Module Code - Title:

PT4213 - DRAWING AND CAD

Year Last Offered:

2025/6

Hours Per Week:

Lecture

2

Lab

4

Tutorial

0

Other

0

Private

0

Credits

6

Grading Type:

Prerequisite Modules:

Rationale and Purpose of the Module:

To introduce the students to the standards, conventions and projection systems used to communicate design information. To develop the students technical communication abilities To introduce students to the principles and concepts of parametric solid modelling using SolidWorks. To introduce students to best practice sketching, modelling and assembly strategies for design intent as part of the design process.

Syllabus:

Engineering drawing communication. Visualisation. Technical sketching. Conventional representation. ISO 128 and 129. Projection systems. Auxiliary and sectional views. Dimensioning. Detail and assembly drawings. Using the SolidWorks user interface. File management and document templates. Introduction to robust sketching for design intent. Sketch relations. Basic part modelling using extruded and revolved features. Open and closed profiles. Thin features. Feature end conditions. Capturing design intent through dimensioning and relations. Applied features. Basics of bottom-up assembly modelling. Basic mates. Creating basic Part and Assembly drawings. Edrawings for visualisation and communication. Links from SolidWorks to Excel, 2D CAD, CAM and RP systems. Edrawings.

Learning Outcomes:

Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)

Communicate design information through sketching and engineering drawings. Create, interpret and understand technical drawings. Demonstrate an ability to capture and implement design intent in product design. Demonstrate basic bottom-up assembly modelling procedures. Create and use part, assembly and drawing document templates. Create and use edrawings to communicate pedagogic principles.

Affective (Attitudes and Values)

Appreciate how sketching and 3D parametric CAD can be used to solve design problems.

Psychomotor (Physical Skills)

Create technical sketches and detail drawings. Construct robust part files using the SolidWorks parametric modeller. Construct assembly documents and configurations from modelled part files. Generate fully dimensioned and annotated working drawings for created parts and assemblies.

How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:

Combination of conventional lectures, drawing labs and 3D CAD labs. Students will also have access to student versions of the software used such as SolidWorks and AutoCAD as well as a range of online resources and tutorials.

Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):

Prime Texts:

Bertoline, G.R. (2005) Fundamentals of Graphic Communication , Irwin

Giesecke et al. (2009) Technical Drawing 13th Ed. , Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ.

Cook, L.B. and Rhodes, R.S. (2001) Basic Engineering Drawing , Longman

SolidWorks Corporation (2010) SolidWorks Teacher Guide and Student Courseware, . , SolidWorks Corporatio Concord, Massachusetts.

Other Relevant Texts:

British Standards Institution (2004) Engineering Drawing Practice for Schools and Colleges , British Standards Institution

Luzadder, W.J., Duff, J.M. (1989) Fundamentals of Engineering Drawing 10th Ed. , Prentice-Hall.

Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:

Semester(s) Module is Offered:

Module Leader:

david.tanner@ul.ie