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INTD 1350: AutoCAD for Interior Designers
Effective date
Department
Interior Design Technology
School
Continuing Studies
Description
Through demonstrations, practical application and discussions and by using the current release of AutoCAD, students will become familiar with the basic commands necessary to complete a full set of plotted working drawings. Students will construct a residential floor plan using lines, curves, blocks and text. Students will be guided through all the necessary steps to create and print a professional working drawing set through the use of computer aided drafting (CAD).
Credits
3.0
Year of study
1st Year Post-secondary
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify the major components on the AutoCAD interface environment
- Open, close and dock toolbars and set up units and limits in model space
- Assemble various types of files including .dwg, .dwt, restore., and .bak
- Create a title block using attributed text
- Arrange text styles, dimension styles, layers and blocks
- Select commands to generate construction, furniture and plan drawings
- Plot drawings using appropriate line weights in metric and imperial scales
- Describe annotative text and dimension styles
- Create dimension construction plans
Prior Learning Assessment & Recognition (PLAR)
Prior Learning Assessment & Recognition may be available
Hours
Clinical, Lab, Rehearsal, Shop, Kitchen, Simulation, Studio: 36
Total Hours: 36
Total Hours: 36
Instructional Strategies
Instructional strategies include lectures, demonstrations, case studies, critiques, pinups, research, group discussions, individual study and projects.
Grading System
Letter Grade (A-F)
Passing grade
C+
Evaluation Plan
|
Type |
Percentage |
Assessment activity |
|
Participation |
10 |
Attendance, punctuality, engagement |
|
Assignments |
10 |
Assignment 1 |
|
Assignments |
20 |
Assignment 2 |
|
Assignments |
30 |
Assignment 3 |
|
Final Exam |
30 |
Final exam |
Course topics
- File naming and saving
- DWG, BAK, recover, auto-backup,
- Model space, paper space, imperial and metric measurements
- Setting up limits and units
- Tools, pan and zoom, erase/delete, undo/redo, windowing
- Drawing lines: ortho, polar, direct distance -rectangles, relative coordinates, command window
- Commands, lines and poly lines, pedit/joining, changing width, point style, arc, circles, divide
- Grips, fillet, ellipse, scale, blocks
- Text: snap and grid, single line, multi line, editing attributing, properties manager, design centre
- Layers, organization, colours, freeze, lock-match, properties, paint brush,line type, dimensioning and dimensions styles, annotative dims, design center, hatching, break at point
- Files, plotting, copying, renaming layouts, viewport, paper space
Notes:
- Course contents and descriptions, offerings and schedules are subject to change without notice.
- Students are required to follow all College policies including ones that govern their educational experience at VCC. Policies are available on the VCC website at:
https://www.vcc.ca/about/governance--policies/policies/. - To find out if there are existing transfer agreements for this course, visit the BC Transfer Guide at https://www.bctransferguide.ca.