Though vector drawing apps are usually targeted to designers of all stripes, they can be particularly useful to manufacturing and engineering designers. And they can be fun for those designers to use ...

Key points of this articleThe "artistic sense" required for engineers is not the ability to draw beautiful pictures. It is the ability to instantly convey structures, positional relationships, ...

In the video tutorial below, we’ll take a look at how to define drawing sheet zones for sheet formats and how to locate drawing views and annotations that reside in the drawing in SOLIDWORKS. Drawing ...

A sleeve bushing can be simple to model yet difficult to quote or verify when its drawing omits the conditions that govern ...

Basic, low level activities designed to give students confidence in reading and producing their own drawings in engineering. Starter activity is for students to identify the correct views. Drawing ...

Drawing software aids in creating illustrations using vectors and/or rasters in two or three dimensions; illustrations are often represented as charts, diagrams, graphs, and images. This type of ...

Using LEGO robots and other ‘intro to robotics’ platforms is a great introduction to kinematics and programming, but if you’re teaching a classroom of people who don’t know what a 1/4-20 screw is, ...

The purpose of this course is to introduce engineering drawing techniques through an in-depth experience with modern computer aided design (CAD) software. The course will begin with an introduction of ...