AutoCad - Understanding Plan & Assessment

There was an assessment for 2 weeks AutoCAD study.

2 weeks study covered basic commands with simple options, with which, we could refer to a beginner.

Before we go through the assessment, there was some time to read "FireBug" plans and draw it in AutoCAD and I found it quite interesting. What I was focusing on at the time was how to recreate it in AutoCAD, what commands I need thing.

But, to me, it was all about understanding, decoding the plans, not the CAD thing. Plans were not kind enough, so it seemed that many essential information were missing but it didn't.  All the information we need were in those plans,,in the same page or another.

Then,,Why?

Designer and plans regard you as a pro, as a pro, you must be able to combine all the information in different places and sometimes, speculate it.

We didn't think about that at the beginning of class, almost all of us simply check the what's seen directly and started drawing. But soon after it, most of us should get back to plans, check the measures with a rule and talk about how we could get missing information. And this took quite a time and was a great practice, and for assessment.

Since we've gone through "reading plan", So this time, everyone was focusing on gathering information we need instead of rushing to workstation. After we got all we need, we started drawing.

And this time, we became the one who let other people to read the plan, we should be kind enough to keep all the information needed in the plan - All the dimensions.

Below is my final output.

There's one more little thing that you should remember in AutoCad. When you start drawing, you start drawing it all the way from the first on your own. Including me, many of us had problem with some setting issues in AutoCad. And the one of the reason was we used existing dwg file drawn by someone else or copied objects from someone else's drawing. So if we use those things created by someone else, then we use a certain setting created by someone else too and it's quite hard to find and correct it.

Comments

[christopher lovegrove]

How is it?
A good reflection on the process used to do the AutoCAD drawing.
Yes we need to give enough dimensions so that the boatbuilder can make the two components you have drawn.
Your final layout looks good. Is the viewport and boarder on the right hand side out side the printable area?
Cheers