Drafting Courses

This course provides the student with the basics of drafting. Students receive instruction in career opportunities, personal and shop safety, computer aided drafting (CAD), geometric construction, orthographic views, dimensioning, and isometric views. Instruction incorporates presentation, demonstration, and hands-on performance assessments.

This course provides students with an introduction to the components of mechanical design. This full-year course expands on the basic CAD drawing techniques for mechanical design projects. Students further develop drawing skills using multi-view drawings, orthographic projection techniques, sectional views and auxiliary views, as they develop drawings for basic geometric constructions, bolt, screw and nut drawings, welding drawings and structural drafting. Various shop processes are examined including casting, forging and welding. Instruction incorporates presentation drawings, including shading, perspective, and exploded assembly drawings.

This course provides students with an introduction to residential architectural drawing and Mechanical design utilizing various CAD/industry standard programs including Revit, Enscape, Lumion, Auto-Cad and Solid Works. This course incorporates basic site design, structural and mechanical systems design and detailing required in the building permit process. Students are introduced to property survey and plot plan drawings. Students learn to draw floor plans, elevations, foundation plans, foundation sections, framing plans, cross sections, longitudinal sections and typical wall section drawings, exterior perspectives, rendering, and architectural modeling. Students are also introduced to plumbing plans, HVAC drawings, and electrical drawings and sheet metal parts. In preparation for co-op/industry student will obtain a 10-hour OSHA certification.

Students explore materials, advanced dimensioning techniques, tolerancing, checking, 3D solid models, 3D solid rendering, robotics competition design and detailing, schematic drawings, wiring diagrams. Instruction incorporates presentations, demonstration, and hands on performance testing in the areas of advanced CAD software, 3D solids and mechanical design. Students participate in mechanical design projects. Students are introduced to the product design processes that incorporate 3D laser scanning and printing. Students will also create portfolios in preparation for cooperative education opportunities.