This course surveys the principles and practices involved in making and reading engineering drawings. Students will develop skills in engineering graphics with an emphasis on visualization, orthographic projection, and line techniques. An introduction to computer-aided drafting/design emphasizes the skills necessary to function in a systems drafting environment, including keyboard commands, menu printer/plotter usage, input devices, computer terminology, and systems operation. Hands-on experience includes creating, saving, and retrieving drawings with various shapes, lines, types, dimensions, and layers, and activities to ensure competence in basic computer use.

This course introduces students to computer-aided design (CAD) with extensive lab work using AutoCAD software. Topics include AutoCAD command structure, setting units and limits, drafting primitives, layering, editing tools, and grid, snap, and axis commands. Assignments require extensive us of the CADlab, with extra hours available for practice. This course prepares students for a related technical certification.

Covers additional topics in AutoCAD which include blocks, move and copy, array, mirror, text, text styles, 3D and isometric modes. The development of macro operations. As in basic CAD, extra lab hours are available.