ARCHITECT'S RESPONSIBILITIES IN RELATION TO HIS CLIENT

This is the second responsibility of the architect 

The Services of the architect are commissioned based on good relationship and in good faith.

What will the architect's position then?

Aside from gaining popularity, the architect must bear in mind that the responsibilities behind are also as important as it is with their design.

This is where you get your bread and butter. A client who pays you for your professional services must get the best and quality services you have to offer. Once you made your client satisfied, you can never imagine how many more projects waiting for you. This will become a means of your advertisement and promotion, therefore there are certain conditions that you need to take care in carrying out the responsibilities with your client.

What are those things you need to consider? 

Clients have the right to know your responsibilities in a very professional way. They mean business in as much as you mean business. As they come to you, they might want to do something but don't know where to start. These people would like to get a clear picture as to how to get things built with their requirement. It may be a residence, a coffee shop, school or any other type of structure they want to build. They come to you having in their hand a hard earned money.

Sketch it up

The Dubai Metro is one of the best structure that catches your eye. If you love architecture, this will excite you more.

Why not sketch it up? 

Having fun with sketches, this is one of the most enjoyable moment. I want to spend my spare time capturing these structures and post it in my facebook page 3dartrender. I often upload my latest sketches, not as though perfect but I would like to share my skills and at the same know the places that gives more interest in architectural design. 

The image below is the main station point and there are numerous station point to major places in Dubai. There are two zones, the red zone and the green zone. It usually meet up at Gubaiba Station where you have to change zone if you are bound for the green zone.

Another structure is the entrance with the footbridge. To avoid crossing he road, a staircase is covered with the same architectural envelope leading to the other side of the road or the metro.

Here's another sketch of the entrance:

This is a typical design to all footbridges. A major attraction with the best functionality to transport passengers from one station to the other.



Hope you like it.
I will be uploading more sketches. This is part of my exploration to generating and researching architectural design ideas to place I visited starting from Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

Offset tool in Sketchup

Video tutorial 7 - The Editing  Tool - OFFSET TOOL
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Here's another tool commonly used in 3d modeling. The Copy, Move and Scale tool.

1. Video Tutorial   1 - Downloading Free Sketchup

2. Video Tutorial   2 - Getting Started - Choosing a Template 
3. Video Tutorila   3 - The Drawing Tools - LINE TOOLS 
4. Video Tutorial   4 - The Drawing Tools - RECTANGLE OR SQUARE TOOL
5. Video Tutorial   5  - The 3D Creation Tool- FOLLOW ME TOOL
6. Video Tutorials 6  - The Editing Tools - COPY, MOVE AND SCALE TOOL 
7. Video Tutorials 7  - The Editing Tool - OFFSET TOOL (this tutorial)

OFFSET TOOL - This tools is used to offset a surface in any plane. This is useful in creating windows, doors and/or any other furniture which requires an equal distance offset from the border of the plane.

HOW TO USE IT?

Pick the plane that you want to offset, select the offset tool and drag either inner of outer part of the plane you are offsetting. Specify distance as shown on the lower right corner of your screen, type in any value you would want to offset and hit enter. That's it!

Another line will be created along the plane and you can manipulate the two planes created using push/pull tool. Works well with the framing.


That's how you can use this tool.

Please feel free to comment or ask any question if you have question about this tool.

Copy, Move and Scale Tool in Sketchup

Video tutorial 6 - The Editing  Tools - COPY, MOVE AND SCALE TOOL
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Here's another tool commonly used in 3d modeling. The Copy, Move and Scale tool.

1. Video Tutorial   1 - Downloading Free Sketchup

2. Video Tutorial   2 - Getting Started - Choosing a Template 
3. Video Tutorila   3 - The Drawing Tools - LINE TOOLS 
4. Video Tutorial   4 - The Drawing Tools - RECTANGLE OR SQUARE TOOL
5. Video Tutorial   5  - The 3D Creation Tool- FOLLOW ME TOOL
6. Video Tutorials 6  - The Editing Tools - COPY, MOVE AND SCALE TOOL (This tutorial)
7. Video Tutorials 7  - The Editing Tool - OFFSET TOOL 

COPY, MOVE AND SCALE TOOL - These tools are used to edit your drawings. Each of these has it's own function.  The first image is the move tool, the middle image is the rotate tool and the last is the scale tool. The icons are straightforward and easy to remember.

1. COPY TOOL

Once you have done any object, you can copy the entire object using this tool. 

How?

Select the object by picking a point outside the object and drag downward. Then pick the Copy tool,  the object will turn blue when selected. Click the first point of origin and drag to where you want to copy the object.
You can also copy multiple objects by holding the "ctrl" key on your keyboard, the selection tool will show a positive sign. Pick the first point and drag to a distance and pick your second point. Type in any number you want to copy and put x after the number. e.g. 3"x", the "x" value means that you are multiplying your object to 3 at the same distance.

Or you can also divide the distance to a number of times you want to copy by typing " / ". e.g. 3/. The " / " means that you are dividing the distance  by 3. (watch the video tutorial)

2. ROTATE TOOL

The same principle applies to rotate tool, pick the object you want to rotate, the select the rotate tool. An imaginary protractor will appear and it is represented by color. Each color represents that the object you are rotating will be in parallel with the plane, blue, green or red. 

You can also use the rotate tool to copy in an polar array. Once you have selected the object to be copied and rotated, pick the center point and drag at any point along the circumference, either type with " x " for multiple copies or " / " divide the distance being copied to number of times specified.

3. SCALE TOOL

This tool is useful if you want to enlarge the object or reduce the size. Once the object is selected, pick the scale tool and there will be 8 pick points to choose, this is to indicate where will be basis for your object to be enlarged or reduced. Picking at the corner will have a uniform scale, in the middle will scale up or down the object horizontally or vertically.

You can mirror an object by copying first the object and then scale the copied object and drag along the center of the pick-up point. Drag along the middle until the scale factor becomes -1. (You can also type directly -1)

That's how you can use these tools.

Please feel free to comment or ask any question if you have question about this tool.

Choosing a Template

video tutorial 2 - Choosing a Template
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1. Video Tutorial 1 - Downloading Free Sketchup

2. Video Tutorial 2 - Getting Started - Choosing a Template (this tutorial)
3. Video Tutorila 3 - The Drawing Tools - LINE TOOLS
4. Video Tutorial 4 - The Drawing Tools - SQUARE TOOL, ARCS AND CIRCLES
5. Video Tutorial 5 - The Drawing Tools - FOLLOW ME TOOL

6. Video Tutorials 6  - The Editing Tools - COPY, MOVE AND SCALE TOOL
7. Video Tutorials 7  - The Editing Tool - OFFSET TOOL 

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It would be wise to start using a sketchup by choosing the right template for a particular project you are working. The templates relate to the unit set-up of a drawing. If you are working on a large scale project or a small 3d printing layout, it has a corresponding template. This is how user-friendly and easy to use the sketchup is. This will save you a lot of time and effort.

You can follow through this lesson and watch the video above to get you started .


What Template is suitable for you?

There are a lot of templates you can choose from, you can have the choice of having to set up your drawing to english system or metric system. It can also be either in feet or in inches, meters or millimeters.

From the selection, you can determine what kind of drawing you will produce. It will be on a macro or micro settings. If you are working on a large scale, then millimeter or inches will be irrelevant, or vise versa. Your drawing composition will be affected by the settings you choose. It is better to choose the right template for the right kind of drawing. 

The best way to answer the question is to determine what kind of drawing will you produce?
e.g. Doing a masterplan of a community or preparing a drawing for the construction of a cabinet. You will see the difference and notice a slowing down of your computer's performance if the setting is wrong.


For Sketchup Pro 2014, this is the sample of the template availabe in sketchup 

If you are using google sketchup pro, this is what it looks like;

Which one is best for you - you choose