Introduction to Mechanical Drawings

Drafting principles for the aspiring mechanical engineer

This course is meant to give a brief introduction to mechanical drawings that an engineer would typically give to a machine or fab shop or create for the mass production environment.

What you’ll learn

• Mechanical drafting software DraftSight (free).
• Setting up custom title blocks for drawings.
• Orthographic projection.
• Dimension styles.
• Isometric sketching.
• Geometric Tolerances.

Course Content

• Introduction –> 8 lectures • 2hr 46min.

Requirements

This course is meant to give a brief introduction to mechanical drawings that an engineer would typically give to a machine or fab shop or create for the mass production environment.

We go over orthographic projection, section views, auxiliary views, dimensioning styles, and geometric tolerances.  In order to learn all of these things, we utilize DraftSight, a free 2D sketch environment created by Dassault Systems.