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3-DAY CAD WORKSHOPS: Tuesday-Thursday, April 8-10
Two computer-aided drafting (CAD) software manufacturers will give you the chance to try their products in an intensive and in-depth hands-on workshop.
Many framers in large and small companies have embraced electronic design and drafting products, and will not look back. Wherever you are on this continuum, from T-square to mouse, this presentation will provide detailed exposure to and exercises with a particular tool.
Both manufacturers have by all accounts powerful products with features specific to our trade and craft. Dietrich's AG is a stand-alone 3D and 2D CAD/CAM environment developed in Germany, with a wide variety of modeling and drafting tools, and a strong interface to CNC joinery machines. HSB-CAD, developed in Belgium, runs in the AutoCad environment familiar to most timberframers; it likewise offers modeling and drafting abilities and a fully functional CNC interface. To ensure continuity, registrants must select one product and stay with that manufacturer for the entire workshop.
In the three days, the workshop's intent is to teach users to:
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do a 3D design of a timber framed building, including all the joinery and detail,
- create shop drawings of that timberframe for production
- create the timberlist and machine control files
- do rendered 3D images of the frame.
- work with their extensive library of customized joinery (i.e. housed and shouldered tenon, English Tying Joint and scarf joint)
- output customized and midifiable timber lists to your office software
- create a "fly through" VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) of the frame and send it by e-mail for others to tour. A great marketing tool!
Workshop participants who successfully hang in there through all three days will receive a fully functional trial version of the product, Participants will need to bring a contemporary (PC) laptop with CD drive to participate in the workshop and to receive the software. Dietrich's also requires a minimum of 300MHz, 64 MB of memory, at least 350 MB available on the hard drive, a 16 to 32 MB video card, Wndows 98 or newer. To use the software efficiently on a laptop, it is essential to have an exterior three button mouse and external numeric keypad. Those attending the HSB session should have AutoCad 2000 (or higher) or Architectural DesktopR3.0 or higher.
Learn more about Dietrich's at www.dietrichs.com; HSB is at www.hsb-cad.com.
Tuition: $250/Guild members, $275/non-members. Note: These workshops begin at 9:00 on Tuesday morning, but there are no rooms available at Asilomar on Monday night and registrants will have to stay off site that night and get their own breakfast on the way to the workshop. A list of recommended accommodations will be included with your confirmation. Lunch Tuesday is included with your registration fee, as well as the $8/day park entrance fee. The lodging and meals package (not included in the tuition fee) begins with dinner on Tuesday night and runs through lunch on Thursday; registrants should use the CAD Housing Form for this workshop, plus the Main Housing Form if staying for the entire conference. See the Registration Form for more details.
Cordage, Knots, Hitches and Splicing for Timber Framing: Thursday, April 10
This Workshop will include eight hours of demonstrations, practice and fabrication of a boatswain's chair and an adjustable double legged safety harness lanyard. These will be valuable additions to your on-site toolkit.
Instructor Ted Haendel will begin with a comparison of various types of line used in rigging and fall protection and explain the uses and advantages of each. Participants will then practice the most common knots and hitches used in timber framing, including the bowline, timber hitch, trucker's hitch and more. These devices are useful not only in rigging for raising and safety, but also in securing loads for shipping. After a demonstration of whipping ends, you'll move on to splicing an eye splice and short splice in three strand manila line.
Participants will then learn to fabricate a double legged safety harness adjustable lanyard with three carabiners using nylon line (an application of the eye splice together with sliding Prusik hitches). After a demonstration of the use of a boatswain's chair, you'll then fabricate one using a short splice, double becket bend and other hitches. You'll be able to take home both devices that you make; although line will be provided you'll be asked to bring a short board for the boatswain's chair and some basic tools and the carabiners. (Please note that this safety harness lanyard is not meant to replace an industry approved lanyard which is rated and certified for on-site work and carrying specified loads. The lanyard fabricated in the Workshop will be an improvised device to be used in an emergency when an approved lanyard is not available. This will be the same lanyard demonstrated in the Penguins in Bondage presentation at our recent Banff and Burlington Conferences.)
Ted Haendel is a retired Professor of Nautical Science from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy with more than thirty years' experience teaching splicing, knots and hitches. He was Master of the Nautical School ship Kings Pointer, and sailed in the capacity of Captain and Chief Engineer aboard tugboats along the East Coast. He has also served as a New York State Building Inspector for more than a decade.
Tuition: $100/Guild members, $125/non-members. The lodging and meals package (not included in tuition fee) begins with dinner on Wednesday and goes through lunch on Thursday; registrants should use the Pre-Conference Housing Form for this workshop, as well as the Main Housing Form if staying for the entire conference. See the Registration Form for more details.
Japanese Carpentry - Work with the Daiku: Wednesday-Saturday, April 9-12, includes Conference
At the past few Conferences we have been fortunate to have visiting daiku -- Japanese carpenters and temple builders -- demonstrating their astonishing techniques. This year at Asilomar we will ratchet that experience up a few "notches" by hosting a pre-Conference workshop where a small group will able to work alongside these craftsmen on a larger project.
Mr. Kojiro Sugimura, head of the Nagoya-based Asakusaya Company (Design and Construction of Japanese Temples and Shrines) will be bringing five co-workers from Japan and will be joined by James Wiester and Ryosei Kaneko as interpreters. Beginning Wednesday morning (April 9th) they will spend the two days before the Conference begins laying out and cutting a timber-framed teahouse. 25 workshop attendees will have the rare opportunity to learn and work from them in an intensive yet intimate setting. Interspersed with the construction will be demonstrations and instruction from the masters in sharpening, layout, architectural history, design, tuning of wooden planes (kanna) and tool maintenance. Personal attention in the teacher/student relationship is our goal.
The workshop will continue through Friday with the raising anticipated late that day; on Saturday we hope to dedicate the frame and hold tea ceremonies. Attendees will be asked to bring their own tools and see the project through to completion, but are welcome to attend all Conference seminars and activities as time permits. All materials will be provided.
Tuition: $425/Guild members, $475/non-members, includes main Conference fee, but not the lodging and meals package. Registrants should use the CAD Housing Form for this workshop, plus the Main Housing Form if staying for the entire conference. See the Registration Form for more details.
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