CAD - Creating a Building
 


Your instructor will walk you through the process of creating a building using the following specifications. Follow along and show your completed drawing to your instructor for teacher check.

Note: The following instructions are meant to be used with teacher demonstration and are not meant to be used without teacher assistance.

  1. Open ArchiCAD and create a new project. Save the file in your ITGS\CAD folder as Garage with Shed
  2. Open the snap settings by going to View > Grid & Editing Plan Options > Grids and Background.
  3. Change the snap settings to 1' increments and confirm that the grid is set to 4'. Turn snap to grid on.
  4. Double click on the wall tool to see the current wall settings. Make the wall height equal to 9ft. and change the wall width to 6".
  5. Change the wall material to 6" siding and click OK to close the properties window.
  6. Draw a wall that is 24' wide and 18' deep.
  7. Click on the Arrow tool to exit the wall tool.
  8. Press the F3 key and rotate around your building, what is missing? Press F2 to return to your floor plan.
  9. Double click on the slab tool and set the material for the slab to white pine on the top side and confirm that the thickness of the slab is 1'. Draw a slab under your walls.
  10. Next you will add a door on the side of the garage. Double click on the door tool to see the properties of the door. Accept the defaults by clicking OK. Select the side geometry method for inserting the door (not the center geometry) and insert a side door that is 2' from the outside of the back wall and opens outward.
  11. Now place one window on this same wall, two on the back wall and two on the far wall. The windows need to be the W Casement 2 type windows and need to be 3' wide by 4' tall. Place each window three feet from the outside of the wall. Be sure you are using the edge geometry method.
  12. Insert two 8' garage doors two feet from the edge of the outside wall in the front of the garage. The doors should open into the garage. The garage doors are found in the specialty doors and frames folder in the library. Choose any style but be sure it is 8' wide. Press F3 and confirm your proper placement of the garage doors.
  13. Place a roof on the garage that extends two feet beyond the walls. The top material should be asphalt shingle and the underside of the roof should be W Pine H. The angle of the roof should be 30 degrees and the height the same as the walls. Use the rectangle geometry method to draw the roof. With the roof tool selected the first line you draw will be the hinge line, this is where the roof will contact the wall. Draw this line along the front of the garage. The eye is where the peak of the roof will be, click inside the garage. When the pencil appears you need to draw the roof, remember 2' larger than the building.
  14. Use the arrow tool to select the roof and then choose Edit > Move > Mirror a Copy. Click on the upper left hand corner of the current roof and then on the upper right corner to place a mirrored copy of the roof on the garage. Press F3. What is wrong with your garage?
  15. Select the end walls and change the height to 20'. Press F3, the walls should now be extending above the roof. With the end walls and roofs selected select Design > Connect > Trim Elements to Roof/Shell and click OK. Repeat this process with the other wall as well.
  16. Dimension your garage to be sure it is the correct size.
  17. Congratulations, your garage is now ready for that new car of yours.

    To complete this exercise continue with steps 18-21

  18. But you are not actually finished with this assignment until you create an 8' X 6' shed with 8' tall walls that has one door and window as well as a roof and slab of course. Place the shed near the house.
  19. Now that your garage and shed are finished create a 3D view that you like and then go to Document > Creative Imaging and select Photo Render Projection.
  20. Go back to your floor plan view and place your name, date and period next to the house. Zoom in so the house and shed fill the entire window. Go to File > Print and select the following in the print dialogue window: Print Area - Current Zoom; Scale - Fit to Page. Be sure there is only one page shown in the preview window then print your floor plan. Set the page layout to landscape prior to printing.
  21. When you have completed your shed your completed drawing to your instructor for teacher check and turn in your print out.
 

 

Practice Garage with shed