CTC 312 Student Examples of Rendered Drawings (Spring 04)

Karl W. and Kevin H. (Civil Engr. Technology)

This drawing is an arch bridge based on the rainbow bridge in Niagara Falls, NY and Niagara Falls, Canada. The bridge itself is 1450’ long and 202’ above the river. We chose this bridge because it is a perfect example of a steel arch bridge and it was not too complicated to re-create.

The drawing itself is not totally to scale, some of the dimensions we could not find so we had to make an educated guess based on the dimensions that we had. Other problems that we ran into were using the other views to get all the pieces to line up. Once we figured it out it went smooth. The last problem we ran into was assigning the materials to the pieces. This was done by a lot of trial and error to see what materials looked good together.

After the drawing was all done we had learned a lot about drawing in 3d. It took a lot of teaching ourselves and looking up commands and how to use them properly. In the end we were happy how the drawing came out and got a lot out of it. We were on the other hand kind of disappointed that we could not add a convincing Niagara river to go under the bridge, but all in all we enjoyed the finished product .

Evan T. and Anson B. (Civil Engr. Technology)

For our final project we decided to draw a 3-dimensional image of the new Applebee’s at the Riverside Shopping Plaza. The structure has a lot of different angles and corners, so we only used two sides and squared off the rest of the building. The dimensions we used 60 feet by 50 feet for the perimeter of the structure and we used a height of 18 feet. Most of the elements are slabs, from the “Place Slab” function. Getting the slabs to match up in every axis is challenging.

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