Topic outline

  • General

    TECHNICAL DRAWING 1 - Homkes

    Textbook: "Basic Technical Drawing" 8th edition

  • Topic 1

    INTRODUCTION TO DRAFTING

    • Why teach manual drafting in an age of computers?
    • Blueprints: "The language of design and industry"
    • This course is the foundation for those interested in careers in design, engineering, architecture and other technical and industrial fields
    • Students can compete in the Muskegon Community College Drafting Contest held each year in December

    • Topic 2

      LETTERING AND DRAWING LAYOUT
      • Students complete 2 drawings to practice lettering and to learn how to layout a drawing and construct title blocks

      • Topic 3

        TWO DIMENSIONAL (2D) DRAWINGS:
        • Students complete 5 drawings that take them through the use of all their drafting tools and all the different types of lines and terminology used in drafting

        • Topic 4

          THE GEOMETRY OF TECHNICAL DRAWINGS:
          • Students learn about blending lines and shapes and intersecting, tangent, and parallel lines, etc., through the completion of 6 drawings

          • Topic 5

            ADVANCED 2D DRAWINGS
            • Students complete 3 drawings to practice what they just learned in Geometric Constructions

            • Topic 6

              "THE MAIN COURSE" OR CONSTRUCTING VIEWS OF OBJECTS
              • Students learn how to draw 3 dimensional objects on 2 dimensional paper by using three or more different views. During this unit they complete 10 increasingly difficult drawings.

              • Topic 7

                DIMENSIONING
                • Students now dimension the 10 drawings they just completed in the preceding unit

                • Topic 8

                  1ST SEMESTER EXAM
                  • Students scale, draft and dimension an object given to them choosing the views show the object best. The exam is open book and generally requires little preparation.

                  • Topic 9

                    SECTIONAL VIEWS
                    • Students learn how to chose the best sections to show a given object and the rules for drawing them on the blueprint completing 5 drawings.

                    • Topic 10

                      ISOMETRIC SKETCHING
                      • Students learn the basics of pictorial drawings focusing on the use of ISO sketching methods utilizing 5 drawings.

                      • Topic 11

                        THREADS AND FASTENERS
                        • In this unit students learn how draw different threads using SAE methods and symbolic/schematic representation. (2 drawings)

                        • Topic 12

                          WORKING DRAWINGS
                          • Students practice making an update to an actual drawing to understand Change Blocks and maintaining the history of the part.

                          • Topic 13

                            AUXILIARY VIEWS
                            • Students complete 3 drawings to learn the benefits of using auxiliary views to better show an object.

                            • Topic 14

                              AN INTRODUCTION TO SOLIDWORKS CAD SOFTWARE

                              • For the month of May student are exposed to the basics of 3D solid modeling using Solidworks 2009

                              • Topic 15

                                2ND SEMESTER EXAM

                                • Students are asked to design and draft the mating part to an object given to them. Again, it is an open book exam and requires little or no pre-study.  It is a demonstration of skill and technique. 

                                • Topic 16

                                  COURSE OBJECTIVES - when students have completed this course they will be able to:

                                  1. Create and read a blueprint.  Understand how this valuable skill could fit into many technical careers in industry, construction, electronics, architecture, etc.
                                  2. Use this solid knowledge base to excel in a Computer Aided Design (CAD) class.
                                  3. If given an object they can complete a blueprint of that object with the proper views so that someone could make that object from their drawing.
                                  4. If given an object they could design and make a blueprint of a mating part that fits to that object.