This post originally appeared on Habitables as part of my guest blogger series on architectural software.
Before starting any design in AutoCAD, it’s important to format your drawing space to your project’s requirements. This is how I prepare to start CADing.
I will run through this article with references to the Windows version of AutoCAD, but the same commands and menu locations work on the Mac version, too.
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This post originally appeared on Habitables as part of my guest blogger series on architectural software.
As a lover of architecture and self-labeled technology geek, I was immediately drawn to a program offered at a local technical college in Omaha, Nebraska. A semester in to my degree course in Architecture Design Technology, I have become intrigued by the software used by architecture firms, most of which I will cover over the next year.
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Two things I am relatively new to are RSS feeds (I had always used Twitter to find articles in the past) and architecture. The latter has been a primary focus of mine over the past few months and the former has scratched "TV time" out of my schedule.
As you may imagine there are plenty of blogs out there that are written by architects, architecture students or others in the field but not as many as I initially thought there would be. Maybe their schedules don’t permit it. The few I have come across are excellent reads, funny and very thought provoking.
So, last week I started my Architectural Design Technology course and the class I kicked things of with was Beginning AutoCAD. The course essentially gives you a primer to AutoCAD that allows for more in depth learning and technique in future courses. I just wanted to run through some initial impressions I had of AutoCAD as well as share my first pieces of “work” – you’ll see why I use the air bunnies in a second.
Today I start my first class at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha. I’m taking my first steps in receiving an Associates Degree in Architectural Design Technology. Essentially this degree would give me some (hopefully most) of the skills needed to be a CAD/Revit/3DS monkey. It’s not a full on architecture course but there are plenty of theory and art classes mixed in with the software/tech ones that I’m really looking forward to.
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