Hi All,
If you need to share a Fusion 360 File, for troubleshooting for example, you can do so by sharing a public link, as described in this tutorial:
Kind regards
Russell and Kate
Thursday, April 23, 2020
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Free Photoshop and Illustrator
Hi All,
We've just been made aware that Adobe Creative Cloud is is temporary available for student personal device installation:
https://www.myit.unsw.edu.au/software-students
Hope this helps.
Regards
Russell and Kate
We've just been made aware that Adobe Creative Cloud is is temporary available for student personal device installation:
https://www.myit.unsw.edu.au/software-students
Hope this helps.
Regards
Russell and Kate
Recording your presentation using PowerPoint
Hi All,
Here is a great video showing you how to record your video presentation in PowerPoint and then save it as a MPEG-4 to upload to Youtube:
To upload a video to Youtube follow this tutorial:
Then to embed the video in your blog (I have always done it the second way he describes and found it works well):
Regards
Russell
Here is a great video showing you how to record your video presentation in PowerPoint and then save it as a MPEG-4 to upload to Youtube:
To upload a video to Youtube follow this tutorial:
Then to embed the video in your blog (I have always done it the second way he describes and found it works well):
Regards
Russell
Monday, April 20, 2020
Blogger Image Error and Backing Up you Data
Hi All,
Some of you might have noticed that some of the images you have posted are not showing, a large minus sign is appearing instead.
The technical team at Blogger are aware of the problem and are working towards a solution.
EDIT: Casandra from Daniel Falzon's tutorial group beat them to it:
When you are uploading images to your blog make sure you do so from your local computer, rather than copying a URL from cloud storage (that way, if you shift or delete the image from your local drive or cloud storage it won't disappear from your blog).
Also, you should always make multiple backups of the work you are doing. We use multiple external hard drives and cloud storage (Dropbox, UNSW OneDrive, iCloud, Google Docs, etc) as well as saving things on the local machine. This way, if any one device or network was to fail we can easily retrieve the data from another location.
Backing up physical drawings and models with scans and photos is also really important. Take multiple shots of models and make sure your photos of images would allow them to be reproduced well (blurry or shadowed photos are no good if the dog eats the originals).
Regards
Russell and Kate
Some of you might have noticed that some of the images you have posted are not showing, a large minus sign is appearing instead.
The technical team at Blogger are aware of the problem and are working towards a solution.
EDIT: Casandra from Daniel Falzon's tutorial group beat them to it:
When you are uploading images to your blog make sure you do so from your local computer, rather than copying a URL from cloud storage (that way, if you shift or delete the image from your local drive or cloud storage it won't disappear from your blog).
Also, you should always make multiple backups of the work you are doing. We use multiple external hard drives and cloud storage (Dropbox, UNSW OneDrive, iCloud, Google Docs, etc) as well as saving things on the local machine. This way, if any one device or network was to fail we can easily retrieve the data from another location.
Backing up physical drawings and models with scans and photos is also really important. Take multiple shots of models and make sure your photos of images would allow them to be reproduced well (blurry or shadowed photos are no good if the dog eats the originals).
Regards
Russell and Kate
Monday, April 6, 2020
Student Blogs
Hi All,
Your blogs are important for a few different reasons: they help you to communicate with your tutor, to share your work with other students in your tutorial group, to test out the quality of your work BEFORE your final submissions and it will be marked as an outcome itself (so showing process work leading up to your final submissions is also important ... don't worry if your development/working models, sketches, etc are rough you'll get marks for your blog by showing us the whole process).
For reference and inspiration, below are some links to some good student blogs so far:
From Nic Snowden's group: Muhammad Arriff Danial
From Daniel Connel's group: Vicki Chen
From Jack Beasley's group: Sydney Vasin
From Daniel Falzon's group: Alyssa Chau
From Ellen Woolley's group: Ada Mo
Regards
Russell and Kate
Your blogs are important for a few different reasons: they help you to communicate with your tutor, to share your work with other students in your tutorial group, to test out the quality of your work BEFORE your final submissions and it will be marked as an outcome itself (so showing process work leading up to your final submissions is also important ... don't worry if your development/working models, sketches, etc are rough you'll get marks for your blog by showing us the whole process).
For reference and inspiration, below are some links to some good student blogs so far:
From Nic Snowden's group: Muhammad Arriff Danial
From Daniel Connel's group: Vicki Chen
From Jack Beasley's group: Sydney Vasin
From Daniel Falzon's group: Alyssa Chau
From Ellen Woolley's group: Ada Mo
Regards
Russell and Kate
Photoshop Materials Collage
Hi All,
Below are two video tutorials to help you add materials to the photographs of your physical sketch models.
In this video the designer adds materials to a cube he rendered from Revit, but it without any textures or detail it looks just like a paper model. The best tip here was placing the base image (in your case it would be the photo of your sketch model) on top of all the subsequent layers and setting the layer mode to multiply.
This video the designer steps through some techniques for using masks and linking layers in a similar way to our earlier composite image tutorials, but there are some great workflow enhancements:
And finally, one place to find 2d textures of materials (that are tileable so that they blend seamlessly from one to the other) is www.textures.com
Some great skills to be learned here, enjoy!
Russell and Kate
Below are two video tutorials to help you add materials to the photographs of your physical sketch models.
In this video the designer adds materials to a cube he rendered from Revit, but it without any textures or detail it looks just like a paper model. The best tip here was placing the base image (in your case it would be the photo of your sketch model) on top of all the subsequent layers and setting the layer mode to multiply.
This video the designer steps through some techniques for using masks and linking layers in a similar way to our earlier composite image tutorials, but there are some great workflow enhancements:
And finally, one place to find 2d textures of materials (that are tileable so that they blend seamlessly from one to the other) is www.textures.com
Some great skills to be learned here, enjoy!
Russell and Kate
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Sketch Model of Your Room
Hi All,
One of your classmates, Jatin Midha, summarised the Week 5 task of "making a better version of your room", really well ... he said:
Looking back to the Studio Activities Week 5 (to be completed at home) on Moodle this is one of the videos he is referring to:
The Studio Activities Week 5 links to more of the videos Jatin is referring to here: http://foldingtechniques.com/folding-techniques
We should be able to see evidence of these techniques applied to the model of your room. For example, in one model you might use the concentric scoring technique to create a new surface that joins a wall to the ceiling. In a second sketch model you might create a set of "masu" boxes to suggest storage shelves or a library. Making a better version of your room doesn't have to be strictly functional though ... some of your folding showcases could be simply to create a more exciting space.
If you are finding the 1:10 scale difficult with respect to the cardboard or paper you have to hand, you might change scales ... but communicate your justification for this on the blog post which has your sketch models.
If you have other flat/sheet materials available feel free to try these folding techniques on them. The Week 5 lecture is worth looking at again to show you how common household items can be reused as model making materials.
Remember to take plenty of photos and upload them to your blog. Adding human figures and other editing in Photoshop could also help communicate your folding showcase, utilising skills you already have.
Regards
Kate and Russell
One of your classmates, Jatin Midha, summarised the Week 5 task of "making a better version of your room", really well ... he said:
We "improve/add/change elements of our room to showcase the folding techniques we learned through the videos".
Looking back to the Studio Activities Week 5 (to be completed at home) on Moodle this is one of the videos he is referring to:
The Studio Activities Week 5 links to more of the videos Jatin is referring to here: http://foldingtechniques.com/folding-techniques
We should be able to see evidence of these techniques applied to the model of your room. For example, in one model you might use the concentric scoring technique to create a new surface that joins a wall to the ceiling. In a second sketch model you might create a set of "masu" boxes to suggest storage shelves or a library. Making a better version of your room doesn't have to be strictly functional though ... some of your folding showcases could be simply to create a more exciting space.
If you are finding the 1:10 scale difficult with respect to the cardboard or paper you have to hand, you might change scales ... but communicate your justification for this on the blog post which has your sketch models.
If you have other flat/sheet materials available feel free to try these folding techniques on them. The Week 5 lecture is worth looking at again to show you how common household items can be reused as model making materials.
Remember to take plenty of photos and upload them to your blog. Adding human figures and other editing in Photoshop could also help communicate your folding showcase, utilising skills you already have.
Regards
Kate and Russell
Monday, March 23, 2020
Paper folding technique for Fusion 360 model
Hi All,
As you know, our initial intention was that you would laser cut your 2.5d Fusion 360 models from 3mm plywood. We are still having you go through the process of creating those files, ready to be laser cut, and now you'll just submit the file for assessment. These are important skills for the future.
Looking ahead to Week 7, you'll create a physical paper model based on your Fusion 360 model of a Transition Space. But instead of using the same tongue and groove technique that works well with 3mm thick plywood you'll use the unfolding technique shown below because it works much better with the paper you have access to in your drawing kit:
Regards
Russell and Kate
As you know, our initial intention was that you would laser cut your 2.5d Fusion 360 models from 3mm plywood. We are still having you go through the process of creating those files, ready to be laser cut, and now you'll just submit the file for assessment. These are important skills for the future.
Looking ahead to Week 7, you'll create a physical paper model based on your Fusion 360 model of a Transition Space. But instead of using the same tongue and groove technique that works well with 3mm thick plywood you'll use the unfolding technique shown below because it works much better with the paper you have access to in your drawing kit:
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| A simple house |
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| An Alfa Romeo race car |
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| Google Cardboard VR headset |
Russell and Kate
Sketch Models
Some inspiration for paper and card Sketch Models ... with key words to Spark your imagination:
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| Iterative |
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| Precise |
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| Translucent |
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| Human Figure (Yas Lab) |
Transformation (Yas Lab)
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| Shadow |
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| Human Scale |
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| Rough |
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| Drawing in 3d |
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Stitching your background images together in Photoshop
Hi All,
Below is some inspiration for how you might stitch your 5 seperate background images together in Photoshop. While our original expectation was the 5 seperate images would come together reasonably seamlessly ... the different approaches illustrated below might be helpful to some groups.
Kind regards
Russell and Kate
Below is some inspiration for how you might stitch your 5 seperate background images together in Photoshop. While our original expectation was the 5 seperate images would come together reasonably seamlessly ... the different approaches illustrated below might be helpful to some groups.
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| David Hockney |
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| David Hockney |
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| Gordon Matta-Clark: Conic Intersect |
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| Gordon Matta-Clark: Splitting |
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| Gordon Matta-Clark: Splitting |
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| Victoria Kovalenko |
Kind regards
Russell and Kate
Unable to log into Blogger
Hi All,
Two students found that they couldn't log into blogger today. It seems that they were using Google accounts that were still associated with their old high school.
If you seem to get into an endless loop where you hit the create blog button and it keeps returning you back to log into your Google account, double check that you aren't still using an old high school account.
Regards
Russell and Kate
Two students found that they couldn't log into blogger today. It seems that they were using Google accounts that were still associated with their old high school.
If you seem to get into an endless loop where you hit the create blog button and it keeps returning you back to log into your Google account, double check that you aren't still using an old high school account.
Regards
Russell and Kate
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Welcome!
Hi Everybody,
Welcome to the course blog for BENV1010: Communication in the Built Environment for 2020. Please bookmark this site because it's your gateway to not only your own blog, but to everyone else's blog in the class. There are about 400 students in the class this year, so we are expecting an incredible amount of work to see and be inspired by!
To the right you'll see a list of your tutors and their blogs, and under each of those you'll see links to their students. Follow those paths to see the work of your fellow students 24/7.
Along with weekly progress updates you'll also be submitting your group and individual assessments via your blog, so makes sure to keep everything very professional.
Kind regards
Russell and Kate
Welcome to the course blog for BENV1010: Communication in the Built Environment for 2020. Please bookmark this site because it's your gateway to not only your own blog, but to everyone else's blog in the class. There are about 400 students in the class this year, so we are expecting an incredible amount of work to see and be inspired by!
To the right you'll see a list of your tutors and their blogs, and under each of those you'll see links to their students. Follow those paths to see the work of your fellow students 24/7.
Along with weekly progress updates you'll also be submitting your group and individual assessments via your blog, so makes sure to keep everything very professional.
Kind regards
Russell and Kate
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