Eng./CAD Course Outline

1. Twenty-Century Drafting and CAD
2. Sketching and Lettering Skills and Practice
3. Geometry for Technical Drawing
4. CAD (AutoCAD Skills)

  • Operate AutoCAD comfortably with basic Menu & Windows commands
  • CADD Primer: An on-line CAD Tutorial
  • Create basic drawing objects — lines, circles, arcs
  • Set up a drawing with correct scale
  • Draw with precision using coordinate input and object snaps
  • Modify with edit commands
  • Display any portion of a drawing
  • Query drawings for distances, areas
  • Dimension and add text to drawings
  • Use hatch to fill areas with pattern
  • Use blocks for smaller, smarter drawings
  • Combine drawings of different scales
  • Plot drawings

5. Multiple View Drawing
6. Dimensioning
7. Working Drawings
8. Pictorial Drawings
9. Sectional Views and Conventions
10. 3D Modeling Software ( Rhino)
11. Engineering and Problem Solving Model
12. Applied Engineering Activities (1 assigned each 6 Week Grading Period)