Assignment 2 Grades Complete and Comments

Hey Everyone!

As of tonight, I have graded all of your Revit Assignments and have a few comments to make.  First, there was a lot less information missing on this assignment, so it shows you guys have read the rubric and attended to that specifically.  So thanks for that!  There were a couple of common things that were missed on this assignment.  The first is that a lot of you had floor plans without measurements on them.  It says on the assignment page to provide a measurement, so I can check to see if the wall length requirement was met.  I only took off a point for this, since I could generally tell that most of the buildings were long enough.  Additionally, if you were among the first few students to submit your assignment and checked your grades last night, I had taken off 2 points for missing a shaded view in perspective.  To clarify, a "shaded view" in Revit is not a perspective with shadows, it is actually a simplified view of the building in color.  After discussing with Professor Mitchell, I have given any points taken for this back, since you all did provide a rendering, which was the most important part.  Just keep that in mind, since "Shaded" and "Realistic" views provide nice renderings for presentations (you can make good use of this in AE391).  To toggle the view, go to the bottom ribbon in Revit and find the Cube picture, which allows you to switch between wireframe, shaded, realistic, and hidden line views.  The only other major mistake was not including "Family Information" on the door schedule.  This is an option when selecting what to include in the schedule, and it information about the component itself.  Overall, I was really impressed with some of your models.  A lot of them were better than anything I had seen an AE student in my class produce.

If you wish to resubmit your Revit, please email me your sheet in PDF and the write up to amm543@drexel.edu.  With your email, you should include a few sentences on what you have addressed in your resubmission.  These will be due next Thursday, October 6th at midnight.

Hope you all have a fantastic week! :)

~Arthur