Paperbox Design and Drafting Assignment

Paperbox Assignment in Drafting and Design

ART or NASI 214: DRAFTING AND DESIGN
May: 2001, Marvin Bartel , inst., Goshen College
this page updated: April 23, 2001

The college needs distribution boxes made and installed for the Record.
The Design Criteria

Material - oak
Finish - natural semi-gloss urethane
Size - must accomodate the Record which is 8-1/2 x 11-1/2 inches when distributed.
Additional design goals will be generated in a class discussion.
Each student should contribute at least one idea design concept to this discusion.

The Project Team

fabricator and installer - Jim Dreier, Phys Plant.
client - Duane Stoltzfus, Comm. Faculty.
useres - Goshen College students.
design team - Drafting and Design class.
consultant for design, drawing, and drafting - Marvin Bartel, Prof. of Art

The Design Process

Each team member sketches about 6 ideas for how these boxes might look
Meet with your design group to discuss the merits of all the designs and how they meet the criteria.
Each person elaborates and refines their best ideas.
Meet again and select one design per group.
Each person render a freehand orthgraphic drawing roughly to scale.
Each person render a freehand perspective realistic presentation drawing with papers in the box as view by an average sized standing college student about four feet from the box.
Meet with the fabricator to verify construction process and take suggestions.
Meet with the client to verify that the needs are being well served.

The Drafting Process

Each team member drafts one view of the box using AutoCAD

See Hints for Getting Started With AutoCAD

Print a copy for checking.
The group checks printouts for errors.
Edit and print again.
The group checks again.
Repeat until all is correct and according to drafting standards used by all in the group.
Each member of the group copies and and pastes all views into a single title block border drawing using an A size paper space template.

Each member scan or digitally photograph their presentation rendering and paste a small image (about 2 insches) onto the drawing layout.
Each member print the final layout in the title block border.
Other group members check for errors.
Edit and reprint until no errors are found.

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Marvin Bartel, Ed.D., Professor of Art
Goshen College, 1700 South Main St., Goshen IN 46526
fax: 219-535-7660
updated 4-25-01