[rachakate]

Wow,

This is pretty crazy. I was just hired as a substitute to teach 2 sections of engineering design graphics. Classes start the 29th.

In my case, we're completely changing the curriculum. Moving more towards teaching the basics of design and drawing packages, rather than just all the bells and whistles that ProE has. There is another lab in the curriculum that has students machine a hammer from 2 pieces of cold rolled. So that's our focus for the drafting class. Week one they extrude a box and a cylinder, create an assembly, and make a drawing of each part. From their, we'll go back and add in all the detail, work with the parametrics of changing a hole diameter on the hammer head and having it change the diameter of the handle, and creating families of parts, where you can have a centerpunch or a screwdriver stored inside the handle. Also determining weight based on properties, creating an injection mold to create the hammer and other things.

The whole class stays relative and actually provides a lot more relavant information than when I took the class. It's kind of like what a professor told me. It's like using a calculator. When you get one, you're not going to sit down and read the instruction manual. You're do what you can with what you know. When you need to move beyond that, you'll then turn to the manual and figure it out. Give 'em basics.

Good luck!