Schedule

The tentative schedule for the course is as follows:

Date 		      	Mondays 		   	Wednesdays  




3/28  - 3/30  		Introduction to AutoCAD		Basic drawing skills
			Lecture		   		Lecture


4/4 -  4/6		Planning & Organizing		Drawing Elements: Using 
                        the drawing: What goes 		more advanced elements. 
                        into a CEE drawing? 		Editing and construction
					   		Lecture 


4/11 - 4/13 		2D drawings of 3D 		Dimensioning, annotating
                        structures      		and using Blocks        
		   					Lecture 


4/18 - 4/20 		Intro. to Land Desktop  	Viewports,Templates and  
							Xrefs
			Lecture		  		Lecture 


4/25 - 4/27		AutoLISP			AutoLISP / Intro. to Land Desktop      
					                        


5/2 - 5/4		Organizing AutoCAD Drawings	Drawing 3D Surfaces          
			Lecture	 			Lecture


5/9 - 5/11 		Revision			Civil Design 
					   		Lecture


5/16 - 5/18 		Civil Design   			No Class 
			Lecture		


5/23 - 5/25 		Review 				Guest Lecture           

The tentative schedule for the lab sessions is as follows:

Date		      Thu 		   		Homeworks 

3/31		Setting up a new drawing. 		HW1 assigned (Group work: Single submisssion per group)   
		Defining layers, set snap & grid		                    
		Drawing basic shapes. Model 		                      
		space, paper space and scaling.	
		Template file			   	HW 1
		Resource file			   	
		You do not have to turn in the problems 
		in the resource file. 
		We will solve them in class.				   	


4/7		Object generation, object editing	HW1 
		and construction techniques. 
		Project guidelines
		Van Nuys Holiday Inn 
		Resource file 2 


4/14		Discuss Project Ideas			HW1 due today[Submit]
							HW2 assigned (Group work: Single submission per group)   
							HW 2
							Figure 2
							Various Drawing files for Drawing#4


4/21		Blocks and dimensioning 		HW2
		block, wblock, dim*	


4/28		Adding multiple views	  		HW2 due today[Submit]
		sections. 		                
      


5/5		Drawing typical CEE details		Take-Home assigned (Individual Submissions: NO GROUP WORK)
		Project Midterm presentation 		Project abstracts due 	


5/12		Introducing Land Desktop 		Take-Home due today (Hard Copy)[Submit]
		Lab/HW3					HW3 assigned 


5/19		Placing a path/footprint on a 3D 	HW3 due (Hard Copy: Group work: Single submisssion per group)
		surface using Civil Design		HW4 assigned		
 


5/26		Project Work 				HW4 due (Hard Copy: Group work: Single submisssion per group)   



5/- 		Final Exam (please keep all day free) 		     
5/-		Projects Due                 
5/-		Project Demos