When you compare yourself to the others who arnt going to make it, it reflects a lot on you and the way you think of yourself. I personally don't agree with asking for someone else to do your homework. I myself was trained on autocad for 3 years doing architectural and mechanical design. Two of my designs won on my senior year and were built by my school the following year as part of a housing project.
IMO, if you are as good as you say you are, you can knock this out in 3 days at spending roughly 3hrs each. Building a floor plan is relatively easy, especially with the use of auto cad.
Does your teacher have you placing electrical, heating/cooling, water, and natural gas as well? I could see that being timely but again, not too hard to do. Another 3hr day and that can be done. To me, your teacher isn't trying to see if you can build a 2 story house with a 1 car garage, he's sure you can...you're a senior taking drafting classes, you should be able to. He's testing you guys to see what your style, how you design, and what you feel a house should be like. By having someone else do your work, you are only cheating yourself and not the school.
What i'm interested in is what's in it for whoever does it? What if your school decides to use the plan in a build, who truly gets recognition? The guy who actually made it, or the guy who's not sure of the dimensions in the living room or how many closets there are. I for one would drop the ball if you won something and gave no credit.
Yeah, I have a goal of becoming an architectural engineer and I just mess around and build amazing things.. It is more fun than a career for me though. I just started college though (almost finished first year) so hopefully I can be as great as some other people out there (like my grandfather).
Edited by antking117, March 28 2017 - 8:47 PM.
