Introduction
In this Assignment you are to develop a set of office procedures within
your team to enhance the productivity of your own "office".
You are to prepare a set of BLOG entries and a WEBSITE which should document the
office procedures developed to enable you to collaborate with your partner(s), document the modelling process, and display
the final rendered images produced in Assignment One.
This will most likely mean that you will have to work
hard on developing documentation systems and BLOGGING about them from the start of the modelling process. You will also in the SUMMARY WEB PAGE PROCESS develop links between pages so that
people can always find out more by selecting a link to further data,
and that people can always get back to the starting point, no matter
which page they are on. Remember that this assignment is mostly about the ways in which you organise this information,
so you will need to be diligent with your BLOG entries from the outset.
Useful Links:
- Approvals and Discussion related to making the model - LINK Google Groups Digital Craft.
- Uploading your model files, your renders and documentation of your office procedures - LINK to digital-craft-render3d blog
- SUMMARY web page bringing all this together - LINK to Digital Craft 2007 output Web site
Objectives
The Assignment provides you with opportunity to demonstrate your learned
abilities to:
- understand and develop the basic skills required in
organising and sharing information with the computer.
- practise these skills on a well-understood project.
- understand the means of production of web pages and
how they might be used to facilitate the organisation and exchange
of information in a CAD office;
- understand the basics of web design and creation.
Process
You are to develop a system for documenting your own
in-house drawing office procedures which will be documented on the web
in your personal web log (BLOG), and which will enable you to share and exchange
information with the other people in your office team. You are to develop
for your office a set of filing, backup, modelling, drawing rendering
and automation procedures which will enable you to be in control of:
- presenting your and your partner's work in what appears
primarily to the visitor to the web site as a coherent analysis of
the building you model in Assignment
One.
- storing the documentation about each project your office has to
perform for the BBSC303 course (all
three buildings modelled in the introductory tutorials and the
major project);
- storing the names and contact details of each person
who sets the assignments, providing links to all the versions of the drawing files you are developing for Assignment
One, (and describing the changes made at each new generation / version of the model to enhance the value of your backup system);
- describing and showing in graphical form at a
maximum of one week intervals where your modelling process is at;
- providing a link to the completed building model to allow it to
be downloaded;
- providing a representative visual and geometrical analysis
of the building modelled in Assignment
One - this will be primarily through images but should also include
interactive engagement with the building model;
- storing for easy retrieval the office standards and project
standards you have developed in order to work more efficiently (drawing
layer naming conventions, drawing exchange systems, CAD program choice
etc).
- identifying clearly which parts of the 3D model for Assignment One you have constructed and which have been constrcuted by your partner(s)
- analysing the lessons you have learned about light flow in a major space in your building from 'reading' the rendered 'light flow meter' images of your modelling partner.
Requirements
- One web site documenting your Assignment 1 building
- the architect's name, a building description, the model creation
process, the other building models you have created as "practice"
for this modelling, and the associated analyses
- This portion should especially note the books / web sites / other sources of info that you have used to be able to construct your model (email correspondence with the architect's office?).
- Beware using Wikipedia as a SOLE reference because it is transient and potentially has reliability issues - the WAYBACK MACHINE will not always return you to the place (AND TIME!) of your reference on Wikipedia.
- Please reference in full: ISBN numbers, Library of Congress catalogue entries etc; web entries are to be of form URL: http://www.there.info (last accessed then.month.year)
- A report in the form of linked web pages on the office
organisation and project organisation systems developed during BBSC
303 with your partner to handle the Assignment one model creation,
file coordination, backups and naming conventions.
- A report in the form of linked web pages in graphical and written
form that documents which parts of the building each of you constructed
in Assignment One.
- A web site on which each "building project"
you do in this course must be referenced in a way that ensures that
when the project is completed, it will be easy to find and automatically
displayed for others to view when completed.
- You will BLOG as you go the outputs you produce, and use the web site to summarise the blog entries. Judicious use of TAGS will ensure this is a simple process.
- You will use the Google Groups Digital Craft web site and associated web email address to document ALL correspondence about the course and the use of the software - judicious use of THREADS created by the subject line of your email/group entry will enable you to summarise these entries on the SUMMARY web page.
- Updated and archive links to the versions of the CAD
model you are producing in Assignment 1 that when selected will offer
the web browser the option of downloading the drawing or model file
for at most the last two versions, but with documentation of where
the previous backup versions are stored. Again, judicious use of the BLOG will ensure that your summary will find the files you 'back up' to the BLOG.
It is your responsibility to ensure
that your web site functions. Assessment in both assignments will be entirely web-based
from a remote site. It will not be possible for the assessor to look
for data on the assignments in your local directories.. The assessor will not be in the
school.
The Primary location of your hand in will be your taged files inserted in the digital-craft-render3D blog. This, as SUMMARISED BY YOUR WEB SITE is what will be graded.
The file name for the
HOME PAGE of your web site MUST be index.html
The Assignment One approvals material and documentation of who the architect is and where the documentation came from to make the model MUST be in a directory on your web site named building
The root file name for
the building material MUST be index.html
The Assignment One render images and commentary material MUST be in a directory on your web site named renders
The root file name for
the building material MUST be index.html
The Assignment Two material
on how the model was made, the file naming conventions and the links to the building models MUST be in a directory named model_info
The root file name for
the model_info material MUST be index.html
The due date is: - Listed on the timetable
Note: Don't forget the online tutorials if you need help between scheduled tutorials.
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