Technical Design

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*Dual Credit Competencies - PC3

Technical Design I

Technical Design II

Technical Design III

Career Education

 

  PHS offers a sequence of four courses in Technical Design. The first, Technical Design Overview, works with sketching and computer modeling techniques. Students learn standard conventions associated with communicating graphically to a technical audience. They begin applying geometric concepts to develop increasingly complex models to render, animate, and to convert into two dimensional representations of three dimensional views. Scale, dimensioning, lighting effects and some animation will be mastered.

Students will incorporate basic computer drawing operations within a context of three dimensional coordinate systems to produce increasingly complex projects. They complete exercises designed to teach skills working with lines, surfaces and solids. They learn to work with snap, viewports, control points, layers, bitmap images, object properties, rendering software and many other modeling features.

An overview of three-dimensional uses of CAD is the focus of this class. Students will complete this class with an increased understanding of the role of three dimensional modeling and design within a wide range of career possibilities.

*Students must complete
up through Tech Design II, earning a grade of "B" or better, to qualify for dual credit.

 


Units of Study - Technical Design Overview