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Products: Building Blocks to Reality

Building Blocks to Reality is a series of innovative instructional frameworks that help building and construction learners to build a virtual 3D timber framed house using computer software. The learning is based on an architectual 3D drawing package (archiCAD). Learners use the Building Blocks to Reality frameworks in conjunction with an architectural 3D drawing package (ArchiCAD) to construct the following:

  • subfloor
  • timber walls
  • hip and truss roof.

Learners refer to and incorporate real data into their drawings, inputting timber sizing and spacing to the correct timber framing standards required under the Australian Timber Framing Codes.

Download the Building Blocks product files

Macromedia Flash

Sample: Subfloor Framing (54 kb)

This sample is a Flash file. If you do not have a Flash viewer please download from the Macromedia website.

 

ArchiCAD template that is associated with this product (1 mb)

This is an zipped ArchiCAD file. To open the file you will need to have a program that can unzip it. To use the file you will need to have ArchiCAD installed on your computer.

Product files

download_pdf

Microsoft Word

Sub Floor Framing
Download PDF (3.72 mb) or Word (5.56 mb)
Placing Studs
Download PDF (1.57 mb) or Word (2.63 mb)
Window Space
Download PDF (2.25 mb) or Word (3.33 mb)
Door Space
Download PDF (1.26 mb) or Word (2.5 mb)
Window/Door Space
Download PDF (2.65 mb) or Word (3.45 mb)
Timber Framed Walls
Download PDF (6.4 mb) or Word (5.82 mb)
Roof Truss
Download PDF (3.21 mb) or Word (4.57 mb)
Hip Roof
Download PDF (12.3 mb) or Word (11.85 mb)
Section/Elevation Tool
Download PDF (1.46 mb) or Word (1.20 mb)

Zip File

Sub Floor Framing zipped PDF file (2.43 mb)
Placing Studs zipped PDF file (1 mb)
Window Space zipped PDF file (1.4 mb)
Door Space zipped PDF file (816 kb)
Window/Door Space zipped PDF file (1.6 mb)
Timber Framed Walls zipped PDF file (3.95 mb)
Roof Truss zipped PDF file (2 mb)
Hip Roof zipped PDF file (7.25 mb)
Section/Elevation Tool zipped PDF file (860 kb)

These documents are available in Adobe Acrobat's Portable Document Format (PDF) and Microsoft Word. If you do not already have the Acrobat Reader you can download it for free from Adobe. If you do not already have Winzip you can download an evaluation version free from Winzip.


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Last updated: February 16, 2006