Standard 1: Drafting Fundamentals

Students will understand concepts of basic drafting that include measurement, lettering, sketching, and dimensioning practices. They will measure accurately, apply appropriate lettering techniques and fonts when creating drawings, produce well-proportioned and easily understood two and three dimensional sketches, and apply dimensioning practices for drawings using the current standards of dimensioning and tolerancing for a variety of drafting applications. They will demonstrate content proficiency by:

• 1.1 using scales (architects, metric, civil and mechanical)
• 1.2 using drafting equipment
• 1.3 using common symbols and abbreviations
• 1.4 demonstrating lettering styles
• 1.5 performing freehand lettering
• 1.6 sketching a drawing
• 1.7 applying basic dimension techniques
• 1.8 apply tolerancing
• 1.9 using proper layout techniques

Standard 2: Orthographic Drawing

Students will understand, identify and correctly use the alphabet of lines, and will represent objects graphically using appropriate projection techniques. They will demonstrate content proficiency by:

• 2.1 properly using the six principle views to fully describe an object
• 2.2 demonstrating the process of projection
• 2.3 differentiating line drawing procedure/priority

Standard 3: Sectioning

Students will understand section view applications/functions, and will incorporate section views and appropriate cutting planes to clarify hidden features or objects on drawings. They will demonstrate content proficiency by:

• 3.1 using sectional line conventions and symbols
• 3.2 drawing full sections and half sections

Standard 4: Primary Auxiliary

Students will understand primary auxilary projections, and will use orthographic projection methods to produce primary auxiliary views. They will demonstrate content proficiency by:

• 4.1 constructing an auxiliary view from an oblique plane

Standard 5: Pictorial Drawing

Students will understand the structure, types, sequential construction methods, and applications of pictorial drawings, and will draw objects accurately in pictorial format. They will demonstrate content proficiency by:

• 5.1 producing isometric drawings
• 5.2 producing oblique drawings
• 5.3 producing perspective drawings

Standard 6: Computer-Aided Drafting (CAD) and Operations

Students will understand how to use the appropriate hardware and software to create geometry and apply dimensioning practices to complete drawing. Drawings will be organized using accepted computer aided drafting (CAD) procedures. They will apply appropriate software file-management procedures, and will produce hard copies of the completed drawings and save electronic files. They will demonstrate content proficiency by:

• 6.1 operating Computer Aided Drafting (CA) equipment
• 6.2 applying CAD software to generate drawings
• 6.3 saving and retrieving drawing files

Standard 7: Research and Design

Students will understand and incorporate research and design strategies as they relate to the universal problem-solving approach in the development of a drawing for the construction of a project. They will demonstrate content proficiency by:

• 7.1 determining client needs
• 7.2 developing a design for a manufacturing and/or construction project to meet a client's needs
• 7.3 evaluating the product in light of its function and meeting the client's needs

Standard 8: Solid Modeling

Students will understand the physical categories of solid geometry, and will generate a solid model using primitive shapes, extrusions and revolutions. Students will form solid models by joining primitives and solids formed by extrusion and revolution using union, difference and intersection. They will demonstrate content proficiency by:

• 8.1 producing three-dimensional drawings of polyhedral, prisms, cylinders, pyramids, cones, spheres, torus and ellipsoids
• 8.2 producing models using primitive shapes

Standard 9: Working Drawings

Students will understand the concepts of working drawings and produce drawings for manufacturability. They will demonstrate content proficiency by:

• 9.1 completing working drawings using appropriate line work, symbology and current standards
• 9.2 applying correct tolerance conventions to drawings
• 9.3 developing primary orthographic and auxiliary views
• 9.4 organizing and completing an assembly drawing using detail drawings