Suggests building models as a way to reinforce and enhance related subjects such as architectural drafting, structural carpentry, etc., and discusses time, materials, scales, tools or equipment needed, how to achieve realistic special effects, and the types of projects that can be built (model of complete building, a panoramic model, and model…

How one instructor gains student's interest from the first day of class. (MU)

This article describes the AutoCAD Laboratory at Hawaii's Kamehameha Secondary Schools, offering the perspective of the AutoCAD instructor and Technology Department Head, looking at a day in the AutoCAD Laboratory, and explaining how teaching students about computer-assisted design and drafting can prepare them for college or careers. (SM)

Presents techniques for using the overhead projector to help beginning drafting students visualize concepts involving situations where the plane of projection is not parallel to the surface being considered, such as the circle as an ellipse, the true sizes of acute and right angles, and sizes and shapes of oblique surfaces. (TA)

Students should be introduced to the mechanics of drafting at the beginning of their legal studies and they should be given exercises to enable them to demonstrate that they have mastered those mechanics. (Author)

Describes how basic drafting content was presented to secondary students by emulating industrial techniques. (GR)

If you have a 35mm camera, an enlarger or filmstrip projector, and developing equipment you can introduce your drafting students to one of the processes used in the newly emerging field of technical communication.'' (Editor)

Drafters must be detail-oriented people. The objects they draw are interpreted and then built with the extreme precision required by today's manufacturers. Now that computer-aided drafting (CAD) has taken over the drafting profession, anything less than exact precision is unacceptable. In her drafting classes, the author expects her students to…