COURSE CONTENT

• Basic drafting rules and drafting equipment (rules, drafting media and equipment, lettering, scales, Computer Aided Design principles),
• Common geometric constructions (angle bisection, dividing geometric elements into equal parts, up- and downscaling, drawing parallel perpendicular and tangent lines, drawing curves),
• Multi-view projection (metric, orthographic or Monge views), solid sections, involute splines
• Mechanical drawing (working and detail drawings, assembly drawings, auxiliary views),
• Dimensioning (basics and rules, fundamentals and preferred dimensional practices, baseline dimensioning, direct and chain dimensioning, dimensioning for CAM),
• Sectional views (rules, section lines, full sections, half and offset sections, unsectioned features and intersections in section),
• Machine shop training – machining simple parts – lathe, milling machine, drilling and fitting, quality assurance and measurement.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The learning outcomes expected by the end of the course are:

• Knowledge: Students will acquire basic knowledge about the representation of objects, common geometric constructions, familiarize themselves with basic drafting rules and drafting equipment and will develop a clear understanding of sectional views. In addition, they will familiarize themselves with machine tools and processes of a typical machine shop, such as lathe, milling machine, drill, fitting, measurement and quality control.
• Skills: Students will develop skills in understanding handling typical machine tools through the construction of a simple gearbox mechanism.
• Abilities: Combination of the above knowledge and skills to enable students to complete the team project of constructing a simple gearbox mechanism and to prepare the necessary technical report.