Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

This course is a required for an Associate of Applied Science Degree in Architectural Design and Drafting.  

Transferability of credit depends entirely upon the institution to which the student wishes to transfer.  

Students who may have a disability and wish an accommodation should make arrangements to meet with the instructor outside of class to discuss specific requests.  Any request for accommodation may require that documentation of disability be reviewed by the Office for Students with Disabilities 

Create, annotate, edit and plot drawings using basic AutoCAD commands and features.
Apply basic AutoCAD skills to intermediate AutoCAD course and other design and drafting courses.

Evaluation procedures and grading criteria will be discussed during the first class meeting.  Individual and classroom discussion, lab drawing assignments, exams and quizzes, and a final project may be used to assess outcomes.

This course will be presented by means of short lecture/discussion sessions and laboratory projects.  Individualized instruction will be provided while the student is working on assigned projects.

• Design students must be able to visualize and graphically reproduce complex layouts to succeed in subsequent drafting and design courses. 
• Designers need to be able to communicate with each other, and with manufacturing and construction personnel using graphical representations of physical objects.
• AutoCAD design software is widely used in the Architectural Design and Drafting professions.
• Many Architectural Design and Drafting graduates enter the workplace by performing computerized graphics manipulations.