WEEK SEVEN: PROCESS POST - AUTOCAD 3D OUTCOME PROCESS

In my pre-project outline, I planned to commence the design and construction of my 3-dimensional model, therefore I maximized this week which was a studio session for us to develop our project, I went to the workshop with a design, not really sure of the materials to use and how to go about the construction, however, I met with the technician in the workshop and he gave me an idea to draw the designs on CAD and a pulp board as the material for the design. In this blog, I will be showing how I used AUTOCAD to design the measurements of the model which would eventually be sent to the laser cutter to cut it out.

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Firstly, I began by opening the CAD and then opening a new page, before I started with these drawings, I searched for 'units' and then changed the unit that was set as default to my required unit which was centimetres. The scale that I chose for my 3D model was 1: 1000.

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After changing the units to centimetres, I then moved on to commence the drawings, I started by using the line tools and I drew the shape of my site which is in the bottom left of the image in Fig 2 using all the right dimensions and angles. Following the drawing of this square-like shape, I used the copy tool to make copies of this shape which I would cut out for the layering up the landscape of the model.

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In my site plan, there is a design of an amphitheater, and for this, I made layers which was why I made several copies in Fig 2. In Fig 3, I used the circle tool at the edge of the site where the amphitheater is located, the size of this circle keeps increasing per shape to create that form of stairs when layered on each other. After making the circles in all the required squares, I used the trim tool to cut out the unnecessary parts of the circles and the edges that were not needed in the square as seen in Fig 4.

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In Fig 5 above, I moved to the remaining three square-liked shapes to continue the cutting out of the landscape, I used the spline tool the draw the irregular shapes shown in the image above using different measurements as they would be layers

on one another to form stairs.

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After drawing the landscape stairs which would be just behind the building, I then started drawing out the garden and waterfall which is included in the garden. I did all of this in Fig 6. Fig 7 and Fig 8 using the spline tool.

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Eventually, I completed the drawing of what I needed for the landscape of the 3D model, therefore, I started to draw the buildings. I copied one of the layered landscapes and I used it as a guideline to draw my building inside, then I used the spline tool to draw the building as shown in Fig 9.

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Afterward, I removed the building from the landscape because I will not need it again for the building

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Then, I drew the inner courtyard with the same tool and with accurate measurements.

In this blog post, I have been able to show my understanding of using new software (AUTOCAD), and how I have used it to debelop my project in the aspect of develop3D model construction.

The following blog will be a continuation of this, showing the process of how I used these drawings and imported them to the laser cutting system, cutting and finally assembling everything together.