Drawing the structure was certainly a challenge. Rhiannon didn't know to scale how big she'd made it, so the only dimensions I could get was by measuring the model box. I first did the flattened version of the drawing, but of the legs and in between supports. I then had to draw the A frame piece at the back of the structure. It wasn't very self supporting and I felt that if we built it how Rhiannon had built it, it would just fall apart (a beam going down the centre not being supported from underneath) so I had to adjust the design to be more structural. Rhiannon gave me a hand drawn technical drawing of the rear of the structure, but the problem with hand drawing things is that they are never exact, and drawing things in CAD they have to be precise. To make sure the long A shaped beams were as true to the design as possible, I had to change them as the lengths and measurements she gave me didn't add up. This was my first taste of working with angles and it is difficult! Once that problem was sorted I felt like I had stepped over a big hurdle.
I felt I couldn't draw the structure as accurately as I would have liked because I couldn't quite get my head around how they were going to be built. I feel this is just because I have no experience with construction. Richard says that my drawings wont be at a professional level until I understand what I am drawing. Also, the size of the structure is quite awkward, 1:25 doesn't fit nicely on the page layout and 1:50 is a bit small. Need to experiment with layouts.
