Thank you for visiting my blog today. This past month has been quite a busy one with all of the recent school events and projects. However, that hasn't stopped me from going to my mentorship this past January. Although my busy schedule didn't allow me to attend my mentorship as often as I'd hoped, I am still content with what I was able to accomplish during the three times I visited.
During my mentorship this month, I continued working on my First Floor Plan project on the Autodesk AutoCAD program. At first, I found the project quite confusing and cumbersome because I had never tried to recreate a floor plan of this scale before. But with time, persistence, --- and a bit of assistance from the drafters at BERG --- I got the hang of it as well.
The trickiest part for me was finding a way to keep my work organised. It's not enough to just begin drawing all the lines you see. The more lines there are, the more difficult it is to spot your mistakes, especially if you take long breaks from your work after a drafting session --- much like I do after my mentorship.
There are many ways to mitigate this problem. One of the easiest ways to keep your large drafting projects (LDP) organised is to create a layer for a specific type of object. For example, I could create a layer for windows, a layer for furniture, a layer for doors, etc. Furthermore, I could also name those layers, then assign an arbitrary color to a specific layer, thereby "color coating" the objects in said layer. This means that if I assign the color white to the TOILET layer, then whatever objects I draw in that layer will be white. An important thing to note is that you can assign the same color to multiple layers, but it kind of defeats the purpose of keeping your LDP organised.
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