CAD drawings 

"Guide" was another drawing that I actually really enjoyed doing, I had a really hard time at the beginning of CAD II with drawing the isometric views. It was really until towards the end of this class that it finally started clicking with me on what to do. 

The "Rocker Arm" was very challenging for me at first. I was trying to get the hang of using fillets and circles at this point. Once I figured out how useful the fillet tool really is this drawing was very simple to correct. This drawing taught me to take my time and go back over everything multiple times before turning things in. 

Drawings from Machine Drafting and Design drawings  

The "Operating Valve" was one that I had a hard time with at first, I was struggling to figure out what the section views would look like. When I understood that all three sections were shown in the circle, and I had to just go layer by layer for each section view it was really simple. I found sections were my favorite thing to draft in this class, as I feel that they're very useful to show interior features of a part. 

The "Rocker Arm" was a little challenging at first, I wasn't exactly sure how to fit the broken out and revolved sections. My instructor Brett was able to explain this very well to me so I could understand it better. Overall, I feel like I got good experience and knowledge with these kinds of section views.  

The "The Oil retainer" taught me how to do an aligned section view, which are really helpful for circular objects this helps shows details that would appear to be shortened in a regular section view. 

The "Bearing" was the first section view we drafted, this really showed me how important section views are and how much hidden detail they can show. I did struggle understanding the concept at first but after Brett gave us a lecture it was pretty cut and dry. The thing I was struggling with was where the hatchings were supposed to go and why there were supposed to go there. 

Advanced AutoCAD drawings

The "Rod Support" was the first drawing of the class where I felt like I really knew was I was doing. With this drawing every step just made sense and had felt like I had been doing it all my life. This design is simple, but it was a great starting point for me. 

The "Step-Cone Pulley" was one of the section view drawings we did in Advanced AutoCAD where we used AutoCAD's 3d software. I found CAD's 3d software to be a little hard to use and not very user-friendly. Once I figured out how to use it properly, I found it easier than I thought. 

The "Clamp Slide" was a fun drawing to do, a lot of the 3D drawings were really fun to do even though the software is a little tricky. My biggest headache with this drawing was trying to get the top right, I couldn't get the right thickness but after asking a couple of my classmates I realized I had to use the subtract tool to get it to that thickness. 

The "Tool Holder" was challenging at first trying to subtract the holes without subtracting all of them, I overcame this by switching my order of operations with subtracting and extruding the circles. This drawing is one of my favorites that we did during the class. I really liked the overall look of how it came out. 

The "Control Block" was by far the most challenging drawing out of this class. I was having such a hard time getting everything lined up like it needed to be. The two circles on the base were very finicky but after trial and error I was able to get it figured out.  This ended up being my favorite drawing because of how good it felt to finish it. 

Arch Drafting & Design

This is the first simple floor plan I drew for this class, it's for a shed. I learned a lot from this class. The thing I learned from this assignment were true sizes for 2x4s and 2x6s. Using the offset command made this assignment a lot easier. 

This was my first elevation drawing that I've done. This is the front and back elevation of the shed. This was challenging at first, I was over thinking what I was doing but my instructor was able to help me understand better. I really liked how this turned out and found the process fun after I figured out what I was doing, 

Here are the side elevations of the shed, What I learned from doing these were how to accurately do roof pitch, which was a lot simpler than I thought it would be. Understanding the process of doing an elevation is crucial to a drawing, and I think I have a very good understanding of how to do these now. 

Here is my first-floor plan of a house, what is shown in this drawing is the main floor of the house. This was a lot more challenging than I thought it was going to be. I did have a lot of fun doing this, the whole process of getting the floor plan to this was really fun to do. I think this is one of my favorite things I've done since being in school at WSU tech. 

This is the last floor plan I drew in CAD, Jeremy kind of left us to our devices on this one and I feel like I did a really good job doing this on my way. I was able to pick from a bunch of different floor plans from the book to do and this is the one I went with; it was a fun plan to draw. 

Revit house 

Here is my first house designed in Revit, Revit is an amazing program capable of so many things and I found it very fun to work with. I enjoyed working with Revit more than I did CAD, there is a very sharp learning curve as there are so many things you can inside of Revit. My teacher was helpful throughout the entire process and really taught me how to utilize this program. This made me even more sure that architecture was the right fit for me as I love all the customizing you can do inside this program, and I look forward to using it more in the future. 

Office building in Revit 

This is an office building I did in Revit, it was a lot different and a little more tedious than the house was since the floors all just copy and paste for the most part. 

Chief Architect 

This is the first house I did using chief architect, I really enjoy using chief and feel it has more to offer than other programs. Doing this house really got me a good understanding of how the program works

Custom house in chief 

This was a custom house I designed from the specefications my "client" wanted all needs were met and I am very happy with how this turned out

Tiny home