| CODE | IFS0420 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Principles of Graphical Communication | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 00 - Mod Pre-Tert, Foundation, Proficiency & DegreePlus | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 4 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Engineering and ICT | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit focuses on the foundations of Graphical Communication and the principles of Engineering Drawing. The unit covers the basics of hand-drawn Technical Drawing techniques, freehand sketching across all modules the use of modern Computer Aided Drafting tools. Study-unit Aims: This unit aims to provide: - A review of essential graphic skills like freehand, technical drawings and basic geometrical concepts. - An introductory overview to advance visual skills, spatial ability and mental manipulation of spatial information. - An outline of the application of basic computer-aided drafting as a drawing tool, and adopting graphical solutions to mathematical problems. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Recall the methods required to draw circles in contact and tangents. - Explain appropriate uses for isometric, oblique, planometric and perspective pictorial projections. - Use standard conventions to draw in first or third angle projections sectional elevations. - Familiarise with computer-aided drafting packages and explain their use in technical graphics. - Recognise between Involutes, cycloids, Archimedean spirals and helices. - Represent and solve graphically a system of coplanar and concurrent forces. - Explain how components within a mechanism move relative to each other. - Identify the properties conic section. - Solve a variety of problems related to exploded pictorial drawings and assembly drawings. - Project a first auxiliary view. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Draw 2D shapes that include circles in contact and tangents. - Convert between pictorial projections. - Draw in first and third angle projections including projection symbols. - Convert an orthographic projections to any pictorial projection. - Draw detailed sectional elevations which may include webs, ribs, shafts and pins according to standard conventions. - Use computer-aided drafting tools to present 2D drawings. - Draw involutes, Archimedean spirals and square-section helical springs. - Draw the cycloid and its trochoids. - Solve a system of forces in equilibrium with the use of a force diagram. - Plot the locus of a point in a given mechanism and apply the principles to design novel mechanisms. - Draw the ellipse, hyperbola and parabola as a section of a cone. - Draw an assembly drawing in orthographic projection from a bill of materials. - Project an auxiliary elevation/plan of an object including slopes, holes and curvatures. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: O' Sullivan, J., & O' Sullivan, T. (2006). Understanding Technical Graphics. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. Anderson, D. (2014). Graphics in Design and Communication (One volume ed.). Dublin: Gill Education. Jackson, E., & Coll, M. H. (1994). Advanced level technical drawing (3rd ed.). England: Longman Group Uk Limited. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Please note that a pass in the Examination component is obligatory for an overall pass mark to be awarded. | ||||||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Independent Study | ||||||||||||
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