Introducing Rayon Design, the Software Used in this Course | Lesson 02 — Transcript

Full transcript

1. 0:00so let me tell you a bit more about
2. 0:01rayon rayon is the fastest software for
3. 0:03creating precise and beautiful
4. 0:05architectural drawings it is a One-Stop
5. 0:07solution 2D software that combines the
6. 0:10three crucial steps to architectural
7. 0:11drawing drafting sketching precise
8. 0:13technical drawings illustrating
9. 0:15enriching the graphical quality of your
10. 0:17drawings using lime weights colors and
11. 0:19hatches and documenting from drawings to
12. 0:22layouts creating detailed document sets
13. 0:25and using all of the tools that R has
14. 0:27available for creating layouts adding
15. 0:30blocks and annotating your drawings
16. 0:32generally rayon is a better way of
17. 0:34producing architectural drawings as a
18. 0:36team with their online capabilities with
19. 0:38their collaboration and their vast
20. 0:40library that is really powerful for team
21. 0:41members to share templates block
22. 0:44libraries style libraries to be able to
23. 0:47standardize their workflow rayon offers
24. 0:49you all the tools that you need for
25. 0:50producing architecture drawings so now
26. 0:52you know a little bit about rayon let's
27. 0:53dive into the software and show you how
28. 0:55you can sign up
29. 1:00so if you follow the link Down Below in
30. 1:01the description of this course you will
31. 1:03arrive at rayon's homepage now here
32. 1:06you'll be able to find out more
33. 1:07information about the software itself
34. 1:10and all of their resources that are
35. 1:12available to you guys to documentation
36. 1:14and exploring more about rayon software
37. 1:17uh the tutorials space planning guides
38. 1:19blogs Etc they have a lot of information
39. 1:21on their website that is really useful
40. 1:23to help you guys through the process of
41. 1:25learning the software but you can also
42. 1:28start your rayon Journey for free now
43. 1:30the sign up process is really simple so
44. 1:32if you click the try it for free link
45. 1:35you will arrive at this page here where
46. 1:36you will just add your information so
47. 1:38your name your email and your password
48. 1:41and you'll essentially set up an account
49. 1:42where you'll have an activation link
50. 1:44sent to your email once you put your
51. 1:46details in and activate your account
52. 1:47through your email you will land at this
53. 1:49page here which will ask you what best
54. 1:52describes you so in this instance we'll
55. 1:54say architect even though I'm not quite
56. 1:57an architect yet uh it's just just me of
57. 2:00my company I'm looking to
58. 2:04produce maybe we'll do some detail
59. 2:07design I mean a lot of this we're we're
60. 2:08doing so we'll highlight some of these
61. 2:10feasibility study schematic design uh
62. 2:13space
63. 2:14planning and we'll continue what's my
64. 2:17current
65. 2:18situation um let's just say I'm starting
66. 2:21a new
67. 2:23project where did you hear or where did
68. 2:25you learn about rayon um should say
69. 2:28YouTube and then have you ever used CAD
70. 2:32or Bim software before yes very often
71. 2:35which is the software I use Revit
72. 2:39Thomas Round Tree continue it's just me
73. 2:43and the organization architecture sector
74. 2:46and how would you like to navigate the
75. 2:48canvas with a mouse using the command
76. 2:51tool using shortcuts uh we'll use
77. 2:54shortcuts then let's draw so you can
78. 2:56import straight away from the get-go DWG
79. 2:59PDF F or image which you can then use as
80. 3:02a base for your drawings you can start
81. 3:03from a template floor plan that is
82. 3:05available within rayon or you can start
83. 3:08your drawing from scratch so I'm going
84. 3:10to select draw from scratch and you will
85. 3:13land into a new model like so now when
86. 3:16you become a new user of rayon you will
87. 3:18have this kind of walkth through
88. 3:19procedure with rayon where you can click
89. 3:22next and it will take you through the
90. 3:23step by-step process of basically
91. 3:26learning the software Basics and how to
92. 3:28navigate the software now when you
93. 3:29create a new model there are three main
94. 3:31things to be aware of when using the
95. 3:33software you have kind of three points
96. 3:36on the model over the left hand side
97. 3:39you've got the kind of resource panel
98. 3:41where you have layers you have blocks
99. 3:44and block libraries you've got all the
100. 3:47styling tools and styling libraries got
101. 3:50pages and then you got tables and
102. 3:53comments as well so when you're working
103. 3:54as a team you can share comments across
104. 3:57uh the organization now we head over to
105. 3:59the right hand side you've got the
106. 4:01properties panel now this is where you
107. 4:02can control the size of items the style
108. 4:05of items the position of items the
109. 4:07alignment all of these components that
110. 4:09are really useful for helping you
111. 4:10drawing accurately and quickly and at
112. 4:13the bottom you will have your toolbar
113. 4:15where you have all of your different
114. 4:17elements shapes annotations and editing
115. 4:20tools as well as blocks and groups and
116. 4:23all of these tools I will talk you
117. 4:25through and you will get very familiar
118. 4:26with throughout this course uh and these
119. 4:28are really kind of your goto tools right
120. 4:31at the bottom here and you'll get used
121. 4:33to using all the shortcuts as well as we
122. 4:35make our way through the course
123. 4:36additionally at the top left hand corner
124. 4:38you will have these three lines which is
125. 4:40the menu tab where you can create a new
126. 4:42model you can duplicate model show
127. 4:44history import items such as images dwgs
128. 4:48PDFs round files you can export all of
129. 4:51your drawings as well and models you've
130. 4:54got your edit where you can begin to
131. 4:56paste select Etc you got your views and
132. 4:59also the preferences so preferences is a
133. 5:01really useful thing to point out at this
134. 5:04point you can either turn grids on or
135. 5:06off you can turn snapping on and off and
136. 5:08the type of snapping which is really
137. 5:10important when you're drawing items um
138. 5:13to be parallel or perpendicular on the
139. 5:16page and also connecting items together
140. 5:18you can turn your grid on and off I
141. 5:20think people tend to find a very blank
142. 5:22page very kind of daunting to start
143. 5:24drawing so Some people prefer to have
144. 5:27the Grid on which gives you a bit of
145. 5:28structure when you're drawing
146. 5:30Additionally you can change to a dark
147. 5:32mode which I think looks quite nice but
148. 5:34for the sake of this course we're going
149. 5:35to keep it as a light mode and then you
150. 5:39have all of your command modes so you
151. 5:41got the command lines or shortcuts and
152. 5:43then you got your navigation mode as
153. 5:44well so you can either use a trackpad or
154. 5:45Mouse I would always recommend using the
155. 5:48mouse when using any software um but if
156. 5:51you're good with the trackpad then fair
157. 5:53play feel feel free to use it and I
158. 5:55think that is uh the kind of
159. 5:57fundamentals of setting up a Ron model
160. 6:00and the the kind of items that you need
161. 6:02to be aware of when navigating through
162. 6:04your models and so I think that sets us
163. 6:06up nicely now to head into module one
164. 6:08and start learning rayon