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Graphic Communication and Design. First semester, first year for construction management students Hand drawing Simple sketch design 3D CAD documentation. Students struggle with:. Understanding scale in drawings Recognising drawing symbols Visualising designs in 3D - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Graphic Communication and Design
First semester, first year for construction management students
Hand drawing Simple sketch design 3D CAD documentation
Students struggle with: Understanding scale in drawings Recognising drawing symbols Visualising designs in 3D Documenting 3D designs in 2D paper
format
Francis Francis Jones Morehen Thorp
Source: Building Product News
Building Information Modelling Increasingly we build our buildings
virtually before building them actually
Coordination of different consultants Clash detections Integrated time scheduling – 4D CAD Automatic quantities and costing
The problem ArchiCAD is difficult to learn if you
have no background in construction drawing
Existing training programs tend to assume some prior knowledge
Students starting from scratch need a lot of support
The two screen solution 32 short YouTube videos Students can watch these on their I
Pads while working through the program on their laptop or home computer
http://www.youtube.com/embed/si_rjJwSPwQ?list=PLZsIiam7ad3Clc8ULRx2S1_X5NrSpsF5I
A powerful design tool for visualising the future