• new or existing homes being built in your area that you can visit
• Ideas from your family's home or homes of friends and relatives
• Consider the following when laying out your floor plans for your Dream House:
• Bathroom locations should be such so that the occupants of the room will not be visible in an adjacent room when the bathroom door is open.  Perhaps locate the bathroom in a hallway.
• The kitchen should be close to the front door and entry from the garage.  The kitchen is considered a destination or departure point when entering or leaving the house.
• Bedrooms are peripheral elements in quiet areas of the house away from busy rooms
• Consider a mudroom adjacent to the front door, backdoor or garage.  A mudroom serves as a transitional room to put on or remove coats and shoes.  It also serves as a stop for outside air entering the house when the exterior door is opened.
• Think about the flow of foot traffic in the house: Does it make sense?  Do you have to go through a room to get to another room? and similar thoughts. 
• You will refer to these sketches in a few weeks and will use them to generate your computer models in both AutoCAD and Revit. 
• Try not to make it too big, it may end up costing you more time than is needed later in the quarter.

• ANSI A size sheets (8-1/2" by 11") one sheet per floor, landscape orientation
• Draw the first floor first
• Draw the second floor so that it is on top and lined up with the first floor when the sheets are together
• Area for stairs on both sheets
• No scaling
• No wall thickness necessary
• use a single line to denote interior and exterior walls
• Label all rooms with room names
• At least 8 rooms per floor (not including closets)
• 3 bedrooms at least
• Include all rooms that would be appropriate for a house of this size including a mechanical (utility) room, laundry room(s), entry way or mudroom(s) and office
• Proportioned rooms
• Example, don't make a bedroom 3 times the size of the living room, make the bedroom big enough for a bed and the typical furniture
• Front and back doors at least
• Windows
• Include a garage, attached or detached (not considered a room)
• Neat, thoughtful design, not rushed
• The erasing and moving of walls and similar features is part of the iterative process and is expected


Items that can only appear once or are required to appear only once will be given credit on both floors
Extras may include landscaping, decks, furniture, fixtures, etc...
 

Class exercise:
Click on the following link and extract this file for the AutoCAD files that will be used as a demonstration in class on Tuesday.

Instructional Videos:
Review the instructional videos below on how to set up your new drawing template and how to create your first drawing of the Concrete Masonry Unit (CMU).  Please be aware of the following:

• To listen to the videos in the lab you will need headphones (unless you have a portable appliance that is capable of connecting to the internet).  The folks that run the computers in the lab have disabled the audio ports on the front of the computers (so you won't be tempted by rock and roll) so you'll have to use the ports in the back (a green port is typical for audio output).  To minimize cable length, route your headphone cables through the space between the tables. 
• The audio portion of some of the videos begins to lag toward the end of the video.

This video provides instruction on changing some of the AutoCAD settings for the CAD lab computers.

This video provides instruction in opening AutoCAD and some basics of Paper and Model Space.

This video provides instruction in the opening and modifying an AutoCAD template file.

This video provides instruction in modifying our Paper Space portion of the template file in AutoCAD.

This video provides instruction in modifying our Title Block in AutoCAD.

This video provides instruction in modifying our Title Block in AutoCAD.

This video provides instruction in modifying our Title Block for an "A" sized paper in AutoCAD.

This video provides instruction in modifying our Title Block for an "A" sized paper in AutoCAD.

This video provides instruction in finishing our Title Block for an "A" sized paper in AutoCAD.

This video provides instruction in the creation of a simple drafting object in AutoCAD.

This video provides instruction in the creation of a simple drafting object in AutoCAD.

This video provides continuing instruction in the creation of a simple drafting object and updating the title block in AutoCAD.

This video provides continuing instruction in the creation of a simple drafting object, updating the title block and printing in AutoCAD.

Out of class exercises:
Practice and produce the following exercises on your new template file with the appropriate title block updates as described in class and on the videos above.  One of these exercises will be due at the time of the ICE at the beginning of class on Tuesday in Week 3.  Instructional videos are available for the exercises below except for the CMU and the Elevation (both done in class) and the Car which, if you have gotten that far, you should already know how to do.

Class exercises and assignment details:

In Class Evaluation (4 items) Click here for your Week 3 ICE Grading Criteria.  You will print out and hand in the 4 items listed below stapled to your ICE Grading Criteria.  Print out your Wall Elevation exercise before class.  You will be graded on the following:

1. Produce the exercise from the handout at the beginning of class.
• This exercise will be similar to the exercises from Week 2 and you will have 30 minutes to complete it. 
• All elements
• Lines connect, horizontal and vertical
• A sized sheet, landscape orientation, appropriate scale, centered
• Dimensions, scaled, orderly, larger dimensions on the outside
• Fill in dimensions as shown
• Title block updates including, sheet names, date, and scale 
2. Hand in one of the exercises from Week 2 as instructed during the evaluation.
• All elements 
• Lines connect, horizontal and vertical
• A sized sheet, landscape orientation, appropriate scale, centered
• Dimensions, scaled, orderly, larger dimensions on the outside
• Title block updates including, sheet names, date, and scale
3. Hand in the Wall Elevation Assignment per the instructions below:
• Choose a wall and draft an elevation of this wall using your new template file, re-save your template using an appropriate name.
• Any wall type, inside or out, you may draft a wall from your sketched floor plan. 
• Measure this wall using techniques discussed in class
• Draft in Model Space, print in Paper Space
• Must contain at least 10 elements (elements are considered some sort of enclosed geometry such as rectangles, circles or ellipses).
• Dimension in a manner similar to the exercise in Week 2
• Orderly and easy to read
• Dimensions not covering objects or other dimension lines (like the 2" dimension for the door trim)
• include both horizontal and vertical location dimensions
• Measure from walls for horizontal window and door locations 
• Larger dimensions on the outside, shorter dimensions on the inside
• Use appropriate scale so it fits on your A sized template file in Paper Space.
• Title block updates.
4. Demonstrate a proper template file.
• Title block and border lines connect
• Borders center on page
• Proper line and text colors
• Text sizes, CAPITAL lettering, 
• Orderly and aligned text
• Centered text for company name and project name
• Hidden viewport when printing

• Each exterior side has to be in whole foot units (no inches or fractions). 
• Each interior wall dimension has to be in whole foot and inch units (no fractions).
• Call out only once an exterior wall dimension, label this "typical" if you want (fractions allowed).
• Call out only once an interior wall dimension, label this "typical" if you want (fractions allowed).

Instructional Videos:
Review the instructional videos below on how to use the Design Center and to insert and modify the Dynamic Block Door. 


 
 
 
 
 

Class exercises and assignment details:

In Class Evaluation (5 items) Click here for your Week 4 ICE Grading Criteria. You will print out and hand in the 5 items listed below stapled to your ICE Grading Criteria.  Print out your Floor Plans before class.  You will be graded on the following:

1. Produce the exercise from the hand out at the beginning of class.  This will be a small floor plan of an apartment, you will have 30 minutes to complete it. 
2. Hand in one of the exercises from Week 3 as instructed during the evaluation. 
3. Hand in your Dream House Floor Plan Assignment per the instructions below.  2 sheets plus your hand sketched floor plans from Weeks 1 and 2 (3 items total) (40 points total (20 points per sheet)):
• Using your sketched drawing as a reference from Weeks 1 and 2 draft both your first and second floor plans, both the hand sketched and CAD plans must be similar.
• One floor per sheet, 2 sheets total.
• Sheets are aligned from 1st floor to 2nd floor
• Must contain the rooms and elements from your sketched floor plan although some minor variations are permitted
• At least 8 rooms per floor 
• 3 bedrooms at least
• Front and back doors at least
• Garage with doors openings
• Stairs similar to the example in Week 3, provide a landing on the top and bottom
• Insert blocks
• 7 blocks made in Weeks 2 and 3: the king bed, the 2 sinks, washer, dryer and the couches (3)
• Various blocks from the Design Center drawing, including the dynamic block for the doors, 10 minimum, repeated items counted once.
• Dynamic block door must have the wall thickness settings changed (refer to the videos).
• Windows per the videos.
• Dimension interior and exterior wall locations only, in a manner similar to the floor plan example in the Week 3 section above (refer to the videos).
• Overall house dimensions
• Whole foot units, no inches or fractions
• Orderly and easy to read, not covering objects or other dimension lines
• Longer dimensions on the outside, shorter dimensions on the inside
• Dimensions for the interior walls from a common exterior outside wall edge as shown.
• Be consistent regarding which interior wall edge used, either the 1st or 2nd wall
• Whole foot and inch units (no fractions (exceptions for the stairs and instances involving wall thickness issues)).
• Longer dimensions on the outside, shorter dimensions on the inside
• Dimension once each of the 2 wall thicknesses, interior and exterior (similar to the example in the Week 3 section above)
• Appropriate dimension scaling
• Room labels for each room
• Use appropriate sheet scale in the viewport so it fits on your A sized template file in Paper Space.
• Appropriate title block updates, center your drawing 
• Extra credit for extra details (extra rooms, counter tops, extra blocks, landscaping, etc...) 

Download, from the publishers of the Revit textbook, various files related to the book.  For Thursday's class download a file in the Chapter 2 Resource File section by clicking on the HTTP link and downloading the "029961c02_dataset.zip" file.  Once downloaded, unzip this file into a folder on your flash drive or network save location.  From this folder open the file named "Dataset_02_03.rvt" .  This Revit file is the model that you see on the cover of the book and is referenced various times throughout the book.  We will be taking a tour of this model in class on Thursday. 

Start on your Dream House floor plan using Revit by laying out the walls from your AutoCAD floor plan or your hand sketched plan.  A portion of your Revit floor plan will evaluated next Tuesday for your ICE. 

• Before you start your Dream House design, like you did in Week 2, spend some quality time looking at and studying homes and home designs and consider what features you both like and dislike about them both inside and out.  Review the guidelines from Week 2.

Instructional Images:
Information on some basic residential building design elements are shown in the images below.  The images for this week show various elements that go into a simple foundation and first floor wall construction.

The image below shows the site work prior to the setting up of the forms for a concrete foundation footing and stem wall.  These foundation elements will be attached to the existing house providing a bedroom addition.

The forms as they were being set up for the concrete.  This will be a "monolithic pour" pouring concrete for both the footing and stem wall at the same time.

The completed forms on the front of the house as the concrete was being poured.

The new footing and stem wall foundation.  Notice the embedded anchor bolts sticking out. 

Two days later, the new sub-floor is constructed on top of the new stem wall foundation.  On top of the stem wall is a 2x6 treated sill plate, bolted down with the embedded anchor bolts.  The sill plate serves as a interface between the wooden sections of the exterior wall and the concrete foundation.  The sill plate, without treatment, would be subjected to decomposition over time.  The joist hangers attach to this sill plate and joists attach to the inside of the hangers.  The joists serve as horizontal structure for the sub-floor. 

The sub-floor made of 7 layered plywood at 1-1/4" thick is glued and nailed to the joists.  The sill plate and floor are coplanar to the exterior surface of the stem wall.  The plywood has holes cut into it to accommodate the nuts, washers and anchor bolts on the sill plate. 

The image below shows the completed sub-floor and is ready for the exterior walls.  It is the top surface of the sub-floor that serves as the first floor plane.  When modeling, the first floor is extruded below this plane and the first floor walls are extruded above it.

A close-up of the previous image where the new addition meets the existing house and shows how it is constructed.  Notice how the sheathing and siding cover the edge of the sub-floor and extends about 2 inches below the top of the stem wall foundation.  This allows water to shed off the siding and onto the ground (and not into the house).  When modeling walls the "Core Face: Exterior" plane is coplanar to the stem wall, sill plate and edge of the sub-floor.  The "Finish Face: Exterior" plane is the furthest extend of the wall and includes the 1/2" sheathing (1/2" plywood or OSB) and 5/8" T-111 siding. 

An image of the completed floor from the crawl space below and includes insulation and ductwork.  This image faces the stem wall shown in the image above. 

The interior of this space after interior walls, roof and some plumbing have been installed, facing the same direction as the image above.  It shows interior walls (2x4 construction, 3-1/2" wide) and exterior walls with sheathing (2x6 construction, 5-1/2" wide).  The sheathing (1/2" plywood or OSB) is on the outside of the "Core Face: Exterior" plane and before the "Finish Face: Exterior" plane so it is on the outside of the core and exterior of the sub-floor, sill plate and stem wall plane.  To finish the exterior of the exterior walls you would add a layer for the dimensionless wind barrier on the outside of the sheathing and then siding.  On the inside of the core you would add the structure (2x6 5-1/2" wide).  On the interior of the exterior wall you would add a finish element 1/2" drywall.  Occupying the same space as the structure of the wall (the 2x6) would be the insulation.  The interior wall sandwich would be 1/2" drywall on either side of the core structure (2x4, 3-1/2" wide) making the wall 4-1/2" thick.

Instructional Videos:
Review the instructional videos below on getting started in Revit Architecture, how to create a roof and how to Define a Wall Structure or how to modify a wall.

Getting started in Revit

Getting started in Revit, copying walls.

Getting started in Revit, laying out and dimensioning exterior walls.

Getting started in Revit, laying out and more on dimensioning exterior walls.

Getting started in Revit, laying out and dimensioning your interior walls.

Getting started in Revit, more on laying out and dimensioning your interior walls.

Getting started in Revit, more on laying out and dimensioning your interior walls plus trim tools.

Getting started in Revit, laying out a floor with some editing and viewing functions.

Getting started in Revit, installing doors and components plus the camera view.

 

Creating a roof in Revit

How to Define a Wall Structure or how to modify a wall



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Class exercises and assignment details:

In Class Evaluation (2 items) Click here for your Week 5 ICE Grading Criteria. You will produce and transfer to me, at the instructor's computer, the 2 items listed below, consisting of 4 assignments, and hand in your signed and dated ICE Grading Criteria. 

1. Produce the exercise from the hand out at the beginning of class.  This will be a simple apartment design similar to last week's ICE.  You will have about 45 minutes to complete it.  You will be graded in a similar manner as described for your Dream House evaluation below.
2. Hand in your Dream House model file, you will be graded in 3 parts, the first on your custom wall, the second on Defining Wall Structure and the third on the progress on your Dream House design
• Produce the 3 wall types (named as Defining Wall Structure in the text book), one as described in the textbook and the two others as demonstrated in the video in the Week 4 section above. 
• The requirements for your custom wall are iterated in the videos in the Week 4 section above
• Name these as described in the book and in class
• Place these 3 walls in front of the north elevation symbol on the north side of your home, parallel to the north wall on your house. 
• Make each wall 16 feet long and 6' 6" apart from each other and place permanent dimensions on them. 
• Lock these dimensions
• "Align" the edges of the walls to each other and lock this constraint.
(You will know that you have done the above steps correctly if all three walls move as one unit without any walls being left behind, stretching or the dimensions changing.)
• Your Dream House design in Revit with the following elements:
• 3 levels, named (in CAPITALS) something similar to (depending on your design) FIRST FLOOR, SECOND FLOOR and ROOF
• Level line and target are aligned together and separated by whole or half foot increments
• Exterior walls
• Connected and oriented properly
• From the FIRST FLOOR to the ROOF level 
• Permanent dimensions in whole or half foot increments
• FIRST FLOOR Interior walls
• Connected, extended and trimmed
• From the FIRST FLOOR level to the SECOND FLOOR level
• Permanent dimensions in whole foot and inch increments
• Front door and windows of your choice, 2 different window types with a total of 10 elements (read and practice from the book for this function).
• First floor, a modified 6" concrete slab and the second floor of your choice (read and practice from the book for this function)
• Add "Components" like beds and appliances to help size your rooms and for extra credit.

Review the instructional videos below on various topics as labeled.

Modeling a Basement with a Site Toposurface and Building Pad








 

Creating a Room Label

Modifying a Floor to Add a Ceiling

Adding Door Like Room Openings

Adding a Front Door with Sidelights and Equality dimension constraints

Adding Spiral Stairs

Adding Linear Stairs, Floor Cuts and Railings

Storefront Curtain Walls with Modifications






 
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Class exercises and assignment details:

Your first examination will be on Tuesday.  To prepare for the written portion of the exam you need to be certain that you have read and practiced all of your reading assignments, Instructional Videos and have studied your notes taken in class. 

For the design portion of the exam you will be modeling a 3 story residence in Revit.  The residence model will incorporate many of the design elements that have been demonstrated in class and in Instructional Videos and include the elements listed below.  You may create a template file of these elements below and use it for the exam.  You have the time, so carefully plan out your design:

Model a skinny rectangular shaped residential home, of your design, using the following guidelines:

1. Scale, make each view scaled at 1/8”=1’-0” if it is not already set at that.
2. Levels, Create and or rename 4 levels: BASEMENT, FIRST FLOOR, SECOND FLOOR, ROOF.
• BASEMENT -9’ 4”, FIRST FLOOR 0’ 0”, SECOND FLOOR, ROOF
• Create a floor plan for the BASEMENT and ROOF levels
• Site, basement slab and walls as a class exercise, east-west walls at 60 some feet, north south walls at about 20 feet, orient the house so a short end is north (top)
3. Exterior Walls (use your custom wall from Week 4) from the FIRST FLOOR level to the ROOF level
• Location Line on the Core Face Exterior
• The front door is on the east or west wall, back door location of your choice.
• Permanent dimensions for the wall lengths, exterior edge to exterior edge.
4. Interior Walls, Interior walls shall be “Interior - 4-1/2" DW-WoodStud-DW” created in Week 4
• Permanent dimensions in whole foot or inch increments from common exterior wall edge to centerline of interior wall, first floor only, no need to dimension closet walls, no dimensions necessary on the second floor.
• Create and label in CAPITALS the following rooms on the first floor: Living Room, Bedroom 1, Bedroom 2, Office, Laundry Room, Utility Room (see the video in the Week 5 section above)
• Create and label in CAPITALS the following rooms on the second floor: Kitchen, Dining Room, Living Room, Master Bed, Master Bath, Bathroom
5. Floors, both floors: “Wood Joist 10” (custom covering of your choice) - DW” (drywall on the second floor is the ceiling for the first floor, 5/8” (see the video in the Week 5 section above)), properly name this type, span direction oriented east and west.
6. Stairs, style and location your choice, at least 48” wide, must have a mid-span landing unless spiral stairs, cutout the second floor (see the videos in the Week 5 section above).
7. Doors, Insert the following doors, no tags:
• Front Door, make a cutout on the exterior wall for the door, Double Glass door of your choice, 72” x 84”, Permanent Dimensions with Equality Constraints from the exterior walls, opens in, Sidelights (a Window in the door family) on either side of the door at the appropriate height (see the video in the Week 5 section above)
• Back door “Single-Decorative” 36” x 84”, Permanent Dimensions in whole foot and inch units
• Interior doors “Single Flush” 28” x 80”, opens into rooms, swings to adjacent interior wall, no dimensions. 
• “Opening Cased” or “Opening Elliptical” as a Component for some room access in lieu of doors (see the video in the Week 5 section above). 
8. Windows, Insert the following: each room gets at least one window, corner rooms get at least 2 windows except for bathrooms which get only one window, make the distribution of windows on your house symmetric and attractive, no tags, no dimensions
• Choose from 3 different families, with trim (not the default fixed window), consistent head height for each window type (not the default settings) on each floor, excepting the bathroom windows
• Bathroom window “Slider with Trim” 36” x 24”, sill height at 5’ 0”
9. Roof, Main roof 5”/12” roof, 20  inch overhang, type is “Basic Roof Wood Rafter 8” Asphalt Shingle Insulated”, make at least one of the north or south walls of the house a gabled end, “Attach Top/Base” on this end (see the video in the Week 5 section above).
• Extra Roofs, Insert an extruded sketched roof, shape of your choice, same type as above, in front of both exterior doors
10. Curtain wall, whole foot units, location and height of your choice, base offset at least 6”, mullions at a distance other than the default settings for spacing, OK to span the first and second floors (see the video in the Week 5 section above)
11. Create 2 building sections, one north south orientation, one east west orientation, create a 3D view, Create at least one camera view of significance and rename this view in CAPITALS with the room name in it.
12. Components, furniture, appliances, fixtures, etc… at least 20 non unique.

• Fix all errors
• No tags except for room tags
• Design integrity (examples, the stairs should not have a ceiling reveal in a critical room, windows should not cut into floors and ceilings, etc…)
• Extra credit for fixtures, furniture, closets and closet doors, etc…
• Extra credit for a good layout and design (considering traffic flow, room sizes and locations etc…)
• Extra credit of extra items and details beyond what is required as described above

One of the best ways Revit Architecture allows you to visualize your project is to allow you to walk through it.  While walking through it, you can look up, down and around focusing on various details as you pass.  View and practice the videos below.  A Walk Through video will be a requirement for your Dream House presentations.

Revit Walk Through






 

Another way Revit Architecture allows you to visualize your project is through image renderings of certain Camera views in your project.  View and practice the videos below.  Some image Renderings will be a requirement for your Dream House presentations.

Revit Image Rendering of a Camera view











 

There was a request, from one of my students, for me to demonstrate the installation of columns in Revit Architecture.  The videos below help explain the steps involved in installing architectural columns.

Installing a Revit architectural column




 
 
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Class work and assignment details: Click here for your Week 7 ICE Grading Criteria, available before class on Thursday.  You will be evaluated on 4 items this week:

• Commercial Project proposal
• Dream House project presentation evaluated by your peers
• Dream House project presentation evaluated by me
• Dream House project model evaluated by me

• Type of project
• Examples include: restaurants, schools, auto show rooms, hotels, theaters, malls, grocery stores, coffee shops, office buildings, restaurants, factories etc... essentially any building engaged in commerce that may be open to the public, see the last few class websites to get some additional ideas.
• Describe the project, traffic flow, customer areas, production areas, offices
• How large do you anticipate the project to be (described as rooms, floors, square feet, etc...)
• What sort of components or features do you anticipate placing in your project.

• Peer Evaluation

• Introduction, provide your name, major and class position (senior, junior, etc...)
• Introduction to your project, type of house, location, what it will be built out of
• Tour, 3D view around the house, entry into the house, show floor plans and traffic flow from front door or entry or stairs, talk about the rooms
• Move on through the model and demonstrate any features that you think are significant in your home using the usual views (plans, elevations, sections) plus: 
• Camera views of something significant (8 minimum)
• Adjust view depth, range and settings to get a decent view
• Image renderings of the inside and outside of the house (4 minimum)
• Adjust view depth, range and settings to get a decent image
• Walk Through video (1 minute)
• Adjust view range, height and settings to get a decent video
• Presentation at 5 to 6 minutes in length

• Site Plan toposurface surface, contours, building pad, subregion, property line (within the contours and enclosed geometry), contour elevation labels, landscaping
• Various levels (at least 3), named (in CAPITALS)
• Level line and target are aligned together, whole or half foot increments
• Floor plans are for each level
• Exterior walls, custom wall, connected and oriented properly, from your first floor to your roof level
• Permanent dimensions, whole or half foot increments, base line from exterior wall edges to each exterior wall edge
• First floor Interior walls, custom, connected from your first floor level to your second floor level, connected to bottom of floor above (second floor walls in a similar manner)
• Permanent dimensions in whole foot or inch increments, from the exterior wall edge, to a consistent element of the interior walls 
• Room labels with consecutive numbers CAPITALS 
• Floors, custom coverings (carpet, vinyl, wood), at least 3, cut out exterior walls
• Ceilings of your choice, if not part of the floor above
• Front door, Interior doors of your choice, less than 36" wide, opens correctly
• Windows, 3 different window types, one window per room per wall, consistent head height
• Stairs, at least 1 set, greater than 36” wide, no errors, cut out floor above
• Roof, custom, Foot Print, overhang, Roof by Extrusion (like over a door)
• Components like furniture, fixtures, equipment to fill the house, complete each room 
• Extras for extra details and features beyond what is listed above, extras must fit the model and enhance the design.

• Fix all errors (1 point each)
• No tags except for room tags (1 point each)

Class exercises and assignment details:

In Class Evaluation (2 items) Click here for your Week 8 ICE grading criteria.  You will create, from your existing embedded Walk Through video, an avi file of your Dream House to be handed in at the instructor's computer.  Show progress on your Commercial Project.  Hand in these 2 items in one folder with your name in it at the instructor's computer.  Print out, sign and hand in your ICE Grading Criteria.

1. A video of your Walk Through of your Dream House model.
• Export the video external to the model, *.avi format, "Cinepak codec by Radius" for the format, keep it about a minute in length.
• Inclusive (varioius rooms) and complete (show most of the rooms on a floor)
• Path from the outside through the inside and back out again
• Realistic view, decent perspective (not narrow or too wide)
• A slower pace than the default settings, a walking pace
• Don’t go through walls
• Extra credit for going up or down floors and having the camera look up, down and around like the Instructional Videos demonstrate
• This may take a while so plan on working on other homework while it is compiling
2. Progress on your Commercial Project.
• Show at least exterior walls and and custom levels
• Provide elements that give a general impression of the size and shape of your project such as external and internal walls or a site plan.
• Elements added during the evaluation

Create a customized titleblock template including a logo, this exercise will be evaluated in Week 9

• Modify an existing titleblock template file downloaded from the Sybex website as demonstrated in the videos below.
• Download and resave the "Titleblock SP.rfa" file and rename it to a name of your choosing in a folder of your choosing (perhaps something similar to "Titleblock-Jones-Construction.rfa").
• Make modifications as demonstrated in the videos below
• Also make modifications to the portion of the title block shown below. 
• The lettering in this portion of the Titleblock are both Text and Labels both at 3/32". 
• Dimensions shown are for your reference and are the spacing between the lines shown.  Provide this spacing but do not include these dimensions on your Titleblock. 

• Logo

• Design a logo for your titleblock in a style of your choosing as instructed in the videos below.
• Include a company name, address, phone number and website address below, nearby or included in your logo.
• Choose a name and style that fits your career ambitions or personality.  You may design something in Revit, AutoCAD or another image program.  Use the following criteria: 

• Your logo must be unique
• An image or AutoCAD file
• Inserted where the Revit logo is on the titleblock template
• stretch out the space on the titleblock for your logo if necessary (make it fit the space and look neat)
• Does not have to look 3D or in color (they usually are not in color on construction drawings) 
• IInclude some graphical styling including various line sizes, fonts, hatching and other techniques 
• extra credit for extra design styling
Below is my logo and would represent a design that meets the criteria described above.

Also consider some designs that can be found on the web.  Below are some images of some AutoCAD files of logos from some companies that I have worked with in the past.  The logos had been produced in AutoCAD and print in black, white and gray shading.  The colors drive line thicknesses or gray shading.  These logos are included on construction drawings.

Instructional Videos:

Below are a series of videos showing you how to modfiy an existing titleblock template and to modify it so it can be customized for your own needs.  The videos start in Revit Architecture with a titleblock Family then procedes to 4 videos on creating a logo in AutoCAD and inserting that into your customized Revit titleblock template.  The last two videos discusses some methods on creating 3D looking logos in Revit by using simple Revit tools and then inserting those images files of your logo into your Revit titleblock template. 

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