Monday, June 6, 2011

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.