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Basic Projection I

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Course Unit Code546-0381/04
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated5 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *First Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites There are no prerequisites or co-requisites for this course unit
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
VAC78doc. Ing. Vojtěch Václavík, Ph.D.
DVO203doc. Ing. Tomáš Dvorský, Ph.D. Paed.IGIP
Summary
Students will make acquainted with projection software AutoCAD in following
points:
-acquaint with AutoCAD environment
-basic information about grid systems in plane
-instruction for designing in AutoCAD
-editing instruction at design creation

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
The student who completes the course should have general knowledge about AutoCAD. The student will use in other seminars the knowledge in drafting of simple project documentation for sewage systems in a specific territory and for small-size water reservoirs.
Course Contents
Curriculum:
1. Working environment: starting up AutoCAD, work with files, description of the work surface, description of mouse buttons, using AutoCAD functions and adding of tool panels.
2. Introduction into drawing: setup of drawing units for dimensions and angles of objects, coordinated systems, drawing of line segments, entering of coordinates, grip points, processing of images.
3. Drawing of entities – drawing of circles, ellipses, polygons, arcs, poly-lines and curves. Measuring of geometric properties.
4. Editing functions I. Editing. Selection of specific objects and groups for editing. Deletion, shifting and copying of objects in the drawing.
5. Editing functions II. Cropping, extension, interruption and elongation of objects. Rounding of edges. Creation of object fields.
6. Command-free editing. Introduction into command-free editing. Examples of nodes in various objects. Selection of entities into nodes. Editing by means of nodes. Change of selection settings.
7. Levels, colours and lines. Working with levels. Creation of levels. Controlling visibility of levels. Changes scales of dashed lines. Copying of entity features.
8. Hatching. Principles of hatching. Technology of hatching. Editing of hatching.
9. Using of blocks. Creating of block. Saving blocks as a file. Pasting a block into drawings. Layout of blocks.
10. -14. Creation of final planar drawing documentation.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
[1] Shawna Lockhart: Tutorial Guide to AutoCAD 2013, Schroff Development Corporation, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-58503-721-6
[1] Spielmanm, M., Špaček, J.: AutoCAD - Názorný průvodce pro verze 2012 a 2013, Computer Press, a.s., Brno, 2013.
Recommended Reading:
[1] George Omura, Brian C. Benton: Mastering AutoCAD 2013 and AutoCAD LT 2013, Sybex, 2013.
[1] Kletečka, J., Foŕt, P.: AUTOCAD 2014. Computer Press, a.s., Brno, 2014.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Graded creditGraded credit100 51