Page 1 Introduction to AutoCAD 2012 Alf Yarwood Chapter 16 Exercise 1 1. Open AutoCAD 2012 with a double-click on its shortcut icon in the Windows desktop. 2. Open the template acadiso.dwt. 3. Construct the required building symbol drawings to a scale of 1:50. 4. Save each symbol as a block within the drawing. 5. Save the drawing to the file name blocks for all exercises.dwg and close the drawing. 6. Open another acadiso.dwt template. 7. Left-click the DesignCenter icon in the View/Palettes panel and select from its Folder List the drawing blocks for all exercises.dwg. 8. Left-click the cross to the left of the drawing name and left-click again on Blocks. The building symbols appear in the right-hand side of the DesignCenter palette. 9. Working to the scale 1:50, construct an outline of the required building plan using the Polyline tool set to a Width of 1. Make the outer walls from plines 5 units apart and the partitions from plines at 2 units apart. 10. Drag the necessary symbols from the DesignCenter into the drawing. 11. Because the symbols dragged into the drawing area are blocks they may need to be exploded (Explode tool from the Home/Modify panel) and some trimming and stretching may be necessary in order to clear unnecessary details or to change the scale of some symbols - e.g. windows. 12. When completed save your drawing to a memory stick with the file name 16_Exercise01.dwg. 13. Close the drawing window.
Page 2 Chapter 16 Exercise 2 1. Open AutoCAD 2012 with a double-click on its shortcut icon in the Windows desktop. 2. Open the template acadiso.dwt. 3. Following the same procedures as described for the drawing in answer to Exercise 1, construct the required drawing. The two floor plans below show one possible answer to the exercise. 4. Save your drawing to a memory stick with the file name 16_Exercise02.dwg. 5. Close the drawing window.
Page 3 Chapter 16 Exercise 3 1. Open AutoCAD 2012 with a double-click on its shortcut icon in the Windows desktop. 2. Open the template acadiso.dwt. 3. Following the same procedures as described for the drawing in answer to Exercise 1, construct the required drawing. The floor plan on the right shows the resulting drawing. 4. Save your drawing to a memory stick with the file name 16_Exercise03.dwg. 5. Close the drawing window. Chapter 16 Exercise 4 The illustrations throughout this and Exercise 5 before rendering are in Visual Style/Conceptual. 1. Open AutoCAD 2012 with a double-click on its shortcut icon in the Windows desktop. 2. Open the template acadiso3d.dwt. 3. Open the Layer Manager palette and make four new layers Blue, Green, Magenta and Red with colours the same as the layer names. 4. Make layer Red current. 5. Assuming the front wall height is 3.000 m and working to a scale of 1:50 construct the front wall from an extrusion of height 3. 6. Then construct the rear wall. 7. Make layer Blue current and construct the window frames for the front and rear walls and the door for the front wall.
Page 4 8. Make layer Magenta current and construct the end walls, followed by making layer Blue current and constructing the end wall windows. 9. Place in the SW Isometric view and make a union of the four walls. 10. Make layer Green current and construct the roof from a pline of the end of the roof which is extruded. 11. Make layer 0 current and construct a floor for the house - an extrusion of height 2. 12. Features such as a paths, guttering can be added if thought fit. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Page 5 13. Turn off all layers other than Red. 14. Click the arrow at the bottom right-hand corner of the Render/Materials panel to bring the Materials Editor palette on screen. Click button at the bottom right-hand corner of the palette to bring the Materials Browser palette on screen. In the Autodesk Library list click Masonry-Brick. In the Sort list of brick icons which appears select Flemish and when the icon appears in the Different Materials area of the palette, drag the icon on to the wall. 15. With the Render Region tool from the Render/Render panel render the wall model. The wall will render with the bricks showing too large. 16. Double-click in the Image area of the Materials Editor. The Texture Editor palette appears. In the Scale filed enter 50 in the Sample Size/Width field, the Height figure automatically changes to retain the balance between width and height. 17. Render the walls model again. The result is shown on page 6. 18. Turn layer Red off. 19. Turn layer Green on. Add the material Roofing/Slate Blue to the roof model using the same procedures as when adding a material to the walls. 20. Turn layer Green off and layer 0 on and add the material Flooring-Carpet/Berber Pattern 3 to the floor. 21. Turn layer 0 off and layer Blue on and apply the material Paint/Paint to the door and windows. 21. With the 3DOrbit tool place the model in a new position. 22. Turn all layer on and render. 23. Change to perspective view and render again. 24. The results of items 21 to 23 are shown on Page 6.
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Page 7 Chapter 16 Exercise 5 1. Open AutoCAD 2012 with a double-click on its shortcut icon in the Windows desktop. 2. Open the template acadiso3d.dwt. 3. ViewCube//Front. On layer 0 construct polyline outlines of the front wall of the house, one of the windows and the door. Each rectangle must be a closed polyline. 4. Copy the door panels to one side of the door and extrude them to a height of 0.5. 5. Extrude all other closed plines to a height of 1. 6. Subtract the door panel extrusions of height 1 from the main door outline 7. Extrude the copied door panels to a height of 0.5. 8. Subtract the door and window outline extrusions from the wall outline. 9. Subtract the window panes from the main window outline. 10. Move the door panels of height 0.5 back to their correct positions in the door outline. 11. Form a union of the door outline and the door panels. 12. ViewCube/Isometric. Home/View/Visual Styles/ Conceptual to check the results. 13. ViewCube//Front. Move the door and window to their correct positions in the wall and copy the window to three other positions within the wall. 14. ViewCube/Isometric. Check again that the model is correct.
Page 8 15. ViewCube//Right. Construct the right-hand wall using similar methods as when constructing the front wall. 16. ViewCube/Left. Construct the left-hand wall. 17. ViewCube/Isometric. To check. 18. Using similar methods, construct the rear wall. 19. ViewCube//Top. Form a union of the four walls. 20. Layer Blue. Construct the garage walls in a similar manner and add the doors on layer Magenta.
21. ViewCube/Right. Layer Green. Construct a pline along wedges of roof of main building. Offset by 2. Add vertical lines each end of the two plines and form a closed pline to extrude to a height of 135. 22. Repeat for the roof of the garage, extruding to a height of 55. 23. ViewCube/Top. With Ortho Mode set on move the roofs to their correct positions on the main building and garage. 24. ViewCube/Isometric. Check that the roofs are in position. 25. ViewCube/Right. Layer 0. Construct the brickwork for the chimney. 26. ViewCube/Top. Layer Red. Construct two cylinders for the chimney pot, subtracting the smaller from the large. Page 9 27. ViewCube/Top. Turn layer Green off. On layer Cyan. Construct the ground floor - an extrusion 0.5 high. 28. ViewCube/Front. Copy the ground floor to form the first floor. 29. Turn layer Green back on. ViewCube/ Isometric. Check. 30. ViewCube/Top. Layer Green off. Layer Red current. Construct the concrete foundation and paths - an extrusion 0.5 high. 31. Turn all layers back on. ViewCube/ Isometric. Check.
Page 10 32. 3D Navigate/Top. Layer Green. Construct garden - an extrusion of height 0.5. 33. ViewCube/Top. Layer Yellow. Construct a post with a fence. Post 3 square and 20 high extrusion. Fence 30 x 1 and 17 high. Form a union of the two extrusions, copy and rotate to form a fence around the garden, leaving spaces for doorway and garage entrance. Turn all layers other than Yellow off and form a union of all the parts of the fence. 34. ViewCube/Isometric. Check. 35. Partly open the front and garage doors by rotation in Top and Right views. The result is shown on Page 7 in a ViewCube/Isometric view. Note The model is now ready for rendering. 1. Turn off all layers other than 0 and Blue.
Page 11 2. Set Sun Status on in the Render/Sun & Location panel, 3. In the Material Browser select Masonry and from the Masonry Brick from the Autodesk Library and select English. 4. Drag the English brick icon on to the drawing and with the Render Region tool from the Render/Render panel check the rendering. 5. Drag the English brick icon into the Materials Browser palette, click the Image.
Page 12 6. The Texture Editor - Color palette appears. Reset the Scale in the palette. 7. Call Render Region and render the walls and chimney. 8. Adjust scale and colour in the palettes if necessary until satisfied with the rendering.. 9 Turn all layers except Magenta and Red off and apply the material Paint/Paint to the doors and windows, but change the colour to Blue.
Page 13 10. On layer Green apply the material Roofing/Shingle-Half-Round Light Brown to the roofs of the house and garage. Adjust the colour. 11. Apply the material Flooring-Tile/Square Tan to the floors and adjust the tiling size. 12. Apply the material Concrete/Rough Tan to the paths and adjust colour. 13. Render the model using the Render/Render Region tool. 14. Check and adjusting lighting if needed. 15. Save your drawing to a memory stick with the file name 16_Exercise05.dwg. 16. Close the drawing window. Chapter 16 Exercise 6 1. Open AutoCAD 2012 with a double-click on its shortcut icon in the Windows desktop. 2. Open the template acadiso3d.dwt. 3. Layer 0. In a similar manner to the construction of the walls in Exercise 4, construct the walls of the garage, working to a scale of 1:50. Form a union of the walls using the Union tool. 4. On layer Blue construct the window frames and the door frame..
Page 14 5. On layer Green construct an extrusion for the roof. 6. On layer Magenta, construct the floor - an extrusion of height 1. 7. On layer Blue construct the door. 8. Apply materials as follows: Walls: Masonry-Brick-Flemish-Diagonal. Roof: Roofing/Shingle-Composition. Floor: Concrete/Exposed Aggregate. Window frames, door and door frame: Wood- Painted White.. 9. Render the model. 10. Save your drawing to a memory stick with the file name 16_Exercise06.dwg. 11. Close the drawing window. Material accompanying Introduction to AutoCAD 2012, ISBN 9780080969473. Copyright 2011, Alf Yarwood.
Page 15 Chapter 16 Exercise 7 1. Open AutoCAD 2012 with a double-click on its shortcut icon in the Windows desktop. 2. Open the template Imperial.dwt. 3. Reset Limits to Upper right corner 8-0.00,6 0.00 and Zoom to 1. 4. In the ViewCube/End view, construct a full scale end view of the garden seat. 5. Using the Polyline Edit (pedit) tool ensure each part of the end view is a closed polyline. 6. Extrude each part of the end view to the sizes given in the front view. 7. Place in the ViewCube/Front view.
Page 16 8. Make sure that Ortho is set on. 9. With the Copy tool, copy the end frame 42 inches to the right. 10. With the Move tool, move the other parts of the seat to their correct positions relative to the end frames. 11. Place in the View/Views/NE isometric view. 12. With the Union tool form a union of the parts of the chair. 13. Place in the Visual Style/ Shaded. 14. At the command line: Command: enter change right-click CHANGE Select objects: pick the seat 1 found Select objects: right-click 1 found Specify change point or [Properties]: enter p right-click Enter property to change [Color/Elev/LAyer/LType/ltScale/LWeight/Thickness/TRansparency/Material/Annotative]: enter c right-click New color [Truecolor/COlorbook] <BYLAYER>: enter 44 right-click Enter property to change [Color/Elev/LAyer/LType/ltScale/LWeight/Thickness/TRansparency/Material/Annotative]: right-click Command: 15.. Save your drawing to a memory stick with the file name 16_Exercise??.dwg. 16. Close the drawing window.
Page 17 Chapter 16 Exercise 8 1. Open AutoCAD 2012 with a double-click on its shortcut icon in the Windows desktop. 2. Open the template Imperial.dwt. 3. Reset Limits to Upper right corner 10-0.00,8 0.00 and Zoom to 1 and Zoom to 1. 4. In the ViewCube/Front view and working to full scale, construct the front view of the front of the table legs and rail lots. 5. Extrude the outline to a height of 1.5. 6. Construct a pline of the end of one of the top slats. Extrude it to a height of 36. 7. With the Copy tool, copy the extrusions to fill the other slots in the top rail. 8. Construct a pline outline of the ends of the end rails and extrude them to a height of 33. 9. Place in the ViewCube/Top view. 10. Make sure Ortho is set on. Copy the legs and front rail to the other end of the table slots. 11. Move the end rails to their correct positions in between the top rails. 12. Place in the ViewCube/Isometric view. 13. With the Union tool, form the construction into a union. 14. Change to the Visual Style/Shaded style. 15. With the Change to change the colour of the table to green. 16. Readjust the pictorial position of the table using the 3dorbit tool.
Page 18 17. Save your drawing to a memory stick with the file name 16_Exercise??.dwg. 18. Close the drawing window
Page 19 Additional exercise The first of the three drawings below is a site location plan which includes a small bungalow to be built on Plot 5. The second drawing is a site plan for the development and the third drawing on Page 15 is a second site plan for the bungalow on Plot 5 showing more detail. Construct the three drawings working to suitable scales. Material accompanying Introduction to AutoCAD 2012, ISBN 000-0-0000-0000-0. Copyright 2011, Alf Yarwood.
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