Cape Fear Community College

 

DRAFTING: Course Descriptions


 

DFT 100 - Marine Drafting
This course introduces blueprint reading, sketching, marine drafting equipment, and the lines plan. Topics include utilization of mechanical drafting tools, blueprint lines, pictorial sketching, blueprint reading, and manually drawing plans for boats from tables of offsets. Upon completion, students should be able to create pictorial sketches, make materials lists from blueprints, expand transoms, and demonstrate an understanding of lines plans.
  • Course Hours Per Week: Class 1, Lab 2.
  • Semester Hours Credit: 2.
  • Co-Requisite: BTB 101.

 

DFT 111 - Technical Drafting I
This course introduces basic drafting skills, equipment and applications. Topics include sketching, measurements, lettering, dimensioning, geometric construction, orthographic projections and pictorials drawings, sections, and auxiliary views. Upon completion, students should be able to understand and apply basic drawing principles and practices.
  • Course hours Per Week: Class 1, Lab 3.
  • Semester Hours Credit: 2.

  • Prerequisites: Proficiency in Arithmetic/Numerical Skills (minimum Accuplacer Arithmetic score of 55 or ASSET Numerical Skills score of 41) OR a grade of “C” or better in MAT 060 or Permission of the instructor.

  • Corequisite: DFT 111A.

 

DFT 111A - Technical Drafting I Lab
This course provides a laboratory setting to enhance basic drafting skills. Emphasis is placed on practical experiences that enhance teh topics presented in DFT 111. Upon completion, students should be able to apply the laboratory experiences to the concepts placed in DFT 111.
  • Course hours Per Week: Class 0, Lab 3.
  • Semester Hours Credit: 1.
  • Corequisite: DFT 111.

 

DFT 112 - Technical Drafting II
This course provides for advanced drafting practices and procedures. Topics include detailed working drawings, hardware, fits and tolerances, assembly and sub-assembly, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, intersections, and developments. Upon completion, students should be able to produce detailed working drawings.
  • Course Hours Per Week: Class 1, Lab 3.
  • Semester Hours Credit: 2.

  • Prerequisites: DFT 111, DFT 151

  • Corequisites: DFT 112A

 

DFT 112A - Technical Drafting II Lab
This course provides a laboratory setting to enhance advance drafting skills. Emphasis is placed on practical experiences that enhance the topics presented in DFT 112. Upon completion, students should be able to apply the laboratory experiences to the concepts presented in DFT 112.
  • Course hours Per Week: Class 0, Lab 3.
  • Semester Hours Credit: 1.
  • Corequisite: DFT 112.

DFT 151 - CAD I
This course introduces CAD software as a drawing tool. Topics include drawing, editing, file management, and plotting. Upon completion, students should be able to produce and plot a CAD drawing.
  • Course Hours Per Week: Class 2, Lab 3.
  • Semester Hours Credit: 3.

  • Prerequisites: Proficiency in Arithmetic/Numerical Skills (minimum Accuplacer Arithmetic score of 55 or ASSET Numerical Skills score of 41) OR a grade of “C” or better in MAT 060 or Permission of the instructor

  • Corequisites: None

 

DFT 152 - CAD II
This course is a continuation of DFT 151. Topics include advanced two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and solid modeling and extended CAD applications. Upon completion, students should be able to generate and manage CAD drawings and models to produce engineering documents.
  • Course Hours Per Week: Class 2, Lab 3.
  • Semester Hours Credit: 3.

  • Prerequisites: DFT 111, DFT 151

  • Corequisites: DFT 112

 

DFT 153 - CAD III
This course covers basic principles of three-dimensional CAD wireframe and surface models. Topics include user coordinate systems, three-dimensional viewpoints, three-dimensional wireframes, and surface components and viewpoints. Upon completion, students should be able to create and manipulate three-dimensional wireframe and surface models. In addition to wire frame and surface models the students will be introduced to solid models using parametrics while incorporating these new skills in a Mechanical Design project.
  • Course Hours Per Week: Class 2, Lab 3.
  • Semester Hours Credit: 3.
  • Prerequisite: DFT 151.

 

DFT 154 - Intro Solid Modeling
This course is an introduction to basic three-dimensional solid modeling and design software. Topics include basic design, creation, editing, rendering and analysis of solid models and creation of multiview drawings. Upon completion, students should be able to use design techniques to create, edit, render and generate a multiview drawing.
  • Course Hours Per Week: Class 2, Lab 3.
  • Semester Hours Credit: 3.
  • Prerequisite: DFT 111.

 

DFT 211 - Gears, Cams, & Pulleys
This course introduces the principles of motion transfer. Topics include gears, cams, pulleys, and drive components. Upon completion, students should be able to solve problems and produce drawings dealing with ratios.
  • Course Hours Per Week: Class 1, Lab 3.
  • Semester Hours Credit: 2.
  • Prerequisite: DFT 111 and DFT 151.

DFT 231 - Jig and Fixture Design
This course introduces the study of jigs and fixtures. Topics include different types, components, and uses of jigs and fixtures. Upon completion, students should be able to analyze, design, and complete a set of working drawings for a jig or fixture.
  • Course Hours Per Week: Class 1, Lab 2.
  • Semester Hours Credit: 2.

  • Prerequisites: DFT 112 and DFT 154

  • Corequisites: None

 

DFT 254 - Interm Solid Model/Render
This course presents a continuation of basic three-dimensional solid modeling and design software. Topics include advanced study of parametric design, creation, editing, rendering and analysis of solid model assemblies, and multiview drawing generation. Upon completion, students should be able to use parametric design techniques to create and analyze the engineering design properties of a model assembly.
  • Course Hours Per Week: Class 2, Lab 3.
  • Semester Hours Credit: 3.
  • Prerequisite: DFT 154.