3.00 Credits
This course provides instruction in advanced computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) techniques in addition to creation of three-dimensional drawings. Students progress from two-dimensional projection to wireframe, surface modeling, solids modeling and rendering techniques. Emphasis will be placed on maximizing a personal computer-based CADD system to develop a series of increasingly difficult drafting assignments and ending with a presentation quality final project and portfolio of completed drawings.Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: Describe user coordinate systems, workplanes and coordinate data, using absolute, relative, polar and spherical coordinates, as well as coordinate filters, to create planar, prismatic and three-dimensional curved features on drawings. Create semi and logarithmic scales and charts, as well as three-dimensional pictorial line and pie charts, bar graphs, scatter plots and surface plots. Construct three-dimensional drawings consisting of wireframe, primitives and solids; and utilize software features to determine the mass properties of a three-dimensional solid models. Utilize descriptive geometry techniques to draft three-dimensional intersections and developments. Compose axonometric, oblique and perspective view drawings. Construct orthographic, isometric and auxiliary view drawings utilizing parametric modeling software. Develop three-dimensional drawings to include assembly drawings using parametric constraint/ modeling techniques. Make sections, profiles and cut away views of three-dimensional objects, including constrained drawings. Apply intermediate to advanced rendering, shading and animation techniques to optimize technical design presentations. Use various display, drawing and plotter parameters and commands to satisfy the specific requirements of a 3D design/drafting assignment.
Prerequisite:
Prerequisite: TCC 122.