BC3 Academic Catalog: 2024-2025
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DRFT 114 - Blueprint Reading 3 Credits: (3 lecture)
Course Description
This course is structured to develop one’s ability to accurately interpret machine drawings and make simple shop sketches. The drawings and applications selected reflect the requirements and practices of industry. All drawings, sketches, and technical content conform to the latest ASME and ANSI Standards.
Note Fall semester only.
Text
Brown, W.C., & Brown, R. K. (10th ed.). Print reading for industry (2016). Tinley Park, IL: Goodheart-Willcox.
Objectives
The student will be able to:
A. Apply visualization techniques to interpret manufacturing parts, processes, and fabricating techniques.
B. Identify the basic principles underlying the use of various types of lines and orthographic projections.
C. Apply dimensions and tolerances according to national, international, and industrial Standards (ASME Y14.5).
D. Interpret the appearance of how the inside of a part looks in section.
E. Describe a part, unit, or mechanism completely through the application of universal standards, symbols, signs, and other techniques.
F. Prepare sketches to record data relating to dimensions, notes, and other details.
Content
A. Technical drawings and prints
B. Alphabet of lines national, and international symbols
C. Principles of projection and view orientation
D. Dimensioning and tolerancing - customary units and SI metric system
E. Machine elements and processes
F. Sectional and auxiliary views
G. Production and welding drawings
H. Basic lettering techniques
I. Sketching - orthographic and pictorial
Student Evaluation
Homework and sketching assignments. Written exams and sketching tests.
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