| TA150 Stagecraft for Television,
Film and Theatre San Jose State University Jim Culley Introduction to Computer Aided Drafting for the Theatre using VectorWorks from MiniCad |
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Assignment #1
Draft a letter sized Template that you will reuse for the next drafting assignments. The Template will have a .70 mm border and title block as noted with the following text information. Do not include the dimensions on your template.
This assignment will teach you how to:
Open a new document
- File > New > Create Document > Create Blank Document
> OK
(Note: you will save this assignment as a Template and that Template
will be an option for the next assignment.)
Set page size and orientation
- File > Page setup > Letter & Landscape > OK
Select drafting conventions preferences
- File > Preferences > Document Preferences > Dimensions
> ASME > OK
Set layer options
- Organization > Layer options > Gray Others
Name layer
- Layers > Layers Setup > enter "Border/TitleBlock
" as layer name
| Set scale options - Layers > Layers Setup > chose Scale to get to > Set Scale window > select Engineering 1:1 (Note: you will add new layers, name them and set their scale on the next assignments.) |
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Set grid option
- Page > Set Grid > Choose Snap Grid to 1/4"and
Reference Grid to 1/2".
(Note: The grid will need to be reset for different scales,
for example, for a drawing with 0'-1/4" = 1' 0"scale
the grid would be reset at 6 inches or even 1 foot. If the grid
disappears you may need to reset the grid.
Use the Selection tool (x)
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Use the line tool (2) Note: "Set Thickness" allows you to create new thickness. You may need to add 0.70 mm and 0.35 mm to your list of options. |
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Make line weight selections in the attributes palette
And use the text tool.
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You will need to know how to save your files
to your personal disk and to the class assignment disk.
File > Save as Template
(Note the extension will be .sta
) Name your file JC1Template.sta
and please use your initials , not mine.
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Test Questions:
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