Technology Education

Engineering / 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)