1993 Catalog Data: 14:650:215 Basic Computer Aided Drafting. Credit 1.

Personal-computer-aided drafting, geometric construction techniques, orthographic projections, auxiliary views, sectional views, oblique and isometric views, library of symbols, 3-D modeling and viewing.

Textbook: Introduction to Engineering Drawing, second Edition, by W. J. Luzadder and J. M. Duff, Prentice Hall, 1993.

Coordinator: Noshir A. Langrana, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Goals: This course develops the necessary communication skills in mechanical engineering, namely, the mechanical drawings and computer-aided drafting. This course teaches both traditional engineering drawing and computer assisted drafting.

Prerequisites by topic: None

Topics:

1. Introduction, lettering & scales, Constructions
2. Applied Geometry, Orthographic Views
3. Orthographic Views, Dimensioning
4. Dimensioning, Introduction to Isometric Views
5. Introduction to UNIX, basic computer-aided drafting concepts (CAEDS)
6. CAEDS I (lines, circles, points, ellipse and circles)
7. CAEDS II (editing, moving, rotating, and trimming entities)
8. CAEDS III (dimensioning, graphics attributes)
9. CAEDS IV (graphics attributes and isometric views)
10. Isometric Views
11. Auxiliary Projections
    

Computer Usage:

There are six computer aided drafting assignments on the topics shown above. In addition, one quiz and the final examination are given on the workstations.

Laboratory:

The students are assigned four manual drafting problems.

ABET category content as estimated by faculty member who prepared this course description:

Others: 1 credit or 100%

Prepared by: Professor Noshir A. Langrana Date: March 22, 1994