Sri Renugambal college of architecture, Polur

Architectural Drawing 1 (Semester 1, 2013) – Lesson Plan

LECTURE 1 – 19th August 2013

 How to Pin up sheets on the drawing table

 How to align T scale
 How to use set squares
 Title block
 Line weights exercise
o Horizontal
o Vertical
o Grid

LECTURE 2 – 5th September 2013

 Representation in architectural drawing

o Line types
o Plan representation
o Grid lines
o Dimensioning
o Furniture & landscape
o Lettering
o Scale
o Sheet layout & orientation

 Construction of angles
o 60 degrees
o 120 degrees
o 75 degrees
o 15 degrees
o 45 degrees
o 75 degrees

LECTURE 3 – 12th September 2013

 Construction of angles

 Construction of tangents
o Tangent to a circle or an arc
o Drawing an arc tangent to two lines at acute or obtuse angles
o Drawing an arc tangent to a line and through a point
o Drawing an arc tangent an arc and a straight line
o Drawing an arc tangent to two arcs

 Introduction & construction of conic sections

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Architectural Drawing 1 (Semester 1, 2013) – Lesson Plan

o Circle
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Construct a Circle Through Three Given Points
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Construct a circle within a square
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Locate the Center of a Circle or an Arc

o Ellipse
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To find foci of an ellipse
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4 centre method to draw an ellipse
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Parallelogram method to draw an ellipse
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o Hyperbola

o Parabola
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To find focus of given parabola
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The parallel directrix method
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parabola may be described by the equation y=ax 2

 Division of Lines into equal parts

 Bisecting angles

LECTURE 4 – 19th September 2013

 Construction
o Parabola
 Construction of a parabola using a rectangle
 To find focus & directrix

o Rectangular hyperbola
 Construction
 Asymptotes

o Normal and tangents

 Ellipse
 Hyperbola
 Parabola

 Construction of curves
o Cycloid
o Epicycloids
o Hypocycloid
o Involutes

 Construction of polygons

o Construction of any sided polygons

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Architectural Drawing 1 (Semester 1, 2013) – Lesson Plan

 Method 1
 Method 2

o Construction of a square
 Method 1
 Method 2
 Method 3

o Construction of a pentagon
 Method 1
 Method 2

o Construction of a hexagon
 Method 1
 Method 2

o Construction of a heptagon

o Construction of a octagon
 Method 1
 Method 2

LECTURE 5 – 26th September 2013

Plate submission for cycle test 1 marking

LECTURE 6 – 3rd October 2013

 Introduction to multi-view projections

 Multi-view projection of points

o First quadrant
o Second Quadrant
o Third Quadrant
o Fourth Quadrant

LECTURE 7 – 10th October 2013

 Multi-view projection of Lines

o Line perpendicular to HP & parallel to VP
o Line perpendicular to VP & parallel to HP
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Architectural Drawing 1 (Semester 1, 2013) – Lesson Plan

o Line parallel to both HP & VP
o Line inclined to HP & parallel to VP
o Line inclined to VP & parallel to HP
o Line inclined in both HP & VP

LECTURE 8 – 17th October 2013

 Multi-view projection of Planes

o Surface of plane kept perpendicular to HP & parallel to VP

o Surface of plane kept perpendicular to VP & parallel to HP
o Surface of plane kept parallel to both HP & VP
o Surface of plane kept inclined to HP & perpendicular to VP
o Surface of plane kept inclined to VP & perpendicular to HP
o Surface of plane kept inclined in both HP & VP

LECTURE 9 – 24th October 2013

 Multi-view projection of Solids

o Types of solids
 Polyhedra
 Solids of revolution

o Types of projections
 Axis perpendicular to HP & parallel to VP
 Axis perpendicular to VP & parallel to HP
 Axis parallel to both VP & HP
 Axis inclined to HP & parallel to VP
 Axis inclined to VP & parallel to HP
 Axis inclined to both VP & HP

LECTURE 10 – 7th November, 2013

 Section of solids
o Cutting plane perpendicular to HP & parallel to VP
o Cutting plane perpendicular to VP & parallel to HP
o Cutting plane perpendicular to both VP & HP
o Cutting plane inclined to HP & perpendicular to VP
o Cutting plane inclined to VP & perpendicular to HP

LECTURE 11 – 14th November 2013

Plate submission for cycle test 2 marking

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Architectural Drawing 1 (Semester 1, 2013) – Lesson Plan

LECTURE 12 – 21st November 2013

 Isometric view
o Plane view
o Solid view
o Solids of Section view
o Combination of solids view

 Isometric projection
o Plane view
o Solid view
o Solids of Section view
o Combination of solids view

LECTURE 13 – 28st November 2013

 Measured drawing using isometric views

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