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Week 12 - The Finals

Using the previous template that I have created for engineering drawing, I saved time by not needing to create a title block, and all the other borders for the appropriate paper size.

Progress of the Front View

Progress of Front View

Top View

Side View

Overview of the CAD Drawings.

Updating my progress on project 3, this weekend, I have finished my AutoCad drawings that showcases my kettle product that I’ll be using as a template in creating it. Through the process, there weren’t any major problems that I encountered, but nearing till the end, I was deciding whether or not I should include the dimensions, which I didn’t. It is not until when I read the brief again, that it was a requirement to show the overall dimensions of my product that I realised that I need to redo my CAD, and reprint my CAD drawing again. In estimation, I should be done on Tuesday or earlier.

Reflecting upon this class course, IDES 1261, the class has been really informative, and the projects has been enjoyable. The class presents challenging ideas and problems to the students in every single class, and through these challenging problems helps us learn better and be more informative about the course.

Through the classes, we have touched upon the importance of hand sketches, primarily hand-drawn techniques on engineering drawings. We also touched on softwares like AutoCAD LT, and Photoshop CC. We also had a class on photography, and we had 2 classes dedicated to a guest speaker from Canberra, Tom Skeehan to give us lessons on perspective drawings, and hand sketches in general.

In the beginning, the exercises that we do with hand sketches can be seen tiring, and challenging, because you have to relied on yourself, and you don’t have something to fall back on like the computer. As time went on, my experience with this skill has been really positive. I actually preferred hand drawn in some scenarios like getting a general contour of a product because its much faster.

Next, we had exercises with the AutoCAD LT. The software is a dull-down version of the full AutoCAD, making it simpler to navigate, and easier to use. I love the software a lot when creating products sketch in this software. The command bar is the most useful, because everything is there, and it is appropriately layout. It saved me a lot of time using this feature. Another feature that I liked using AutoCAD is the snap mode features, making straight lines is as easy as a click of a button. In general though, everything is available in the software that is easy to use to make whatever product we can with greater precision and accuracy compared to hand drawn methods, as this sort of skill will continue with us, as industrial designers throughout our lives.

Moving onto AutoCAD LT, we had photoshop lessons, and a lot of the features that I have gotten used to with AutoCAD LT was gone. It was hard to adapt to it, as I didn’t enjoy the software as much besides it will be useful in editing our images for future uses. I really think that these exercises are fun, like the photography around the campus, but I am not good with this software, as I wasn’t satisfied with my score for project 2.

Lastly, we had guest speaker, Tom Skeehan, who is in Canberra, gave us lessons on perspective drawings, which are useful skills that good Industrial designers should possess. His lessons aspires students to be better designers, and he has gave us tips and tricks about the course that he had went through. For example, using ball point black pens to do sketches, which is a major staple that designers around the world uses. He also suggest us to get a personal visual diary where we jot down our ideas and sketches.

Overall, this class was fun, informative, and challenging, which are three great aspects that makes it a great class, and I enjoyed every moment of it. The class has taught me valuable lessons, tips and tricks, and knowledge that I could take with me to my other classes in the future. Thank you Rob for the amazing class, and the speeches you gave during the lectures. Well appreciated!

Week 11 - Project 3 Measurements

In this week class, we are brief for our final project, project 3 - bare bones.

Steel ruler was used for general measurements like the height, width, and thickness of the kettle.

Caliper was used to measured the diameter of the circle from the bottom to the top of the kettle.

Here is a look on the masking tape finished for the kettle to help mark off the points and gaps needed to create for this project.

Masking tape finished overlay on kettle, with numbers of foam core needed to construct, as well as the midpoint.

General measurements recorded down in the sketchbook.

Figuring out the diameter of the circle from bottom to top.

Using profile gauge to figure out the shape, and caliper to measure the width, and thickness of the handle.

Like most other students, the start of the project is always the confusing part, because you don’t know where to start, you think the project description is vague, and you have no idea what product you should go for in order to earn better marks.

The product that I chose is a kettle that I used at home. The product itself is simple because of the circles of the base from bottom to top, while presenting itself a challenge as there are different elements that I need to consider, and make to create this bare bone project.

To measure the kettle isn’t as hard as I thought. I actually got help from Gonz, which he suggested to not over-complicate this project, and don’t waste time trying to make it too perfect, due to the immense amount of assignments that we have due in the final weeks before semester ends. He suggest to make it as close to the product. Upon hearing his advice, things got a little bit more easier for me, as I started to realised the steps I need to take to approach this bare bone project.

In the pictures, to draw my profile, I used calipers to measure the diameter of the circles from the kettle from bottom to the top. For each 1.5 cm of the height, I marked off the line with consideration that the foam core that I am going to use is 5 mm in thickness, which give me 14 lines from bottom to top of the base, plus one more for the bottom plate that is measure at 120 mm in diameter. The measurement that I got from the top to bottom base goes from 150 mm to 140 mm in descending order. In order to measure that descending order between the top to the bottom would require measuring each of the numbered lines between 1 - 14 with a caliper and drew out the lines of each numbered to give me a visual representation on how it transitions from 140 mm of bottom to 150 mm of top.

One thing that I didn’t include in this tumblr blog post pictures are the more detailed handle measurements. To expand on that, because the handle measurements stays consistent throughout, I measured the width and thickness of it.

Overall, this week is still about figuring out what I still need to do, and seeking advice from students and teachers to get a clearer idea on how to approach this project.

Week 10 - Tom Skeehan Sketching Tutorial

This week tutorial makes us take a break from all the technology work like autocad, and photoshop, instead we are back into the fundamentals of this course, and that is sketching. This week saw Tom Skeehan directed this tutorial as a special guest from Canberra to guide us as industrial designers to produce better sketches that conveys our ideas more promptly. That includes warming up sketches, perspective drawings, introduction to copic markers and renderings, and so much more.

Circles warmup sketches + idea of ghosting

Straight lines warmup sketches + idea of ghosting

Perspective drawing with cubes

Creating as much concept sketches for hairdryer + testing out copic markers

Introduction to light source and how it can make your drawings more 3D

Camera Tutorial sketch + arrows for communication + practicing handwriting.

Final (ish) rendering of the camera sketch

This week’s tutorial saw us practicing our sketches through various exercises. One of the exercises we did in the beginning of class are the warm up sketches. We would spent about 5 minutes doing straight lines sketches, and then circle sketches. In this class, we were introduced to the “ghosting” technique. It is essentially drawing circles and lines in air before actually attempting to draw it on the paper. The benefits of using this method is of course, you get a more accurate representation of a circle, and your lines will be straighter as compared to doing it with lots of strokes. The second benefit of it is because it uses less strokes, it saves time, and it eradicates unnecessary lines. Despite introduced to it, at first I was still not getting the correct lines and shapes, but through rigorous practice, by the end of the tutorial, I have a bit more confidence in doing straight lines and circles. Of course, it still needs daily practice to see the results.

Next, we worked on perspective drawings, we drew lines like the vanishing point as our reference, and we drew a cube as it is the easiest shape for perspective drawing. We are taught that when we are viewing down at the product, the right side of the shape is longer than the one compared to the left, depending on where we view it. To reflect on my perspective drawing, I think I did pretty well in conveying an almost true to life representation of the view of the cube. To further extend our knowledge and practice of this exercise, we did perspective drawing on spheres, then to complicated shapes including a combination of shapes in one perspective drawing. That led us to our final test, which is a perspective drawing on the camera shown in Skeehan’s book.

Rendering is a huge part of what Industrial designers do. It breathes life into the products we make, and it helps illustrate the details that we want to highlight to others. We were introduced to copic markers, and some of the alternatives to it. My experience with these markers were positive. I am not good at it, but after some practices with it, I am starting to get the hang of it. Skeehan’s tip for better rendering techniques include doing it in one go with a straight line, and overlay it as you go, to create a more smoother transition from light to dark tones.

Moving away from the exercises we do, we had conversations with him about the way we present our work, and one of the way he suggested is through what most photographers would often use, and that is the 1 by 3 ratio, meaning putting your product not at the centre, but towards the side, to shift our attention to it. He also covers what to put in order to fill the lines without losing the focality of our product that we want to convey in our concept works. He also highlights the importance of neat handwriting, and the orientation of our wording placement. For example, we don’t want a word like “word” to face upwards when all your other words are horizontal.

It feels like I have a lot to say, but the content we had this week was too much for my brain to soak it, so I feel like I am definitely missing some parts. ANYWAYSSSSS Overall, this week tutorial was really informative, really fun, and really interactive. While, its enjoyable, it also shows that I need to practice more often to get better at what I do and what I lack, as I think that to be able to sketch properly is a foundation skill that each industrial designer needs to master by themselves.

I am just sad that I didn’t get his book for free :(

Week 9 - Project 2 Rendering Presentations

oThe renderings that I witnessed this week was exceptional. Many of the student’s renderings blew me away of how photo-realistic or hyper-realistic it is compared to what I have done. I enjoyed the presentations and the exhibition of the renderings. I felt that I could have done better. Check out this week’s blog below :) Cheers!

Pinterest board of my consumer products selection process

I really only had three products that I want to do out of these products shown, and that was the JBL Charge 3, Amazon echo, and the Dyson hot + cool Jet focus. In the end, I have decided to do the Dyson hot + cool Jet focus due to its minimal design, yet has some challenging aspects that I wanted to challenge myself for this project.

Pinterest board of the industrial design renderings/ renderings.

I was a bit confused with the project, as should I approach the rendering with a more realistic look, or should I go for a more conceptual look?

Pinterest board of the material finishing.

I was confused about this part too. I struggled between going for the material finishing that the product already have? or should I make a new entire option. I wanted to do something with wood, as I love that material a lot. That’s when I came across the light wood colour with metallic rose gold colour scheme, and I wanted to do that for my product.

Here is my rendering drawing of the Dyson product.

This image was granted permission for use from my friend to be use as a background for presentation.

This image was captured from me for use as a background for presentation.

Initial rendering of the product, with the winter image as the background.

Initial rendering of the summer picture as background.

Initial project presentation board. I got critiques from my friends, and decided the rendering is sub-par, and presentation needs to be better. Check below to find out why. *

Refinement process on my rendering based on feedback given from friends.

Final Rendering: Printed and Mounted.

Final mount board.

Coming into the Presentation day, I felt not so nervous during the lecture. I was pretty relaxed. I felt like I might do well for my presentation, and that changed. In the final few minutes as Rob was demonstrating the perspective drawing in Autocad LT, I couldn’t concentrate on the final bits, and I started to freak out, my hand started to fidget (Need one of those fidget gadgets ;) ), and my whole body was fidgeting. I was DAMNNNN worried about my presentation and my renderings board display.

After our short break from lecture, we were allocated to our tutorial groups, and I was assigned to Rob’s group. Initially, I wanted to go in the beginning, but students were just faster than me, and I ended up presenting near the end. There are some benefits in presenting later of the group. I would listen to more of other’s presentation and know what to do and avoid. I would also have more time to prepare a general guideline for what to speak. However, those didn’t work in favor for me, because the students gave great presentation with their presentation boards, and their renderings nailed the coffin for me, as I was disheartened, and not motivated as I first started out. On the contrary, it was a few presentations before it was my turn, when Rob’s speech stuck out to me “realism always doesn’t win.” That made me went back to track, and I got the motivation to present again, as I felt more relieved with the rendering that I have produced so that was a plus, otherwise, my presentation would have been a mess if it weren’t for his speech

Presentation wise, it’s definitely not the best I have given, in fact it’s one of the worse period. I stuttered way too much, I don’t have a good flow of delivery, I didn’t have a set mind going into this, I don’t have a clear guideline as to what I should cover for my presentation. It was all over the place. I felt disappointed in my performance after the presentation, as I wanted to give a really energetic presentation that shows off my rendering new colour scheme that breaks the traditional colour scheme that we often get with our products.

Expanding on my presentation skills, and the overall presentation performance, there are aspects that I could go to improve my presentation and put myself back to form. Firstly, in order to articulate my words clearly, and the pace I want to give to my presentation, I should start reading books aloud, or in general, news, and that’s one of the plan that I had planned to improve on this aspect. One of the strong point I do have is my body language, but some exercises that I had planned to improve upon this would be to give a pre-presentation to my friends in my course, to the friends I stayed with, so I could mentally prepare myself to what to come, as well as getting their feedback to further improve the overall presentation speech when it’s time to give my presentation.

My support material (research board) was decent, its not the least effective, and its not the most effective. I could have do better with adding my industrial design renderings that I found, and more of what I found and used throughout the process of making my dyson renderings. Furthermore, I should have screenshot my progress along the way, so that I could articulate more on the troubles that I had with this rendering, and let viewers understand more of the process, and concepts. Sorry about that. I will try to do it as a habit in future projects and so on.

Overall, the performance given on the presentation day was disappointing. The flaws overtook the positives. I realized I still need to watch more tutorials, and do more practices to achieve the level of an industrial designer in photoshop, and other softwares like AutoCad LT, because with the current rendering that I did, its not good at all.

Cheers!

Week 8 - Photography Tutorial @UNSW

Some of the images selected may not be present in my instagram post. Furthermore, these images are randomly selected in no particular order of worst to great,etc.

Beauty of the purple plant with concrete background.

Looks like the red centre is emitting pollution.

Wonder how bugs or insects view the world?

That summer ish Autumn filter view to the Tyree building.

Sky was beautiful with my model in shot looking towards the accommodation @UNSW.

Black and white filter to an unknown path in UNSW.

Wonder what he has in mind about the view he is seeing.

Firstly, I would like to apologize for not showing as many photos as I want to. I have a lot of photos that I want to share, but the files are just too big, so its taking forever to upload them. I’ll probably post another gallery of it for viewing.

This tutorial is a more creative approach in engaging with the environments around us. It let us explore within the premises of the campus, and through that exploration made me realize that there are still places that I haven’t been to in UNSW.

This week, we took images about the different elements that we could find within the campus, and ohh show off how beautiful UNSW is. :)

The Adobe software that we were taught to used in this exercise was the Adobe bridge, and the camera raw built into the software itself. At first, I couldn’t distinguish the difference between lightroom and camera raw, and found myself hating the camera raw software. However, as I spend more time exploring the program, I actually love the program, and I have been using it for light photo editing in replacement of lightroom because of its simplicity in its interface. Everything was layout perfectly, and accessible in a fingertip. I think this is a perfect example of “never judge the book by its cover.”

The adobe bridge was another good software, as it give me choice to put in ratings of my photos. The only problem is that with the software, when I am editing my photos in Camera raw via Adobe bridge, the edited image doesn’t save to the original one, which is frustrating, because its time consuming to copy the edited image from adobe bridge to other places, so that was a huge disappointment in its software. I wouldn’t be using much of it though, but I guess time will tell.

The concept of my images tries to explore a variety of languages. For example, the first image is all about contrast, where usually we would associate concrete to not blend well with plants. Second image plays around the idea of an awareness poster, where the clouds are seen to emerge from the red centre building to create that effect of “Stop Polluting our earth.”I could have use some more editing where I could darken the lower half of the image to bring the focality up to the top half of the image. The third image was based on the idea of how insects or bugs view their world in their perspective. Fourth image is all about the depiction of a more autumn ish feel to it, where the picture is more grainy, and the temperature of the photo is warmer, giving the leaves a yellow orange feel to them. The fifth image is all about capturing the essence of the blue sky and clouds and how it makes the building pop out like a 2.5 D effect. The sixth image is all about black and white, and how it can give an unknown feeling effect where you can’t see the end of the picture, and you are not sure where that path leads to. ( I actually don’t know where it leads to xD) The last image is capturing a photo that is against the sunlight so that the human figure is all black, while the scenery retains its originality.

Overall, this tutorial was really fun to work on, but of course, if given more time, I think better images can be captured and refined.

Week 8 - Logitech G403 Prodigy Product Shot

Showing off the RGB lighting and the curves of the mouse.

Showing the ergonomic of the mouse.

Showing the side view profile of the mouse.

Playing around with lighting conditions.

For this activity, I used my Huawei P9 as my main photo capture device, rather than my olympus pen EP-3 for this activity. The reason is because the image produced in the Olympus Pen temperature is much warmer as compared to the Huawei P9 where it is more towards the balanced side. The lighting condition to achieve the photos that I presented was through a dark room, with my monitor on, and I used my Iphone 5 as a lighting condition.

The first image, I wanted to show off the RGB lighting of the Logitech mouse logo as well as the beauty of the curves for the mouse. The Iphone 5 light was mounted above the mouse to give that sort of spotlight to the mouse, as I believe it gives more attention to the logo of the mouse rather than spreading it evenly.

The second image, I want to show off how the left click button concaves downward in a slight manner, while the shot also shows how the mouse is sculpted to the top to give its ergonomic feel and look.

The third image demonstrates the side profile of the mouse showing the features of it, where it has 2 button clicks located where your right thumb would rest when you use the mouse. It also gives an overall height of the mouse and the shape of it. In this image, I’ve edited just a tiny bit more compared to the rest, as I want to give off this “more “blurred image” to try to blend the mouse more to the environment in which it was captured.

The fourth image plays around the depiction between the light and the dark of the mouse. The light shows off the material finishing and the curves of the right hand rest, where the dark enhances the RGB lighting feature in the scroll wheel.

Week 6 Studio Tutorial - 2D Photoshop Rendering

Don’t bother asking why I am late to my blog post, it ain’t got nothing to do with laziness. Oh gosh... this tutorial took me 2 weeks to figure it out, AND FINALLY HERE IT IS, mon beau seche-cheveux (my beautiful hairdryer)

Desaturation of the image

Making of Layers

The Finished Layers labels

Now the paths :)

OMG, it works, color actually shown through like F-I-N-A-L-L-Y!

Choosing a color scheme

Realizing my color scheme sucks.

Trying my best to fix it by using the mixing brush tool.

Creation of the LCD Screen (it sucks)

Using the pattern provided in moodle, and insert it into the air inlet.

Final Rendering of the Hairdryer exercise

Having fun at the last bit, experimenting with a product shot with this hairdryer exercise :)

Like I have mentioned, this tutorial exercise took me more than 2 weeks to complete. Primarily, I was stuck at the part on layers, as the instructions given was really confusing, and at some point it just doesn’t work so I gave up for a few days, before retrying it and retrying it again.

This particular part of the tutorial is a disappointment to me. A lot of the instructions given to me was not completed according to the likes that the instructions want me to. For example, the LCD screen, doesn’t look like a LCD screen picture in the instructions booklet. The shading was subpar from the end result. I believe a lot of the process could be improve, and anyways its a learning process for the upcoming project 2 that I could try to fix and improve on.

One thing that is a huge difference between autocad LT and photoshop is that in photoshop there’s no command bar. In the beginning, I would find myself typing commands randomly, because I was so used to the supports and tools available in the AutoCAD LT rather than in photoshop.

During the process of rendering my hairdryer, I realized that the path that I created for the bottom casing is the main casing, and that really screwed up the whole momentum going forward, as I need to make the necessary fixes in order to continue on. Later on, when it was the time to used the pattern given in Moodle for the air inlet, the paths that I outline for it is the air inlet and the back casing of it, so I need to do manual adjustments with the picture by rotating and copying and pasting the picture 2 times to achieve an uniform look. Also, during the LCD screen, it was hard to get it blurred between the white and black, or at least till this day, I still have no clue how to do it.

The immense challenge of this tutorial make me seek help from friends, and actually have an after class session where we try to help each other, and beyond that we been staying in contact to figure out how to move on for each stage, and so on.

Even though the end result of this tutorial is below average in my opinion compare to the end result of what’s given in the instruction booklet, I would say that this tutorial was filled with challenges, learning experiences, and knowledge gained for a software I have rarely used or explore this much before. It really shows that I still have room for improvements, which I am happy about it.

Thank you.

Week 5 Studio Tutorial - Moarrr Drawing with CAD.

First thing first, I would like to apologize for the extremely late post. When the weather work against you, and the excessive amount of work I had, I realized my time management is not the best, so I’ll be working hard to make this post the last ever late post. Furtheremore, I also had trouble with this exercise, so I needed help from my friends, but regardless of all the situations mentioned above, LEGGOOOO!

Creating a template with the title block for easier access in the future.

Added third angle projection, and started with my construction lines.

Progress view of The front view

Completed front view with dimensions added.

Onto the progress for top view

Completed Top view with dimensions and hidden lines.

Progress of the full section right side view.

Completed full section right side view

Overall view of the exercise 5.

Again, I’m sorry for the late post. Regardless with all the unexpected situations, I have completed my work. WOOOOO! (boo from audience)

I have to admit, this week’s exercise was a challenge. It got me on my feet, LITERALLY. I have also noticed that when I am working throughout this exercise, and sending to my friends the progress pictures that I have been working on, my friends pointed out that the drawings that I am doing especially on the height of the third angle projection drawing is wrong. For example, the height of 100 mm is from the center of the small circle to the center of the large circle, and is not the height to the bottom of the pivot bearing. Hence, I looked through the other blog post on tumblr posted by others to see how they did it, and realized that mine was wrong, and it was too late to change it, but to note this mistake here.

Some of the valuable lessons that I have learned throughout this exercise includes shorcuts that add centre lines in between 2 lines and in circles. I also learned the shortcut for creating hatched lines to fill the whole box. I have also adopted the method from how Paul Pan does it for his, and that is to create a construction box, and fill in the rest of the drawings throughout the box, as the box gives a much clearer indication how big you can expect with your drawing, even though my current one is wrong. Shorcuts like “centrelines” or “centremark” has saved me so much time. Its amazing how there’s always something to learn when you think you are a master of it :) Furthermore, the dimensions this week are 100% accurate in terms of putting it 0.0000000 decimal wise, as I have figured that by pressing “f8″ it activated the ortho mode on, which means that lines are vertically or horizontally straight, which solved the issue that I had for last week exercise.

I also believe that what I have drawn for the full section right view is a bit wrong in terms of the placements from having a close look into what others have done.

Overall, this exercise was pretty straightforward once I get going with the basics. It may seem really complicated in the beginning, but it was a fun exercise, maybe it was because I had helped from my friends as they have suggested things that I should do, and mistakes that I have make and how to fix it without giving me the answer to them, so I have to find the answer myself.

Next week is the photoshop exercise, I do not know if I am looking forward to this one :)

Week 4 Studio Tutorial - Drawing with CAD

OOOPSSS. I have used the wrong color (yellow - construction lines) instead of the red that represents outlines.

Hence, I have changed the colors to red to fix the minor issue. By the way, here’s my progress view for top view and right side view.

Anyways, I have started inserted the title of “THE TOP VIEW” into the drawings, as well as I have drew the front view. (note: When creating your title, it must be CAPITALIZED.)

You might be thinking.... that right side view is wrong and is in the wrong location. YOU’RE RIGHT :) Hence, I have allocated the right side view next to the front side view as it makes more sense from an engineering drawing perspective. Furthermore, I have started inserted construction lines, but the gaps are way too big. I have also inserted centre lines, which are marked with the color of cyan. Lastly, this is an overview of the progress for the right side view.

AFTER COUNTLESS SEARCH THROUGH THE FORUM, I have finally found the solution to shrink the gap of the dash lines from 1 to 0.2. It was pretty easy, as I double click the lines to see its property, and on the line type spacing, I just need to decrease the value, and TADAAA, the lines spacing are much smaller.

Adding dimensions into the Front side view of the drawing.

Adding dimensions into the top view of the drawing.

Here comes the challenging part. THE RIGHT SIDE VIEW! I was having trouble trimming the outer circle, and creating tangent lines that blends seamlessly into the outer circle.

After watching some tutorials from Youtube, Lynda, and forum, I have finally found solutions to these problems.

Hence, to the final step, I have added dimensions into the right side view drawing.

Here is the look into the overall views of the drawings. It looks like a piece of art :P.

NOTE: For this week blog, I want to experiment a more casual blogging style :).

During the lecture tutorial on Wednesday, Mr. Rob has mentioned of the students that demonstrated a good written piece and structural pieces of reflections. After seeing their posts, I felt like I could be better. I think now its the time to up my game by being more... creative? ... more structural? ... more myself? I think the personality of my blog will be unveil as time goes. To think of it, I am pretty curious the development of this blog from my first year to the year that I graduate... if I can make it through...

This week marks the divorce between me and hand drawings. Through the process of doing CAD drawings, I have started to miss doing the hand drawings because I felt like I have control over what I am drawing, rather than having to rely on the system/software itself. However, through the process, I also started to develop feelings to AutoCad LT. It became a love, and hate relationship between hand drawings and AutoCad LT.

There is a saying “time will heal everything.” (You’re going off topic) Right.., anyways, back to the topic, this week’s tutorial was pretty challenging as I am a novice to the Autocad software, so I had no idea what i was doing, and where everything is. The tutorials in Lynda were helpful in some aspects, but the person who does the talking speaks slowly, that I had to put it in 1.25 or 1.5x faster to not make myself fall asleep. However, I find the forum in Autocad really helpful, as I do most of my research for this tutorial on the forum. You should check it out :)

The hard part about this tutorial comes from the trimming of the circle and getting the tangents of a line to the circle, as well as dimensions. Although it does the work automatically for you for the dimensions, they also point out some of the flaws that I have for my drawings. For example, when I am measuring some of the lengths and widths of my drawings, the decimal points of 0.0000 would show that its not exactly a whole number, which led to inaccurate drawings throughout 3 of my perspectives. Furthermore, when I am constructing the construction lines, I would often find that the outlines and construction lines don’t perfectly match into one line when zoomed in closely. This is something that I need to work on for future tutorials to make sure I don’t make those mistakes in important projects and designs that I will be doing in the future. In the beginning, everything in Autocad LT was confusing, and I don’t know what to do, where to start, but however as time progresses, I am starting to understand how each icon in the Autocad Home tab works, and it began to be more enjoyable to work on for this tutorial. I feel like this has become an essay, so I better sum up or else it becomes too much reading for those who are reading my blog ;) You’re welcome.

Overall, the tutorial activity in CAD was challenging, but it has taught me a lot of things. I am grateful for the support by the teachers in this course, from the personal Autocad workshop with Will the tutor, to having one on one mini sessions with the other tutors. There are still many areas that I still need to work on, like creating precise measurements in the drawings. I also need to finish watching the tutorial videos in Lynda, and as well doing more out of class experimentation with AutoCad to further enhance my knowledge in the software itself. Looking forward to the next tutorial activity! Cheers :)

Week 3 Studio Tutorial - Cross Sections and Dimensions

Progress of Top view, and the implementation of the simple border of 10mm for all sides listed in Table 1.5 of the Engineering Drawing Textbook.

Finished drawing of Top View.

Progress of the bottom view.

My initial placement for the section view A-A. However, my partner at the table suggested that it would be better and more efficient to place the sectional view between the top and bottom view, as its easier for me to understand what I am doing and Where I am looking for.

Hence, I moved the sectional view to where he suggested, but another problem popped up. That is the sectional view is not the sectional view of the product. That problem was pointed out by Will the tutor.

Therefore, both me and my partner had to restart the sectional view again.

We finally understand what a sectional view may look like from the product that we are doing for this studio tutorial. This is the progress of the section view A-A.

Progress of Section view A-A.

Progress of Section View A-A. Implementing the hatching lines to indicate where along the product is cut.

The hatching lines that I drew was not inconsistent. This was later taught by Rob, and Will on the techniques and methods to achieve consistency for our hatching lines. Will’s method was using the set squares, where there’s a little indent for where it stopped the pen ink from leaking, is a reference guide to achieving consistent lines. On the other hand, Rob suggested by using set squares, the measurements line that goes down, you could measure how big is the gap for the hatching lines to create consistent lines throughout.

Progress of the right side view of the product. Furthermore, I forgot to complete the hatching lines for the lower half of the product. Oops.

Filling in what I have missed out.

Here’s the finished product of all the views, labels, and hatching lines. Sorry for the poor camera quality, as you couldn’t see clearly for the right side and top view. Sorry! ANYWAYS....

For this studio tutorial, I feel really proud of myself. The reason is because compared to other studio tutorials I have done this past few weeks, I am starting to breeze through what the studio tutorial asked for. I am starting to understand some of the terms through the reading that I have done, and I utilized my time well as I know what I am doing for this tutorial studio. There are still some aspects that I still need to work on for the future, and that includes fixing the consistency of my hatching lines. I still need to work on the arrows that are on the labels, and the placement of the measurements too. I also need to do some further/re-reading for some of the chapters in the textbook, for example chapter 6 and 7 to further understand the perspective we are drawing in. One plus side though, for this studio tutorial, my layout of my drawings are much more efficient, cohesive, and more organized compared to what I have done last week, and that makes it much easier for me to do other perspective drawings, and its easier for me and to the others to understand the drawings that I have done. Personally, I enjoyed doing this exercise. It was fun, there’s things to learn from this activity, and in the end, I have achieved a drawing that demonstrates my improvements from the previous weeks of engineering exercises that I have done.

Week 2 - Engineering Drawing Blog

Firstly, the beginning of the process of this task was really confusing. There were new terms like drawing through orthogonal drawing, and an auxiliary drawing. In picture 1 and 2, initially I thought I know what I was doing, but later on, I was stuck, and the reason was because I didn’t draw the top view of the part 1 which was responsible for all the confusion that I had for the past hour and a half of not understanding what I was doing. Hence, I decided to restart with a new sheet of paper (as seen in picture 3) This time, I allowed space so I could fit a top view of the object in my technical drawing. I started from the side (right side) drawing, and I placed it on the right side of the paper. Picture 4 shows the completed orthogonal drawing for the side of the object. Picture 5 and picture 6 shows the progress and completed orthogonal drawing for the front side of the object. A problem occurred in picture 6, when I am attempting to draw the auxiliary drawing of the object and I didn’t noticed till Max pointed it out. Hence, I have decided to fix the problem by making what was available during that moment. The result is that the correct auxiliary and the side orthogonal drawing is the one that is towards the left of the paper (inner). Finally, I outline the labels with black ink tip pen, as well as the outlines of the One thing that I enjoy when I was working in this tutorial was the engagement with the drawing equipment. I love using them, as it helps me understand the tools that I work with more and more. If I were to work on this again at another time, I would definitely be more aware when I am doing each step to avoid the mistakes that I had today. Another would be for these kinds of activities, its important for me to keep revisiting the Engineering Drawing textbook to keep revising the technical terms, and symbols, as well as the ways to draw these kinds of technical drawings, so that the result for my next would be more efficient and more concise.

Working progress of part 1.

Working progress of part 1: Tracing with black ink tip pen.

This is the completed work of part 1. In this part, there have been some mistakes due to inexperience with the tools. Firstly, the spacing of 8 mm is not consistent throughout this piece, due to the lack of experience with the compass. The circle dimensions does not match with what was written in the paper, which was 100 mm. That led to the triangles not properly meeting the points at 45 degrees. Luckily, Mr. Gonzalo has taught me how to level between the tip and the pencil to be even for my compass. Secondly, I lacked experience with using the ink tip pen, as for example, you can see that there are blobs on the top right of the triangle. That is because, I have left the pen in one place for a long time. Another is the ink pen leaked elsewhere outside the wanted lines was because I didn’t know how to use the setsquares properly. That was later taught by Mr. Rob that there are two sides of the setsquares, where one side is used for pencil tracing, and the other side is used for ink pen tracing.

Working progress of part 2.

Working progress of part 2 using circle templates.

In part 2, most of the problems that I have faced in part 1 is now fixed. The dimensions and spacing for this piece is more concise and accurate. There aren’t any problems with using the black ink tip pen. I am getting the hang of it.

Working progress of part 3: Noticed that there are two parallel lines in relatively proximity to each other. I measured wrongly for the side length as it was 20 mm instead of 30 mm.