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AutoCAD: 3D Architectural Modeling

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Overview

Take your drawings from 2D to 3D with AutoCAD. Learn how to model a building, complete with doors, windows, staircases, roofs, and surrounding terrain.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Explore 3D architectural modeling in AutoCAD
  • What you should know
1. Clean Up 2D Drawings
  • Bring the project data together
  • Arrange elevations around the plan
  • Arrange sections adjacent to elevations
  • Delete layers, clean up, and purge
2. Model the Ground Floor
  • Set up property filters for 2D and 3D layers
  • Create closed polylines with boundaries
  • Navigate in 3D
  • Rotate objects in 3D
  • Realign elevations and sections in 3D
  • Extrude closed polyline walls
  • Build sills and headers
  • Extrude interior partitions
  • Extrude, presspull, and union headers
  • Model curved headers
  • Move the ceiling using a point filter
  • Build the slab on grade
3. Model Doors, Windows, and Stairs
  • Model doors with glazing
  • Copy doors around the model
  • Sketch window detail in place
  • Model a window
  • Copy window groups
  • Join and extrude stair profiles
  • Subobject manipulation
  • Model stairs from plans
  • Thicken stair object with Booleans
  • Build a handrail that follows a 3D path
  • Support the handrail
4. Model Terrain Surfaces
  • Shape a courtyard as a NURBS surface
  • Sculpt a sloping terrain
  • Trim a surface with other surfaces
  • Slice topographic contour lines
  • Loft a surface between contours
5. Model the Second Floor
  • Copy the ceiling to create a new floor
  • Extrude a walkway
  • Extrude the second floor walls
  • Fill in voids in slabs and walls
  • Remove unwanted volume from walls
  • Sketch roof plans in wireframe
  • Duplicate a wireframe for later reuse
  • Create door headers
  • Perform a Boolean subtraction
6. Complete the Second Floor and Roof
  • Build interior partitions
  • Cut window openings
  • Create custom windows
  • Cut standard openings in courtyard walls
  • Cut small openings in courtyard walls
  • Copy windows around the second floor
  • Build roof surfaces
  • Subtract the tower volume from the roof
  • Sculpt solids from regions and surfaces
7. Model the Tower
  • Build the tower walls
  • Cut the wraparound walls down
  • Construct the first wraparound roof
  • Fill in walls under the roof
  • Make a wraparound roof with 3D poly objects
  • Fill in missing wall volume
  • Extend walls to meet the roof
  • Cut notches for clerestory windows
  • Build clerestory windows
  • Model the tower walls
  • Shell the tower
  • Extrude the roof along a path
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Scott Onstott

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