Its been pretty slow going working on the technical drawings. Had a mare with the hatching on CAD looks awful - thinking drawing by hand has a lot going for it.
A tip if you want a b/w pdf of your cad design and are working on coloured layers
go to File
page set up manager and select modify
opens up a dialogue box top left corner plot style table you can choose either monochrome or greyscale press ok
Hi Mari,
ReplyDeleteI agree completely with you about hand drawn work - I reluctantly switched to CAD drawings at this time last year of my degree.
Glad I did though, because you really do need CAD skills - so perservere.
Having said that - I added hand drawn hatching to my CAD drawing after they were printed - for the exhibition...think I got away with it...
probably didn't...
Sue
Thanks Sue - its always the same doing something new - pretty fiddly and slow to begin with. Did you put your planting plans into CAD too?
ReplyDeleteYes, it is a bit fiddly - but I did do my planting plans in CAD and in the end - did all the 1:200 and 1:50 drawing in CAD. Some were what I called at the time a 'hybrid' style - a mix of hand dimensioned, hand coloured, with annotation using Indesign.
ReplyDeleteIt was whatever solution I could use to complete the drawings as quickly and efficiently as my skills would allow. I fiddled around too long with Photoshop and got a bit behind with the technical stuff. I had to catch up pretty quickly... and that almost killed me.
Making lists and timetables worked for me - and quite a few all nighters. I'm glad I did it, because as Grant will tell you - the reward of finishing is the best feeling ever.
You'll be amazed at what you've achieved, and I look forward to seeing all your work.
Sue
Hi Sue thanks your post has given me a bit of a boost as this is the same road i am going down and was wondering if i had made the right choice. So guess I will keep going. Yes looking forward to having a finished product. I guess I will see you at the Master Exhibition. good luck with your work too.
ReplyDeleteCAD is definitely the way to go, there's no point doing it by hand and then making a mistake right at the end. Once its done and saved as a pdf you can then take it to Indesign or Phototshop to text and colour if you need. Remember, a planting plan is only the outline of your garden with a few circles on it joined up by lines. Keep going, not long now...
ReplyDeleteVery good advice Neil... CAD is the way to go most definately... and as I remember you completed your CAD drawings with impressive speed.
ReplyDeleteAll I'm saying for Mari's encouragement is that, for some of us, CAD didn't click quite so quickly and therefore, we have to find method's to speed up the process in order to meet the deadline.
Besides, I finished off most of my drawing by hand to beat the queues at the printers. Mari - please don't leave printing to the last minute...it gets extremely busy at Uni... if you can afford it arrange to get your stuff printed at Mediatek at Hadlow - but make sure you get good quality prints and any of your 'night lighting plans' printed on photographic paper.
You probably know all this anyway.
Good luck.
Sue