Engineering Graphics (EG)

• Principles of Engineering Graphics and their significance
• Usage of drawing instruments
• Lettering
• Conic sections including rectangular hyperbola
• Cycloid, epicycloid, hypocycloid and involute
• Scales – plain, diagonal and vernier scales

• Principles of orthographic projections and conventions
• Projection of points and lines inclined to both planes
• Projection of inclined planes and auxiliary planes

• Projections of regular solids and inclined solids with auxiliary views
• Simple annotation, dimensioning and scale
• Floor plan drawing including windows, doors, and fixtures (WC, bath, sink, shower, etc.)

• Sections and sectional views of right angular solids (prism, cylinder, pyramid, cone) with auxiliary views
• Development of surfaces of right regular solids
• Drawing sectional orthographic views of geometric solids and industry/dwelling objects (foundation to slab only)

• Principles of isometric projection and isometric scale
• Isometric views and conventions
• Isometric views of lines, planes, simple and compound solids
• Conversion of isometric views to orthographic views and vice‑versa

• Computer graphics technologies impacting graphical communication
• Theory of CAD software – menu system, toolbars, drawing area, dialogs, shortcut menus, command line, status bar, zoom methods, select/erase objects
• Isometric views of lines, planes, simple and compound solids (CAD implementation)

• Setup of drawing page and printer including scale settings
• Setting up units and drawing limits
• ISO and ANSI standards for coordinate dimensioning and tolerancing
• Orthographic constraints and snapping to objects (manual and automatic)
• Producing drawings using coordinate input methods for straight lines and circles

• Applying dimensions and annotations to objects
• Layer setup and usage – creating, editing and customizing layers
• Modifying line lengths (extend/lengthen)
• Printing drawings to paper
• Orthographic projection techniques
• Drawing sectional views of composite right regular geometric solids and projecting true shapes
• CAD modelling of parts and assemblies – parametric and non‑parametric solid, surface and wireframe models
• Part editing and two‑dimensional documentation of models
• Planar projection theory – perspective, isometric, multiview, auxiliary and section views
• Spatial visualization exercises
• Dimensioning guidelines and tolerancing techniques
• Multi‑view dimensioning and scaling for dwelling drawings

• Team design project illustrating geometry and topology of engineered components
• Creation of engineering models and presentation in standard 2D blueprint form and as 3D wire‑frame and shaded solids
• Meshed topologies for engineering analysis and tool‑path generation for component manufacture
• Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T)
• Use of solid‑modeling software for creating associative models at component and assembly levels
• Floor plans including windows, doors and fixtures (WC, bath, sink, shower, etc.)
• Applying colour coding according to building drawing practice
• Drawing sectional elevation showing foundation to ceiling
• Introduction to Building Information Modelling (BIM)

The syllabus lists no separate topics for this unit.