Proposed Aviation Technical Drawing curriculum

Level : Diploma
Client: Tanzania People Defense Forces (SAK)
1.000 Introduction
 1.001 Definition, purposes of aviation drawing ( technical drawing)
 1.002 History of technical drawing and drafting
 1.003. Function of aircraft drawing
 1.004. Importance and use of a/c drawing
1.100 Fundamental of drafting
1.1 01 Specialized drafting fields

 Architectural drafting
 Aeronautical or aerospace drafting
 Map drafting
 Machine drafting
 Electrical and electronics drafting

1.200 Sketching and Lettering

 1.201 A language and visual symbols
 1.202 Reasons for sketching
 1.203 Types of sketching – rough ( unrefined and refined)
 1.204 Nature of a sketch – temporary and permanent
 1.205 Views needed for a sketch
 1.206 Materials for sketching

1.210 Sketching practice – Shop sketches , Aircraft sketches.

 Steps in making a sketch

 Sketching – .circle, arcs
 Oblique sketching
 .Pictorial sketching - cones , cubes, spheres, parabolas,ellipse.
 Views sketching

1.220 Lettering
1.221 The use of lettering
1.222 Letters – composition and guidelines
1.223 Various styles of lettering

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2.000 The use and care of drafting equipment

2.001 .The drafting room , drawing table and desks

2.002 .Basic equipment

 .Drafting boards
 Ruling straight edge
 Set Squads ( triangles) – 45 0 and 300 -600 ( not required with drafting machine)
 Drawing papers and sheets( paper, cloth or film)
 Drafting pencil
 Engineers or architects scale.
 Eraser and erasing Shield
 Templates
 .French curves
 Pair of compasses - bow, beam compasses and dividers.
 Protractors.

2.0021 Miscellaneous
- Drafting tape
- Pencil sharpener
- Lettering instrument
- Technical fountains pens
- Black drawing ink
- Brush or dust cloth
3.000 Alphabet of lines – Different lines and their uses

3.100 Practicing lines drawing – Horizontal, vertical, oblique

o Draw lines to form angles – acute, oblique

o Draw lines inclined 300-600 and 450
o Draw parallel lines

4.000 Geometry for technical drawing

4.100 Geometric practice

 Bisect a line
 Copy a given angle
 Draw a regular pentagon, hexagon and octagon
 Draw an eclipse
 Draw a line at a point to a given line
 .Draw a parallel line to a given line
 .Divide a line in a given proportion 3,5,8
 .Copy a given angle ( duplicate)
 Bisect a given angle

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4.2 00 Geometric constructions

 Construct an equilateral
 Draw a circle-name chord, sector, quadrant, segment, tangent, radius.
 Locate the centre of a given circle
 Construct concentric circles
 Circumscribe a circle in a given equilateral triangle
 Inscribe a circle in a given equilateral triangle
 Construct a regular polygons – Square, pentagon, hexagon, octagon
 Draw an ellipse

5.000 Types of drawing

5.100 Main drawings - .Assembly
- Detail
- Installation

5.200 Miscellaneous drawings

o Casting
o Electrical and electronics
o Extrusion
o Forming
o .Sheet metal
o Weld assembly
o Cams and gear

5.300 Projections
 5.301 Axonometric
 5.302 .Oblique
 5.3.3 .Auxiliary

5.400 Computer Drawing

 5.401 Introduction
 5.402 Drawing programs
 5.403 Auto-Sketch
 5.404 Auto-cad
 5.405 Achi-cad
 5.406 General application to aircraft

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 6.000 Dimensioning, Limits and Tolerance
. 6.100 Methods of dimensioning- placement of dimensions
6.200 .Application of dimension and tolerance
. 6.300 Interpret dimensions
 Tolerance
 Allowance
 Limits
 Basic hole system

6.400 -.Continues or consecutive dimension

-.Simplified baseline dimension
- Double-base line dimension
.- Centre line

7.000 Blueprint Reading

 .Purpose and use of blueprint
 .Classes of drawing
 .Assembly print
 .Detailed print
 .Shop Sketches
 .Schematics
 .Interpreting Blueprint data

8.000 Methods of illustrations

8.110 Orthographic projection
8.120 Isometric drawing.
8.130 Oblique drawing
8.140 Perspective drawing.

8.200 Title blocks and numbering system

 Title,
 scale
 drawing number
 Standards
 Bill of material
 Revision Block
 Drawing a print zone number

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8.300 Location on the aircraft
 Fuselage station
 Water Lines
 .Butt lines

8.400 Symbols and Abbreviations

 8.401 Purpose
 8.402 Material symbol
 8.403 Electrical and Electronics symbols

9.000 Drawing practice

9.001 Practice in workshop sketches orthographic and pictorial views
9.002 Geometric construction involving lines, angles, circle and selections
9.003 Exercise in blueprint reading
9.004 Use graphs and charts
9.004 Use blueprint to determine specific information
9.100 Auxiliary view and revolution
 Auxiliary Views
 The relation of auxiliary view to the usual view
 Kinds of auxiliary views

9.110 To draw an auxiliary views

 Revolutions
 The object revolved
 The rule of revolution
 Practical revolved Views

9.200 Sectional View

 .A sectional view
 Offset sections
 .A revolved section
 A removed selections
 Auxiliary section

9.300 Screw and bolts

Draw a true representation of a screw thread
Draw a regular “hexagon” bolt head and nut

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10.00 Surface Development and intersection
10.01 .Surface development

 .Pattern layout for fold-up packages

 .Development of prisms
 .Development of cylinders
 .Development of four pieces elbow
 .Develop pattern for right circular cone
 .Develop the pattern of an oblique pyramid

10.02 Intersections

 .Intersecting prisms
 .Intersecting cylinders
 .Intersecting cylinders and prisms
 .Intersecting cylinders and cone

11.100 Electrical Drawing

 .Electrical symbols
 .Simple electrical circuit
 Simple electric circuit.
 Simple electronic symbols.
 Logic symbols.
 Simple circuits employing logic symbols.

12.00 General review

 Theory of shape description.
 Size description.
 Dimensioning lines and symbols.
 Scale of a drawing.
 Theory of dimensioning general rule.
 Tolerances and limits.

12.10 Methods of illustrating objects.

 Pictorial drawings.
 Orthographical projections.
 Detail view.
 Section view.
 Revolved section.

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12.20 Diagrams.
 Installation diagrams
 Schematic diagrams.

12.30 Symbols
 Diagram symbols.
 Material symbols.
 Shape symbols
 Electrical symbols

12.40 Microfilms
 Advantage
 Use
 Micro-film presentation-microfiche.

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