Drafting

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Drafting Product Design Architecture

• Introduction - The Graphic Language

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Objectives

• Outline the procedure for identifying a career
  for which a student would be suited.
• Identify the main stages in develop of a drawing
• Identify the main branches of technical drawing
• Identify 6 specific functions in each branch of
  engineering
• Prepare the work area for a drawing
• Prepare a drawing with borders and title block.

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Your Lifes Work.

• What are some traits of a career that you would
  want to do?
• Enjoy
• Uses your strengths rather weaknesses
• Exhibits your interests and abilities
• What careers relate to Science Technology
• Science, engineers, designers, drafters,
  mechanics, technicians, business, teachers,
  lawyers, and manufacturers

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Language of Drawing

• Technical Drawings Relate to
• Manufacturing, construction, electronics
• Need Technical Drawing ability
• Read Blue Prints
• Written expression understood around the world
• Confucius 1 picture is worth 1000 words.

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Industrial Drafting

• Difference between Art Drafting
• Art represents personal style and how the artists
  sees an object
• A technical person draws an object as true to
  life a possible. Accuracy is a main objective
• Stages of Development
• Freehand
• Mechanical
• Working Drawings

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Working Drawings

• Complete set of drawings so an object can be
  built without additional information.

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Branches of Technical Drawing

• Mechanical Drawing
• Used to describe industrial drawings.
• Technical Drawing is to include freehand
  sketching
• Architecture Drawing
• Machine Drawing
• Structural Drawing
• Sheet Metal
• Electrical
• Aeronautical
• Marine

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Goal of Technical Drawing

• First Accurate
• Second Proper Technique (good workman ship)
• Second Proper Technique
• Third Neat
• Fourth Speed (time is money)

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Monuments of History

• Ancient Egyptian Pyramids
• Greek Parthenon
• Geodesic Domes of Buckminster Fuller
• NASAs Space Station
• Drafting is an Universal Language
• Leonardo da Vinci (1454-1519)
• Easy to understand 3D drawings
• Industrial Revolution
• Drafting is the Language of History

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American Know-How

• George Washington was a surveyor mapping new
  territories
• Thomas Jefferson prepared house plans for
  Monticello (home in Virginia)

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Technical Drawing Lead to Design Specific
Functions of Engineering

• Specific Functions of Engineering
• Research
• Development Engineering
• Design Engineer
• Production Engineer
• Construction Engineer
• Operating Engineer

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Technology is Planning Your Future

• Designer is key to change

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Plans from Joining a Team

1. Beginning Level Drafter
2. Drafting CAD Technician
3. Design CAD Technician

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Design Teams Special Skills

• Careers
• Researcher
• Development staff
• Project coordinator
• Engineer
• Illustrator
• Designer
• Senior Detailer
• CAD Technician
• Computer Graphic Programmers
• Design Drafting Technician
• Junior Drafting Technician
• Clerical Engineering Staff
• Specifications Writers
• Contract Specialist

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Computer Aided Drafting

• Does not help teach the basic principle of drawing

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Back to Basics

• Understanding traditional drafting before CAD
• Pencil Skills
• Line Weights
• Lettering
• Hand Held Tools

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Designer Traits

• Do you like to take things apart to see how they
  work?
• Do you like to make things with your own hands?
• Do you notice the importance of shapes in objects
  with good design?
• Do you ever think that you can improve the design
  of an object?

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Designer Traits

• Do you find yourself concerned about other
  peoples needs?
• Do you like to sketch or make drawings?
• Do you like to study products that have unusual
  shapes?
• Are you open to new ideas?
• Do you like to do research?
• Would you like to investigate new ways of working
  with computer systems?