Roof Type and Parts

1. Mansard Roof. This type of roof is made up of four slopes, two on each side of the building . The lower slope is more vertical and steeper than the upper slope. The upper  may not been seen from the ground. This type of roof  gives additional living space or storage for the top of the house.

2.Gambrel. This type of roof is fairly similar to Mansard Roof, the basic difference is Gambrel has vertical gable ends and the roof hangs  over the facade of the house

3. Hip Roof.  All four sides of the roof meet at a flat spot or ridge

4. Cross Gabled Roof.  This type of roof  looks  like triangles from the front of the home

5.  Shed Roof. A shed roof pitches up longer on one side than the other.

6. Butterfly Roof A type of roof , which pitches from either side toward the center

7. Intersecting Roof. This type of roof is for irregular shaped buildings

For more types of roofs and roof parts view this  PDF

3D Animation on Google Sketchup

This step by step tutorial is for SketchUp 8

1. Create scenes to build the “skeleton” of your animation.
2. To change the animation settings in the Model Info dialog box,  Window – Model Info – select the Animation panel.
3. Select the Enable Scene Transitions check box to move smoothly from one scene to another scene
4. Enter a transition time for the amount of time you want spent moving between scenes
5. Enter a scene delay time to pause at each scene before moving on to the next one
6. Adjust the proportions of your modeling window to approximate the proportions of your movie

For VIDEO tutorials:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn4jjDV5wVY&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6i_NrzYHzU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw29d-fkD9E&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Blueprint Reading

 Blueprints are 2-dimensional architectural design drawings that indicate the size of a planned building, the materials  required for construction and location of objects and rooms. Architects and engineers use blueprint to communicate to the construction team on how the building needs to be built.

Steps

1. Learn the 3 main types of blueprints: plan, elevation and section. All three types show 2D views of the project

• A plan blue print is a horizontal view of the building project looking down from a birds eyed view.
• An elevation a vertical displace of one side of the building.
• A section view is a cut-through display showing how wall or section of the building be built

2. Know the scale of the blueprint- The two types of scales are architectural scale or engineering scale

3.Understand the symbols used to represent parts of a building project

Tutorials!

http://www.workforceallianceonline.org/el/Blueprints.pdf

http://beyourowncontractortraining.com/trainingplans

http://www.the-house-plans-guide.com/how-to-read-blueprints.html

WordPress Review

Signing up

As many of you know, WordPress is free blogging plat form. To sign up for a free WordPress.com account, you create a blog address you want (this is free, as long as it end with wordpress.com otherwise it is $17 per year to have a .com, .org , .net URL). For most hardcore bloggers domain names are a big deal. WordPress option to purchase a domain name  during the signing up process eliminates the hassle of figuring how and where to register your desired domain name. It is very beneficial that WordPress has the option to select a preferred language, this option makes it very easy to communicate and connect with people from other parts of the world.

Google SketchUP 7 and 8 Review

Google SketchUP is a 3D modelling software that uses “real world units”. The software is available free and paid (the pro version). The paid version has additional options for printing and presentation, as well as a few minor changes in the tool set. The general use of the software is simple- drawing basic shapes and push/pull them in any direction and dimension desire. The 3D features of the program makes moving the working screen in any direction and angle that is perfect for the user. Created objects the user has made or downloaded from the 3D Warehouse can can personalized color and texture, for example transparent effects can be added to objects. The 3D aspect of the program is absolutely amazing but, a user can run into a few issues like other objects in the way of the desired view. Users will notice that they will reach for the orbit tool to get around objects that are in the scene. My opinion: Fairly simple to use, for the price that it retails for (free) the program is amazing! Video tutorials that are found online can help speed the process of learning. The down side of this program is, as more objects and shapes you had to the file, the program seems to lag. When placing lines and shapes beside each other they sometimes get “glued” together, which means that the objects move together. At times this can be very efficient, but sometimes it can become irritating when moving objects around.

1200 sq. ft Bungalow design using google sketchup