Drafter’s Assistant (DA31)  Technical Certificate of Credit

Establishes safety practices as they relate to a drafting environment. Introduces basic CAD functions while presenting essential principles and practices for line relationships scale and geometric construction.

Technical Drawing I provides multiview and pictorial sketching orthographic drawing and fundamental dimensioning methods necessary to develop 2D and 3D views that completely describe machine parts for manufacture using intermediate CAD software techniques.

In this course students become acquainted with concepts of the software related to Presentations for Architectural Renderings and Architectural Animations. Students will demonstrate skills in texture applications, camera angles for presentations, lighting and shadow techniques for architectural renderings, and animation techniques for architectural presentations.

In this course the student becomes acquainted with concepts of the software related to Sheet Metal modeling for mechanical drafting, multi-body parts assemblies, and basic animation techniques for mechanical assembly presentations.

Introduces students to the fundamentals of design concepts, including design, composition and layout, color theory and typography.

This course is an introduction to the creation of vector imagery. Students will learn to draw illustrations transform objects work with layers patterns brushes and filters use effects and create graphics for the various applications. The focus will be on learning the essential tools basic operation and commands used in the creation of vector graphics used in different media fields.

In the Raster Imaging course the student becomes acquainted with the concepts and software related raster image manipulation. The student is introduced to the workspace and tools used in an image editing software and will learn basic image editing techniques.

An introduction to 3D Animation software and component visualization. Students will be introduced to software and basic techniques to begin creating models and material for animation projects. Students will also be introduced to basic lighting and animation concepts so that they will be able to develop a complete animation using 3D software at the end of this course.

This course covers the fundamentals of computer geometry by creating the basic elements that make computer models: surfaces, NURBS, polygon, mesh and subdivisions. Students will also be introduced to production techniques that includes preparing reference images fo modeling aid, rendering and output of models.

Introduces the students to concepts for creating textures and lighting for 3D computer graphics. Students will explore in-depth th various ways to create and apply texture and lighting to the 3D models.