Suggests building models as a way to reinforce and enhance related subjects such as architectural drafting, structural carpentry, etc., and discusses time, materials, scales, tools or equipment needed, how to achieve realistic special effects, and the types of projects that can be built (model of complete building, a panoramic model, and model…

View a three-dimensional object and see all surfaces, including hidden line areas. (Editor)

Four drafting teachers give their opinions on how to teach metric measurement and conversion and other matters. They are Jeffry T. Lufting, James E. Kelso, L. Dayle Yeager, and Michael B. Atkins. Computer graphics, modular structures, communicative drafting, and microfilm reproduction are also discussed. (MS)

How one instructor gains student's interest from the first day of class. (MU)

Presents techniques for using the overhead projector to help beginning drafting students visualize concepts involving situations where the plane of projection is not parallel to the surface being considered, such as the circle as an ellipse, the true sizes of acute and right angles, and sizes and shapes of oblique surfaces. (TA)

Examines the three ways of introducing CAD (computer assisted drafting) systems into industrial education curricula without spending large amounts of money. These are (1) buying software and additional hardware for computers that the school may already have, (2) getting industrial support, and (3) building your own system. (CT)

The use of models in the high school drafting room eliminates the need for many drawings and demonstrates potential problems. (MW)

Article describes a creative approach to industrial drafting programs combined with new courses designed to test the students' imagination and curiosity. (Author/RK)

A method of teaching true point dimensioning system to your students. (Editor)