Cad Drafting

Catalog description

The goal of CAD Drawing and Visualization is for students to become familiar with the principles of Computer- Aided Drafting as it applies to design for theater, film, and television, using the software Vectorworks. This course will focus on developing your abilities to use this software to create design drawings, to aid in the development of designs and models, to create technical schematics, to interface with other software, and to publish and print a package of drafting for a theater or film/TV set. This course will be focused on two major goals. One goal is to familiarize your understanding of the Vectorworks software, its tools, and its environment. The second goal is focused on your understanding of drafting for theater, film and television, and projects will be aimed at holistically developing your abilities to generate a complete package of drafting to communicate your designs to a production manager, your collaborators, or a builder. Class time will be devoted to examining techniques to utilize the CAD software and to looking at specific examples, while the homework assignments will be a chance for students to practice applying what you have learned in class. We will devote the last portion of every class to beginning the homework assignments together and spend some amount of each subsequent class looking at the previous week’s homework, especially if there were difficulties that need addressing and/or synthesizing.