Penn Foster Structural Drafting

[Vdietz]

Good morning,

      I found this website searching for tutorials to guide me on this Structural Drafting assignment with Penn Foster. I have read through a few of the current threads, and some were helpful, but with visuals being shared that are not correct vs a lack of what it should look like, I am still lost. I wish I had known about this website during Oelson Village, I did pass that with a B on that one. However, that was easier for two reasons.. it is my daily life working with architectural plans for custom homes, so a site plan was not a stretch for me, and also it gave me a visual/goal to finish towards. I could auto-correct myself from step-by-step directions that left quite a bit out.

      Now I am onto the Structural Drafting assignment and am struggling more.. I was able to get to the point (of my attached images) due to some visuals and threads previously posted on here. However, when I switch to side (3D) views, it looks way off, and I am failing to see how this is all going to connect. Can anyone help me by showing me a visual of the end product that I am building..(I do not want the file, I want to build this and learn.) but a end visual of the front/side of what I am turning in helps. Or am I too soon into the steps, and should not freak out because it will all come together further along? Am I missing clear aspects like 3D measurements..details that are keeping these girders/beams I have built not architecturally correct. Please let me know if I am missing a key dimension, where I should enter that. I am taking a course to learn AutoCAD, but being asked to jump into 3D structual building after only ever doing a site plan in AutoCAD is rough. I get it..I learned a lot in the Oelson Village assignment, just by being thrown into it, but this Structural Drafting assignment is confusing for me.

 

Thank you in advance to anyone jumping in, and sorry if you are repeating yourself. It is easy to get lost in other threads and go down a rabbit hole.