Mechanical Drafting
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The official GTU curriculum for Mechanical Drafting (subject code DI02000121) as prescribed for Mechatronics · Semester 2 divides the course into 5 units, covering 53 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (DI02000121)Unit 1 Introduction
- Concept and need of mechanical drafting
- Explain Drawing standards (IS-696 /SP 46)
Unit 4 Surface development of solids and their uses in engineering field
- (Only basic solids and their combinations are to be prepared.) 6 18 2
- Sectional orthographic: 1
- Concept of orthographic reading. 2
- Need of sections
- section lines & cutting plane. 3
- Types and applications of sections- full
- Sectional view drawings from given isometrics drawing / physical object and cutting plane conditions. 3 10 3
- Geometric & Dimensioning Tolerances (GD&T): 1
- Importance of limits and fits
- hole basis system and shaft basis system
- types of fits
- tolerance grade and fundamental deviation. 2
- Numerical based on limits and fits
- (It is compulsory to ask numerical related to Limits and Fits
- in Exam.) 2 7 4
- Production drawings: 1
- Machining symbol
- geometric symbol
- weld joint symbols as per BIS-813
- supplementary symbols
- fluid and pipe fitting symbols
- sketches of threads
- screws, nut, bolts
- keys, etc
- Program Name: Diploma in Engineering Level: Diploma Branch: Mechanical Engineering / Mechanical (CAD/CAM)/ Mechatronics Engineering Course / Subject Code : DI02000121 Course / Subject Name : Mechanical Drafting 2
- Productions drawing including GD&T and drafting symbols of simple mechanical assembly having minimum 5-6 components each made up of various manufacturing operations
Unit 5 Assembly and detail drawings
- Concept of assembly drawing having 4-5 mechanical parts
- drawing of orthographic projections for each component. 2
- Fundamentals of detail drawing
- Bill of Material (BOM) and assembly drawing. 3
- Demonstrate and explain 1-2 industrial example assembly drawings
Unit 6 Introduction to CAD software
- Discuss about available software in CAD field and their capabilities 2
- AutoCAD software window: Title bar, Ribbon tool bar, Quick Access Toolbar
- View port
- Command prompt
- Draw tool bar, modify, UCS, status bar, etc. 3
- File features: Opening new file
- saving file
- open drawing. 4
- Setting up new drawing: Unit
- dynamic USC, etc. 5
- Co-ordinate system in AutoCAD:Absolute & Relative coordinates
- Cartesian & Polar coordinates. 6
- Concept of Layers
- Blocks and Hatch with applications
Unit 7 Dimensioning in Auto CAD and Annotation
- Dimensioning in AutoCAD. 2
- Dimension types: Linear
- Dimension editing: Adding text
- rotating the dimension text. 4
- Text writing in AutoCAD: Single line
- multi-line text