HOR 150 Irrigation Blueprint Reading and Sketching

Lecture Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 2
Credits: 2

Introduces basic construction plan interpretation. Covers symbol usage, line types, dimensioning, section views, axillary views and integration of construction plans from various trades.

Student Learning Outcomes:

Utilize engineering and architectural scales to take measurements
Interpret and understand construction plan symbols and drawings
Utilize basic drafting technologies and conventions
Develop a site assessment and define the irrigation system needed
Construct an irrigation system in a readable format

Content Outline

Drafting
- Hand drafting
- Computer aided design (CAD)
Common elements of landscape plants
- Title block
- North arrow
- Legend
- Plan specifications
- Drawing scale
Scales
- Engineering
- Architectural
Symbols
- Sheet metal
- Welding
- Electrical
Construction plans interpretation
- Site
- Mechanical
- Electrical
Basic plan sheet layout
- Multiview drawings
- Section view drawings
- Auxiliary view drawings
Dimensioning
- Terms and measurements associated with dimensioning mechanics
- Symbols that have been standardized for dimensioning notations
- Choice and placement rules drafters use when creating dimensions
- Systems and methods for dimensioning
- Alternative methods for describing size and applying dimensions
Instrumentation and control drawing
- Types of control diagrams
- Symbols used on fluid power diagrams
- Supplementary information accompanying circuit diagrams
- Graphic diagrams for fluid control devices
Basic geometric construction
- Geometry of industrial drawings
- Orientation relationships found within two-dimensional and three-dimensional geometry
- Properties of geometric constructions
- Two-dimensional geometric shapes
- Three-dimensional geometric shapes
- Specialized geometric elements