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5 Quick CAD Drawing Tips – How I Cut My Drawing Time in Half
How to get closer to becoming a CAD Ninja - A Few Great Tips for Architecture Students. Its all about templates, blocks and making your life easy for yourself. So, have a look at some of these ideas to help you cut your drawing time in half. 1. Build a block...
Free CAD Blocks – People (in Plan) 02
People 02 Free CAD Blocks Our commitment to supporting your design journey doesn't stop here. We regularly update our CAD block library with new additions and revisions based on user feedback and industry trends. So you can trust that we’re always doing our best to...
Free CAD Blocks – Trees 02
Trees 02 Free CAD Blocks These tree CAD blocks are just a few of our huge collection of trees and landscaping. Whatever your project, we hope you will find the plants and trees that will set your drawings apart. Check out more of our landscaping CAD blocks. Our free...
Free CAD Blocks – People 01
People 01 Free CAD Blocks At First In Architecture, we understand the importance of accuracy and efficiency in the design process. That's why each of our CAD blocks is meticulously crafted to provide an easy drag and drop into your own CAD file. From trees, to people...
Free CAD Blocks – North Points 01
Free CAD Blocks – North Points 01 At First In Architecture, we understand the importance of accuracy and efficiency in the design process. That's why each of our CAD blocks is meticulously crafted to provide an easy drag and drop into your own CAD file. From trees, to...
Free CAD Blocks – Trees 01
Trees 01 Free CAD Blocks Whether you're a seasoned architect or an architecture student, our CAD blocks are designed to streamline your workflow and enhance your productivity. By eliminating the need to create drawings from scratch, our CAD blocks empower you to focus...
Free CAD Blocks – Vehicles 01
Free CAD Blocks – Vehicles 01 At First In Architecture, we understand the importance of accuracy and efficiency in the design process. That's why each of our CAD blocks is meticulously crafted to provide an easy drag and drop into your own CAD file. From trees, to...
Free CAD Blocks – Furniture 01
Furniture 01 Free CAD Blocks Whether you're a seasoned architect or an architecture student, our CAD blocks are designed to streamline your workflow and enhance your productivity. By eliminating the need to create drawings from scratch, our CAD blocks empower you to...
Free CAD Blocks – Bathroom 01
Bathroom 01 Free CAD Blocks Welcome to our comprehensive collection of CAD blocks tailored specifically for architects, designers, and construction professionals. Whether you're working on residential, commercial, or industrial projects, our diverse library offers a...
Introduction to Adjustment Layers in Photoshop for Architects – Video
This video gives an introduction to using adjustment layers in photoshop, giving you a few ideas of how to use them.
Sketchup Keyboard Shortcut Quick Reference Guides
A quick guide reference card to get you familiar with the icons and keyboard shortcuts of Sketchup. Worth printing out and keeping by you as you get to know your way around Sketchup. The images below show the Reference Cards, either for Mac or Windows. If you want to...
3 Free AutoCAD Layouts
Just in case you are struggling making or setting up your own autocad layout for printing, I have set up these three simple layouts, in A3. You can download them, and adjust and alter them to your liking, but the basics are already set up. To use them, just download...
AutoCAD Lineweight and Plotstyle Tips – Video Tutorial
AutoCAD Line Weights, Colours and Plotstyles
Lineweights and colours in Autocad can be a bit of a minefield when you first start out. It is difficult to find standard colour/weight assignments and therefore you find yourself wondering if you are doing things correctly and have set things up ok. We had really...
Photoshop Lighting Tutorial – The Elephant
This may seem like an odd post, but hang on in there and you'll see what its all about. I stumbled across this image of a giant elephant walking through the streets of... somewhere, and I was struck by how effective the lighting and shadows are, which in turn make the...
Top 7 Websites for Free AutoCad Help
New to AutoCAD? Or, have you been using it for a while and still struggle? Don’t worry, there are loads of places online you can get free help, tips, resources and guidance to make you a better cad monkey! AutoCAD YouTube Channel...
Portfolio Tips for Architecture Students
Check out another of our recent Portfolio Posts Here - Guide to Creating An Awesome Architecture Portfolio Your portfolio is a creative expression of you, your skills, your ability to communicate and a general self-promoting tool! It provides a brief snap shot...
How to Write a Design and Access Statement
You may be asked at some point during your course to write a design and access statement. This post will provide you with some tips and resources to help you write a great Design and Access Statement. What is a Design and Access Statement? A Design and Access...
Top 5 Books for Architectural Drawing and Presentation
If you want to improve your drawing skills, get ideas for styles, and generally be inspired I would recommend you get hold of the following books. These are books that I found really valuable throughout my course, and were always a great source of reference. This...
CV Tool Kit for Architecture Students
Everyone has an opinion about CVs. Often, everyone has a DIFFERENT opinion about CVs. So you need to know from the start, whatever you choose to do when it comes to writing your CV, you can’t please everyone. That’s just the way it is. I’m going to list out some...