Journal - Week #17

- Monday, June 13, 2011 - I decided to forget my former plan of waiting until I finished formatting all of my Envisioneer drawings to JPG, mostly because I forgot which ones I have done. Finish re-formatting my house from Envisioneer to JPG and I also uploaded all the pictures to my blog. Now some more problems have shown up, first the video of my house walk-through will not save as the entire video. Second, I have learned of a new mini-project that we have to do, which is to make a booklet in photo-shop.

- Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - The headers of the pictures of my house needed to be fixed because they would keep screwing up, it was driving me insane looking at them. After finishing with that, Mr. D showed me how to save the walk-through of my house as a video...took most of the class to save a 53 second video.

- Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - The video of my house walk-through won't upload to my blog, apparently it didn't save as the right type of file, doesn't matter anymore as I was told just to move on. For the next project we have to present our house in a booklet type format, but to make life easier, you can do it in Powerpoint and transfer it into photoshop.

- Thursday, June 16, 2011 - It is down to the wire, today and tomorrow are the last days to work on this project. I am not too worried about it though, because this project is almost finished. Although converting the room sizes is a pain though, I think that part should be done at home so time isn't wasted. So I have been converting my house measurements and they don't seem to be coming out right...I guess asking Mr. D how to find square footage for the rooms. What a waste of a night.

- Friday, June 17, 2011 - Today is the final day to finish our houses that we have been working on for a month, I am so excited. It was a busy period finishing the project, worked on getting the final JPG images of the rooms in 3D perspective so we can see the rooms with the furniture in them. To make the 3D perspective a JPG, I pretty much just used the Print Screen key and pasted it into the Paint program then saved as a JPG. Then I uploaded all the photos into my PowerPoint presentation. After that the file was converted into a PDF file, which made it so it would be possible to create a link on my blog, the link is just below my company's logo and just above these journals to the left. This will be my final journal entry, it's been fun so I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I have been working on this project.

House Research

Journal - Week #16

- Monday, June 6, 2011 - Worked on finishing putting the dimensions into my house. Created extra sheets so I could put the floor plan with and without dimensions, and the elevations of my house in wire-frame and also in rendered form. I only got the floor plan without dimensions and the wire-frame of my elevations.

- Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - Mr. D evaluated our progress on our houses and gave us marks and told us what we could improve on and what we forgot to do in the creative process. Then I put the floor plans and wire-frame elevation in a title block.

- Wednesday, June 8, 2011 - Figured out how to get the elevations of my house in rendered format, quickly put them in their designated title block.I also changed all the information at the side of the title block, by double-clicking it. At the end of class we listened to Mr. D talk about the review for the exam.

- Thursday, June 9, 2011 - Fixed my bubble diagram so it would match the floor plan that I did on Envisioneer. After finishing that I imported my Envisioneer floor plan to Auto-CAD for the same reason but the floor plan I did on Auto-CAD was widely different then the one from Envisioneer. Then I uploaded them to my blog, under Final Project - House Design page. Then just for the heck of it I created a new elevation of my house except it was not rendered or it did not have any unnecessary lines in it, just the outside of the house.

- Friday, June 10, 2011 - I started transferring the title blocks of my house from Envisioneer formatting to Jpeg format. This is proving to be a lengthy process because you can not just change the format straight from Envisioneer to Jpg. First, you have to export the title block to Auto-CAD, then change the colour of the lines to white. After that you save the Auto-CAD file as a Jpg by going to the file tab and clicking the Plot option and in that option go to the Printer portion and click the drop down tab beside name and click PublishToWeb JPG.pc3. Once that is done, you open the Jpg in Paint program and fix the boundaries, also at this stage if you had pictures in Envisioneer to have to import them in because Auto-CAD deletes the pictures. Then I saved the files and I plan to upload them to my blog once I finish them all. This part is tedious but a necessary process to go through.

Journal - Week #15

Monday, May 30, 2011 - Was not at school - Half Day Kayak Trip.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - Did a walk-through my house.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 - Made a video of a walk through of my house
Thursday, June 2, 2011 - Fixed the V-Block and Screwdriver project that we did on Rhinoceros
Friday, June 3, 2011 - Fixed the walk-through of my house and started putting dimensions in.

Screw Driver

With this assignment we had to design a screw driver in Rhinoceros. First we had to draw a polyline outline for what the screwdriver and to roughly look like. The we use Control Point Curve to create the actual outline of my screwdriver. After making the outline I edited the points so it looked like a more professional screwdriver. Then using the revolve tool, it became a actual screwdriver. Then I used Boolean Difference to create a flat head and the grooves in the handle.

Rhinoceros V-Block

V-Block
This is the first project on Rhinoceros that we have done, we just followed measurements that were set on the piece of paper we had. But I only did half of V-block then mirrored it to saved time. After the object itself was made I extruded it to create the object that you see here.

Journal - Week #14

Monday, May 23, 2011 - Victory Day - No school.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - I messing around with the elevation of objects. Plus tried to do a practice runs with Walk Around.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - Started using the program called Rhinoceros, made a weird looking object and started a screw driver.
Thursday, May 26, 2011 - Screw driver is being a pain, some of the commands won't work and is annoying me.
Friday, May 27, 2011 - Success huzzah.

Journal - Week #13

Monday, May 16, 2011 - Worked on the space essay from Friday.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 - The house is almost finished, not sure what more I can do.
Wednesday, May, 18, 2011 - Putting the finishing touches on my house.
Thursday, May 19, 2011 - Going to try and wing it today.
Friday, May 20, 2011 - Officially running out of things to do.

My Design Statement

Boyd Construction LTD. is a innovator in construction design. We build all types of houses to suit your lifestyle, from elegant to the contemporary. We thrive on customer service which is our top priority, because your satisfaction is important to us.

Journal - Week #12

Monday, May 9, 2011 - Work on my house in Envisioneer, then a little bit on my design statement.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - My house is coming along, finished my design statement it could be better. Also worked on the rest of the project...not sure what i'm looking for though.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - Finished the house design, worked on the research.
Thursday, May 12, 2011 - Listened to the teacher talk about a essay project.
Friday, May 13, 2011 - Work on the essay...Need more time then 2 days in class.

Journal - Week #11

Monday, May 2, 2011 - Worked on my house in AutoCAD trying to design what my house should look like.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - Finished drawing the house, then went over the existing lines with Pline, which is thicker then the normal line.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 - I spent the period thinking and placing where my doors and windows should go. After that I use the Break command to make a gap in the Pline, then I colour coded them. Green for doors, Blue for windows, and Yellow for an opening (a gap with no door).
Thursday, May 5, 2011 - Worked on AutoCAD to figure out the dimensions for the rooms in my house.
Friday, May 6, 2011 - Tried to write my house statement, not having any luck with it though.

Journal - Week #10

Monday, April 25, 2011 - Easter Monday - No school
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 - Worked on my bubble diagram for designing my house. Also looked over a note for a more detailed look at it. Envisoneer is the next stage, this is going to be fun.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - Floor plan is becoming a giant pain.
Thursday, April 28, 2011 - Tried to figure out how to do the floor plan on AutoCAD. Pain in the butt because the rules keep on getting changed.
Friday, April 29, 2011 - Was not at school, I was helping out at track & field.

Journal - Week #9

Monday, April 18, 2011 - We listened to the people in the grade 12 course give a presentation on Threads, Fasteners, and Tolerancing.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - The teacher was sick so we did four quizzes on the internet about Threads, Fasteners, and Tolerancing. Also worked on our floor plans.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - Worked on house floor plan.
Thursday, April 21, 2011 - Not here, doctor's appointment
Friday, April 22, 2011 - Good Friday, no school.

Chapter 12 Quiz 6

1 Correct		The easiest way to create fasteners on a bolt circle in AutoCAD LT® is to
			A) create each fastener individually.
			B) create one fastener and copy it to the other locations.
			C) create one fastener and use a rectangular array to place the others.
			D) create one fastener and use a polar array to place the others.
2 Correct		When you create a rectangular array, the Array dialog box allows you to specify all of the following except
			A) the amount of space between rows and columns.
			B) the size of each object in the array.
			C) the number of rows.
			D) the number of columns.
3 Correct		When you create a polar array, you can place the center point of the array by all of the following means except
			A) entering relative coordinates.
			B) entering X and Y coordinates.
			C) picking an arbitrary point anywhere in the drawing area.
			D) using object snaps.
4 Correct		The total number of objects in an array consisting of six rows and four columns is
			A) 18.
			B) 24.
			C) 36.
			D) 48.
5 Correct		The TOLERANCE command is used to apply
			A) basic tolerances.
			B) deviation tolerances.
			C) limits tolerances.
			D) feature control frames and datum references.
6 Correct		When you pick the Sym box in the Geometric Tolerance dialog box, the
			A) diameter symbol (Ø) appears.
			B) Symbol dialog box appears.
			C) Datum dialog box appears.
			D) radius symbol (R) appears.
7 Correct		The TOLERANCE command allows you to create multiple tolerances, up to a maximum of
			A) 2.
			B) 3.
			C) 4.
			D) 5.
8 Correct		In the Material Condition dialog box, the blank box at the right end allows you to
			A) specify a nonstandard material condition.
			B) open a new dialog box with additional material condition options.
			C) remove an existing material condition from the feature control frame.
			D) create a custom material condition symbol.
9 Correct		The Height box in the Geometric Tolerance dialog box
			A) specifies the height of each tolerance in the feature control frame.
			B) specifies the height of the entire feature control frame.
			C) creates a primary datum references.
			D) creates a projected tolerance zone value.
10 Correct		The Projected Tolerance Zone box in the Geometric Tolerance dialog box
			A) inserts a projected tolerance zone symbol.
			B) opens a dialog box allowing you to select a projected tolerance zone.
			C) creates a projected tolerance zone value.
			D) inserts a datum identifier.