MACC Catalog #DDT 227
CIP #15.1301
DATE: November 2014
Moberly Area Community College
Common Syllabus
DDT 227 Architectural CAD III
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Catalog Description:
DDT 227 Architectural CAD III
(2-2-3)
This course is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of the tools, experience
and confidence needed to succeed in a structural consulting engineering firm and/or
architectural/engineering firm as a structural technician. The students will gain an understanding
of proper structural drafting and design techniques involving steel, wood, and concrete.
Prerequisite/Co-requisite: Computer-Aided Design I or Instructor Approval (F)
Text(s): Stine., Residential Design Revit Arch, 2014, SDC Publishers, ISBN: 978-1-58503-6
Other Required Materials: USB Flash Drive
Purpose of Course:
This course was developed in order to provide the student with detailed and systematic
explanations of the tools of AutoCAD Architectural Desktop for creating architectural working
drawings.
Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Create and modify floor plans using the Add Wall and Modify Wall commands.
2. Create and modify wall styles.
3. Create wall cleanup groups, wall endcap styles, and use wall modifiers to modify
properties of walls.
4. Place and modify doors and windows, swing, opening percent, and hinge location.
5. Create and modify door and window styles.
6. Create and modify hip, gable, and gambrel roofs.
7. Create and modify stairs and railings.
8. Insert, create and modify multi-view blocks.
9. Insert break marks, detail marks and interior and exterior elevation marks, leaders and
place dimensions on floor plans.
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Place fire rating lines on walls.
Create match lines, north arrows, datum elevations, and revision clouds.
Create and modify elevations and sections.
Create and modify mass elements.
Create, modify, extrude and revolve an AEC Profile.
Create and modify mass groups.
Create floorplate Slices.
Move mass elements to create a model.
Create and modify spaces and boundaries.
Course Content:
Chapter 1: Introduction to Architectural
Chapter 2: Creating Floor Plans
Chapter 3: Advanced Wall Features
Chapter 4: Space Planning and Mass Modeling
Chapter 5: Placing Doors and Windows
Chapter 6: Door/Window Assemblies and Curtain Walls
Chapter 7: Creating Roofs and Roof Slabs
Chapter 8: Creating Slabs for Floors and Ceilings
Chapter 9: Stairs and Railings
Chapter 10: Using and Creating Symbols
Chapter 11: Annotating and Documenting the Drawing
Chapter 12: Creating Elevations, Sections, and Details
Assessment of Student Learning:
Students are assessed on their active participation in class projects and discussions as a team
along with their ability to work as an individual. Role will be taken during each class session and
student will receive the appropriate grade for participation in group assignments and projects as
well as individual work.
Midterm
Overall class project
Cumulative final exam
20%
50%
20%
200 points
600 points
200 points
Description of Major Assignment(s)/Project(s): Students will be required to complete review
questions at the end of each chapter, the review will be gone over together in class. The students
will also be required to complete assigned tutorials from each chapter and complete a final
project.
Program Assessment
The Drafting Design Technology faculty, continually strive to meet the needs of their
students through program improvements. These improvements are a result of program
assessments and the consultation and advisement of the DDT Advisory Committee. In
addition to the course assessments outlined in this syllabus, the objectives achieved in
this course will also be an integral part of the Drafting Design Technology program
assessment. Students will be assessed on the mastery of course concepts and essential
skills attained in this course at the end of the program.
Instructor Policies:
Academic Dishonesty: MACC board policy is as follows: “Academic dishonesty by
students damages institutional credibility and unfairly jeopardizes honest students;
therefore, it will not be tolerated in any form.” Forms of academic dishonesty include but
are not limited to the following: violations of copyright law, plagiarism, fabrication,
cheating, collusion, and other academic misconduct. Incidents of dishonesty regarding
assignments, examinations, classroom/laboratory activities, and/or the submission of
misleading or false information to the College will be treated seriously. The procedure
for handling academic dishonesty is outlined in the Student Handbook (Policy Handbook
M.010). In cases of alleged academic dishonesty, the burden of proof is on the student,
not on the instructor.
Attendance:
Any student who misses two consecutive weeks of class during a regular sixteen-week
semester or the equivalent proportion of class time during a shorter session will be dropped
from the class by the instructor unless acceptable justification is supplied. Additionally, any
student who misses more than one-fourth of the entire number of in-seat class meetings in a
regular 16-week semester or the equivalent proportion of class time during a shorter session,
may be dropped from that class by the instructor if, in the opinion of the instructor, the
student does not have reasonable opportunity to succeed in the class. A student’s attendance
rate will be calculated based upon the first day of the semester (not the student’s date of
enrollment in the course).
Student attendance must be defined in a different manner for online, hybrid, and virtual
courses. Student attendance in these courses is defined as active participation in the course.
Online, hybrid, and virtual courses will, at a minimum, have weekly mechanisms for student
participation, such as any or all of the following methods:
a. Completion of quizzes or exams
b. Submission of assignments
c. Participation in threaded discussions
d. Communication with the instructor
A student who does not participate in an online, hybrid, or virtual course for two consecutive
weeks will be dropped by the instructor unless acceptable justification is supplied. As with
ground courses, a student’s attendance rate in online courses will also be calculated
based upon the first day of the semester. If a student does not demonstrate active
participation in the online course within the first two weeks (or the equivalent
proportion of class time during a short session), the student will be dropped as “never
attended.” Simply logging into an online class does not constitute active participation.
Students should be aware that their dropping a course and their last date of attendance
in the course may impact their financial aid.
Tardiness: Three tardies will count as one absence. If you must arrive after class begins,
please be courteous of other students by entering quietly and taking the seat nearest the door.
Any daily quizzes that occur during your absence or if you are tardy will not be able to be taken
at a later date.
Make-up and late work: Any daily quizzes that occur during your absence or if you are tardy
will not be able to be taken at a later date. Late work must be handed in during the next class
session.
Extra-credit work: Student is allowed extra credit, up to 20 points but not exceeding 20 points.
College Policies/Procedures:
ADA Statement
Students who have disabilities that qualify under the Americans with
Disabilities Act may register for assistance through the Office of Access
and ADA Services. Students are invited to contact the Access Office to
confidentially discuss disability information, academic accommodations,
appropriate documentation and procedures. For more information, please
call either the Moberly office at (660) 263-4100 x 11240 or the Columbia
office at (573) 234-1067 x 12120, or visit our web page at
http://www.macc.edu/index.php/services/access-office.