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|| In the last drawings, I learned about coordinate planes and plugging coordinates in to create a shape. Though in the last drawing, I added the points using the mouse and only using the keyboard to type the numbers. In this drawing, I had to use only the keyboard and not use the mouse unless I was changing the tool being used. The term for this is called “Key In”. With the two drawings above, I was actually given the shape already on the coordinate plane, I just had to recreate it on my own. For the first shape, I made a table labeling letters A-V and for each letter, there was a X and Y coordinate. I used the “Key In” tool to put these points into the computer, and a line was made from point to point. To do the middle piece, I had to push a button called “Backup”. This button makes it so that you do not get out of the tool that you are using, but you can start from a different place. I then kept going with the steps above for the other three points. For the second drawing, I did the same as above, but instead of letters A-V, it was letters A-X. Another difference is that there are two middle spaces instead of one, but to do this I just used the “Backup” button both times like I mentioned above. The “Backup” tool helped me a lot and will help me throughout this class. It helps you to stay in the tool without getting out completely and have to get back in. Since I am not very far into the book, anything could have been made using this tool. Everything that is made on the computers probably included the use of the tools I used, because they are so simple. A problem I ran into was that sometimes I put in the wrong coordinates and had to go back and re-count the lines to get the right numbers. Also, on the first drawing, the book made a mistake and I did not pick up on it until after I was done. The top line goes over 9 squares, and the bottom line goes over 10 squares, and they were supposed to be equal. I was successful in this drawing because of my previous experiences with coordinate planes, and the lesson in the last drawing. ||  These two drawings had almost nothing to do with what I was learning about in the section. The only real similarity between the two is that they both included the making of triangles. The book wanted to introduce me to the Mesh because I was learning about entity (line) commands. In order to do the first drawing, I had to make eight triangles, or four squares, but with lines, and not the actual square button. You then click one line towards the end and the line intersecting it, towards the vertex. This creates one Mesh Net. I then did this to all eight triangles to create the Mesh on opposite sides. The second drawing was a little more complicated. The trick is to look for triangles. Once you discover the triangles, you just take it apart with your eyes and do one step at a time. If you look at the second drawing, if you mentally draw a line straight down the middle, and straight across, you can see the four triangles used to make up that bottom layer. Then you could do the same thing doing diagonal in both directions to find the four triangles used to make up the top layer. Then I clicked the end of the entity again, and the entity towards the vertex to create the Mesh, and repeated for each triangle. I’m not sure if the Mesh skill will help me in the rest of the class, but it definitely helped me learn to pick drawings apart and look at it in different perspectives. Mesh and Netting is used in many things, like the creation of cartoons. Mesh can be used for character creations. It’s a hard tool to learn but it is really interesting. When doing this assignment, I had a hard time figuring it out. I was often clicking the wrong ends of lines and the Mesh would be in the complete wrong place and I’d have to go back and try again. Learning how to take apart the pictures helped me very much in these drawings because it made it look less complicated. || In the two drawings above, I learned to use the polygon tool. It lets you choose your amount of sides, and then place the polygon on the screen. With the first one, I made a polygon of 6 sides. I then used the book to extend the lines to see where they go. Once all the connecting inner lines were made, I used the trim tool, to cut the lines into the inner shape. This drawing was quite easy. The second drawing was a little harder. I made one square and then another square inside it. I tilted the second square so that the corner of the new square was in between the corners of the first square. I did the same thing with the smaller squares inside. And to finish it off, I placed the circle around it. The polygon tool is really important because it helps form the shapes for you. It is much harder to form the shapes using the simple line tool. The second drawing could be used in real life as maybe the design for a rubber ball. Problems I ran into are that I wasn’t sure how to rotate the squares, I basically played with the buttons until I figured it out on my own. It may not be the correct way, but I was just trying to make it work without getting help. I was successful in these drawings because of my ability to not get frustrated. The second drawing was really hard, because I wasn’t sure what to do, but I eventually figured it out after a few minutes of clicking buttons. Its fun to find new ways to make the designs because then you know more than one way to make them! || This drawing showed to be very complicated. It took a couple days to do, and I had to ask for help on how to start it. To begin, I made a 6’ by 6’ square. I then made all the rest of lines using the parallel line button. All of the lines are not off the the square though, some of them are made of other lines. After all the lines that were needed for the drawing were made, I had to trim out the parts of the line that I didn’t need. This is what took the longest. I had to trim the lines exactly right to get the overlap look, because in reality, no lines are over lapping. The way I trimmed the lines was very important to this drawing because one mistake changes the whole look of the figure. In the last drawing, I was using the polygon tool and working on using shapes together to make another shape. This is important to this drawing because I could have started with two rectangles and not a square. Therefore, there were many ways I could do this drawing, I just used the tool I was most comfortable with (square). I learned a lot about the different types of trimming, like first, second, double and both. They all have different results on the line that I am trimming. This skill is important because when people make things in the real world, all the material is not left on the object when it is sold. Just like cutting something out of paper, you are getting rid of the material that is not needed to make the shape. This drawing was hard for me because the trim command confused me, but now that I have done this drawing, my understanding is more clear. Another problem I ran into was getting the right distance between the lines, which I had to guess and check when it came to the distance for the parallel lines. I was successful in the sense that even though it took me a while to finish, I learned a lot in the commands that I am sure I will need to do more with in the complicated drawings. I had to ask a lot of questions and get a lot of help, but It helped me understand better than I would have if I would have tried to do it myself. ||
 * Assignment A:
 * Assignment A: In the patterns above, I had to use a grid and add points to form a shape. The grid resembles graph paper like you would have in math class. I then made a table of values on a separate piece of paper which is a list of the x and y values for the figure. The X values represented the horizontal lines, and the Y vales represented the vertical lines. After making the table, I then used the line string tool. This tool allows you to make one point and then add another point off of the previous one, and so on. Once I was done doing the outside figure, I clicked backup so that the computer knew that I wasn’t adding any more points. I then took the next step in making a table representing the inside points. I repeated the steps above with the line string tool to finish the drawing. You have to look at the picture as separate pieces. Having the outside shape and all the smaller shapes inside, and you do each shape separately. Knowing the line string tool is very important because everything ever made is created with lines, and this tool makes lines much easier. This skill cannot be used in everyday life of an ordinary person, but for the people that create objects this tool is extremely important. Everything that we have, other than organics, is man made. Someone created the ideas on a computer, as I have done with the drawings above. The image is then given to a computer that can actually create the object due to the drawing made by the person. Therefore, the tool plays a huge role in everyday life, indirectly. A problem I ran into in this project is that a got a couple points wrong in my table, which pout my line in the wrong place and threw off my whole drawing. When you look at it as a whole, you can tell when things don’t look like they should. I went back through my table and found my error and fixed it with no problem. Math really helped me with this project because of the table of values and the knowledge of coordinate planes. Without this skill, I probably would have had a harder time getting the points and I would have had to find a different way to work through the project, or ask for help explaining. Math was very important in this chapter, and after doing it, I learned a lot about the drawing program as well as a place for the math we have learned in earlier years. ||
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The two drawings above were extremely difficult for me! In the practice drawing, I learned about dimensions and how to place dimensions on figures. For the first drawing, I had to make a coordinate plane and only focus on the top left quadrant. I then made a line parallel to the y axis at 2.5’ and at 3.5’. Then I made another two off the same axis at 1’ and 1 1/8. I then made two more parallel lines to the x axis at 2’ and 2 7/8’ and also .5’. These are mostly reference lines, and in fact, most of the lines got trimmed out. I then made an angled line of 30 degrees off of the 3.5’ line, and then did another 30 degree angle off of the 1 1/8’ line. Then, where the lines connected, I had to trim so that it looked like the lines formed a point. I then had to make parallel lines to those angled lines, and trim out the extra lines. The final step was mirroring the image over the axis so that the image looks as a whole picture and not just a corner. Angled lines are important because there are angles in many things in the world. Without the measurement of the angles made, the computer cannot form the object that is desired. Almost everything that is 3D or even 2D on the computer has an angle, therefore lost of things need angled lines. I struggled with this drawing because though the book says the angles are 30 degrees, sometimes its negative and you have to play around with where you want the vertex and what the angle actually is (+,-). I was successful because it showed me how to use the dimension tool and again, that is going to be really important in my later drawings. It also helped me understand what dimensions are used for and why they are so important to include in the figures. In the second drawing I had to make another coordinate plane and only use the top left corner. I made all of the parallel lines that are needed to make all of the angled lines. I then had to do the same thing as above with the angled lines. I again struggled with the angles, and though I am done the figure, I still find the angles hard to do. There really is no set rule for them, you just have to guess and check, and if its wrong, delete it and try again. After I got all of the angled lines connected, I trimmed out the parts of the lines that were not needed. Then I had to do the little rectangle on the inside, and make the lines with the given lengths 1/2 away from the angled line right below it. The hardest thing about these two drawings was the angles. I cannot stress enough how difficult these lines are. I think that the book should have given more lessons on the angles and more practice before these two drawings. I was successful because I didn’t get too stressed out about the angles. I would just delete them and try again with a different number, and repeated that about 1,000 times. When I did get frustrated with the drawings, I asked for help and got my problems fixed with a little better understanding. || The top two drawings do not have any new tips or strategies. All I had to do on the first one is start on the top right hand corner and make all of the lines needed to form the rest of the picture. I then mirrored it over the vertical line, and then mirrored the whole thing over the horizontal line and a whole picture was created. The second drawing was a little harder because I used the wrong corner to start with and it created the wrong picture. I then realized that I had to start from the bottom left hand side of the axis, and there was a lot of trimming of extra lines on this drawing as well. These two drawings were really easy and but had some complicated parts. For the top drawing, I had to make the lines necessary for 1/4 of the drawing and then rotated it 360 degrees to form the whole image. The second one is a little harder. If you look closely, you can see the different sized circular shapes, and so I just made one and since it was already a circle, rotating it actually made more lines and added some flaw to it. || The extruded pictures above were really fun because I got to customize the colors of each and add my own spice to it. With the top one, I had to do half of it and then mirror it over the vertical line to created the mask. Once the lines were created, I extruded the black parts down, and the yellow parts up to make it really look 3D. To change the colors, I just double clicked the face of the shape and found the color I thought was a good fit. The second one was easier to do with points, and I drew the lines using a grid to make the letters of my initials. Once the letters were done, I also made the rectangle behind it. Which in reality is not actually behind it. I just extruded the rectangle back and the letters so that they "pop" out. I then did the same thing with the colors as before and changed the angle of the picture so that you could get a good glimpse of what it looks like. ||
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 *  Assignment G:  The two drawings above were really fun to make. At first, when I tried these, I had no clue on how to do it. Then I went back through the section and figured it out. These drawings are like the last one because they have a lot to do with the dimensions. To make these drawings successful for me, I had to copy the page and fill in the charts for the coordinates. Except, instead of using x and y coordinates, you use the length of the line and the angle. I made the drawings using the polar offset command. This command lets you make a line off of the last line made. You can do this by entering the length of the line and the angle and the command will do it for you. These were fun because it was cool to learn about the different angles and how they work. This tool could be used in real life because I know I would much rather use this tool then make the lines hand made with a grid. It makes the angles much easier to understand and is less complicated then doing it on my own. The only trouble I had was with the angles and finding out which ones to use, but there is a picture in the book of the different angles and shows you how you can determine the degree. I was successful because of the image in the book with the angles, without it, I don’t think these figures would be done right now. If I could more figures using this tool, I would do them for the rest of the year in this class.  ||
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 * Assignment H: The above two drawings were kind of complicated. They move on from regular dimensions in the section above, to dimensions with arcs and circles. If you look at each of these drawings, everything is made of arcs, and looking piece by piece, you could probably figure out how to do it. Though looking at it and figuring it out, and actually doing it, are two completely different things. The dotted lines behind the drawings are guidelines for the picture. It actually makes it easier to place the circles, which in both drawings are the main point. I was introduced to a couple new tools involving circles and arcs, but other than that the tools were basically the same. The only problems I had in this section was that the lines in the second drawing did not line up, but I asked for help, and then learned how to use the stretch tool, which stretches the line. The other problem I had was the red lines, meaning that the dimensions were not right and the distance was not right between the lines. ||
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the bowl, I had to draw just the side with the edges and curves and then clicked a tool that rotated it in 3D, 360 degrees, making it look round. So I did not have to actually make the whole bowl. Then with the chess piece I did the same thing, making one side and then rotating it to make it look round. I rotated these before taking a picture as well because I think that it makes the pictures look more real and gives you a better look on how it actually looks! ||
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 * Along with almost every other picture I have made, these were fun as well. They were really simple too! For
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 * This drawing was very complicated. It took a long time because the exercise and the extra credit challenges were much different. First, I made the bottom block, and placed it at (0,0). Then I placed the top block into the view and figured out where to place it by finding how far away the far corner was from the far corner of the bottom block. After that, I created blocks that were the spaces and then removed the block from the other block, creating a space within the block. It was really confusing and I had to get a lot of help because I had a hard time figuring out where to put the block and how to remove the space. I then dimensioned it and I was done. I think if I could change anything about this drawing, I would change that the exercise drawing didn’t help do the extra credit. The next drawing and the Double Lock (above) were very much alike. I placed the bottom block first and then did the same thing that I did on the double lock placing the top block. I had to keep in mind the dimensions when placing the block because it could come out very wrong, which I did a few times on this drawing. I then created the little block within the top block so that I could remove the space, and though this all sounds really fast and easy, it took me a whole class. These two drawings were really hard and were definitely the hardest ones I did in this class. The only thing I had left to do after was put the dimensions on and I was done. The hard part about that was that it was hard to put the dimensions where they go and you had to do it all in the same viewing window or they would go in the wrong place. The most important thing that I learned was how to take a slot away from another block. ||
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 * Link was fairly easy, all I did was create the block that you see. Then I added the two cylinders into the block and united them so that it was one shape. After that was done I drilled the holes into the cylinders and dimensioned the arcs and lines. The only problem that I had with the drawing was I couldn’t get the cylinders where they were supposed to be and it took me a long while to get them where they went. On the second drawing, it was much different. If you can see, on the top picture between the two lines is the block on top in the bottom picture, so the top picture is just a different view. I made the two blocks that you see in the bottom picture and united them so they were one object. If I was to turn the bottom drawing, you would be able to see the rounded end, with the hole in it. I added the arc and trimmed it to the block. Then united that to the object and drilled the hole as well. I then copied the dimensions from the book and changed the color as well so that I could get rid of any extra lines that would still be green. The hardest part of this drawing was trying to figure out what the top picture was looking at when I saw it in the book, after it was explained to me, it made much more sense! ||
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 * With this picture, I made one very large block. I then made parallel lines to create an L that I could cut to give the block the look it has now. I then did the same thing to create the slots on the top of the block and the bottom of the block. I then used a tool that angles the lines that I had already made. This is where I got the angled lines on the top slot. On the bottom slot, I had to create a angled line at 30 degrees and then trim the rest of the block at that line to create the angles next to the bottom slot. This drawing didn't take me very long but it scared me when I saw it. There are a couple things wrong with this drawing. The top slot is cut at 30 degrees and not 60 degrees, which makes the slot loo much smaller than it should be. The other thing is that the dimensions are a couple points off on some and this could have to do with which viewport I dimensioned in. I think that the book is getting much harder and it is getting more difficult to understand what they are trying to do, but I still really like it and I want to keep working at it! ||
 * With this picture, I made one very large block. I then made parallel lines to create an L that I could cut to give the block the look it has now. I then did the same thing to create the slots on the top of the block and the bottom of the block. I then used a tool that angles the lines that I had already made. This is where I got the angled lines on the top slot. On the bottom slot, I had to create a angled line at 30 degrees and then trim the rest of the block at that line to create the angles next to the bottom slot. This drawing didn't take me very long but it scared me when I saw it. There are a couple things wrong with this drawing. The top slot is cut at 30 degrees and not 60 degrees, which makes the slot loo much smaller than it should be. The other thing is that the dimensions are a couple points off on some and this could have to do with which viewport I dimensioned in. I think that the book is getting much harder and it is getting more difficult to understand what they are trying to do, but I still really like it and I want to keep working at it! ||