AutoCAD: 3D Architectural Modeling

Course details

Take your drawings from 2D to 3D with AutoCAD. In this course, instructor Scott Onstott helps you build your AutoCAD 2019 skills, one video at a time, as he steps through how to construct a 3D model. Scott shows how to extrude 2D plans into solid objects, cut out wall openings and add doors and windows, build 3D staircases, and model a complex roof surface. He also demonstrates how to create a 3D tower and sculpt the surrounding landscape with NURBS surfaces. At the end of this course, you'll have modeled a complete 3D community center based on an archetypal midcentury design.

Learning objectives
Arranging elevations and sections around a plan
Rotating objects in 3D
Extruding walls, interior partitions, and headers
Building slabs
Modeling doors, windows, and stairs
Sculpting terrain
Creating a second floor
Building roof surfaces
Sculpting solids from regions and surfaces
Modeling a tower

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Explore 3D architectural modeling in AutoCAD
02 - What you should know

1. Clean Up 2D Drawings

03 - Bring the project data together
04 - Arrange elevations around the plan
05 - Arrange sections adjacent to elevations
06 - Delete layers, clean up, and purge

2. Model the Ground Floor

07 - Set up property filters for 2D and 3D layers
08 - Create closed polylines with boundaries
09 - Navigate in 3D
10 - Rotate objects in 3D
11 - Realign elevations and sections in 3D
12 - Extrude closed polyline walls
13 - Build sills and headers
14 - Extrude interior partitions
15 - Extrude, presspull, and union headers
16 - Model curved headers
17 - Move the ceiling using a point filter
18 - Build the slab on grade

3. Model Doors, Windows, and Stairs

19 - Model doors with glazing
20 - Copy doors around the model
21 - Sketch window detail in place
22 - Model a window
23 - Copy window groups
24 - Join and extrude stair profiles
25 - Subobject manipulation
26 - Model stairs from plans
27 - Thicken stair object with Booleans
28 - Build a handrail that follows a 3D path
29 - Support the handrail

4. Model Terrain Surfaces

30 - Shape a courtyard as a NURBS surface
31 - Sculpt a sloping terrain
32 - Trim a surface with other surfaces
33 - Slice topographic contour lines
34 - Loft a surface between contours

5. Model the Second Floor

35 - Copy the ceiling to create a new floor
36 - Extrude a walkway
37 - Extrude the second floor walls
38 - Fill in voids in slabs and walls
39 - Remove unwanted volume from walls
40 - Sketch roof plans in wireframe
41 - Duplicate a wireframe for later reuse
42 - Create door headers
43 - Perform a Boolean subtraction

6. Complete the Second Floor and Roof

44 - Build interior partitions
45 - Cut window openings
46 - Create custom windows
47 - Cut standard openings in courtyard walls
48 - Cut small openings in courtyard walls
49 - Copy windows around the second floor
50 - Build roof surfaces
51 - Subtract the tower volume from the roof
52 - Sculpt solids from regions and surfaces

7. Model the Tower

53 - Build the tower walls
54 - Cut the wraparound walls down
55 - Construct the first wraparound roof
56 - Fill in walls under the roof
57 - Make a wraparound roof with 3D poly objects
58 - Fill in missing wall volume
59 - Extend walls to meet the roof
60 - Cut notches for clerestory windows
61 - Build clerestory windows
62 - Model the tower walls
63 - Shell the tower
64 - Extrude the roof along a path

Conclusion

65 - Next steps