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AUGUSTINE UNIVERSITY OF TANZANIA (SAUT)

Faculty of Engineering Department of Civil Engineering

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Instructions: Attempt all questions Students are permitted to bring into the examination room: pens, pencils, highlighters, erasers, sharpeners and rulers. Students are NOT permitted to bring into the examination room: blank sheets of paper and/or white out liquid/tape. Calculator is allowed in this examination. Cellular Phones are strictly prohibited in the examination room. Marks are clearly shown in each question. All written responses must be in English.

CE 201 Computer Application in Civil Engineering BScCE 4 2012/13 1 3 hrs

Section A: Autodesk Revit Architecture (50 Marks) 1. (a) How Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) differs from Building Information Modeling (BIM) (5 Marks). (b) What is meant by parametric as used in Autodesk Revit Architecture? (4 Marks) (c) Mention five model Elements and five annotation Elements in Revit architectures (5 Marks) (d) Explain the following Autodesk Revit Architecture terms (i) (ii) (iii) 2. Project Levels Families (2 Marks) (2 Marks) (2 Marks)

Given the floor plan (Appendix 1) write the procedures on how to draw the floor plan using Autodesk Revit Architecture. Also write the procedure to produce the following: a. Elevations b. Section c. Roof d. Schedule (30 Marks)

Section B: MS Project (50 Marks) 3. (a) Describe the following terms used in Ms Project (i) (ii) (b) (c) 4. Gantt chart (5 Marks) Network diagram (5 Marks)

Why are milestones placed in the schedule? (5 Marks) Why is it necessary to save a baseline? (5 Marks)

The given schedule for Proposed Residential houses for SAUT shows the project plan; outline the procedures so as to produce the given plan. (30 Marks)