Course Title: Produce computer-aided drawings

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term2 2022

Course Code: COSC6250C

Course Title: Produce computer-aided drawings

Important Information:

Please note that this course may have compulsory in-person attendance requirements for some teaching activities.  

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School: 530T Built Environment and Sustainability

Campus: City Campus

Program: C4417 - Certificate IV in Surveying and Spatial Information Services

Course Contact: Matthew Sweeney

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4105

Course Contact Email: matthew.sweeney@rmit.edu.au


Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Simon Shachter | Teacher - Building, Surveying and Land Management

College of Vocational Education

RMIT University

+61 39925 2000

simon.shachter@rmit.edu.au   

www.rmit.edu.au

Nominal Hours: 80

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

None

Course Description

In this course you will develop the skills and knowledge required to use appropriate software program functions and features to produce drawings for spatial tasks. This includes analysing task or design specifications, and client needs and setting up software applications. The course also includes the use of software functions and features to prepare computer-aided spatial drawings in soft and hard copy.

This course is suitable for entry-level technicians who use a broad range of cognitive, technical and communication skills to select and apply a range of methods, tools, materials and information to complete routine and non-routine activities and provide and transmit solutions to a variety of predictable and sometimes unpredictable problems.



National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:

CPPSSI4037 Produce computer-aided drawings

Element:

1. Determine drawing requirements

Performance Criteria:

1.1 Analyse design specifications and clarify client needs to determine drawing requirements and presentation standard. 1.2 Select, set up and check software according to task specifications.

Element:

2. Gather data for drawing task

Performance Criteria:

2.1 Interpret measurements and dimensions required for drawing. 2.2 Determine accuracy and tolerances to be applied to the drawing. 2.3 Import data from other software applications to meet task requirements.

Element:

3. Produce spatial drawings

Performance Criteria:

3.1 Comply with industry-accepted drawing conventions and formats to create spatial data drawings. 3.2 Use software functions and features to prepare and label drawing. 3.3 Review preliminary drawings against task specifications and industry-accepted standards 3.4 Check and validate drawing integrity to ensure precision, accuracy and quality. 3.5 Adjust drawings to meet task specifications and disseminate final drawings to appropriate persons. 3.6 Store data files according to organisational requirements.


Learning Outcomes


On successful completion of this course you will have developed and applied the skills and knowledge required to demonstrate competency in the above elements. 


Details of Learning Activities

You will learn to:

  • Clarify client needs
  • Compile relevant documentation
  • Interpret survey and architectural plans
  • Draft survey plans
  • Quality assurance checks on completed plans
  • Completing documentation and finalising project requirements

The total number of scheduled hours of teaching, learning and assessment involved in this course includes all planned activities (face to face classes, lectures, workshops and seminars; workplace visits, online learning and other forms of structured teaching and learning). It also covers the amount of effort necessary to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, observation of work performance, discussions with supervisors and others providing third party evidence and one on one and group assessment sessions with students.


Teaching Schedule

Schedule

Week 1

Introduction

Introduction to course and information on how to access software required

Week 2

Title Plan

Drafting a title plan for a simple four sided lot

Week 3

Two Lot Subdivision

Drafting a plan of subdivision for a two lot subdivision

Week 4

Subdivision with Party Wall

Drafting a plan of subdivision for a two lot subdivision that has a shared party wall

Week 5

Obtaining Surveying Documents

How to use the LASSI and SMES websites to accesss material for a survey

Week 6

Plan of Survey

Drafting a plan of survey but on a title re-establishment

Week 7

Assignment 1 – Obtain Documents

Locating and downloading documents required for a re-establishment survey

Week 8

Assignment 1 – Drafting Plan of Subdivision

Drafting a plan of subdivision based on architectural plans

Week 9

Assignment 1 – Report

Drafting a survey report that details how the title boundaries were re-established

Week 10

Abstract of Field Records 1

Replicating an abstract of field records plan

Week 11

Abstract of Field Records 2

Drafting an abstract of field records plan based field notes from a re-establishment survey

Week 12

Large Scale Subdivision

Drafting a plan of subdivision for a multi lot subdivision

Week 13

Assignment 2 – Obtain Documents

Locating and downloading documents required for a re-establishment survey

Week 14

Assignment 2 – Drafting Plan of Subdivision

Drafting a plan of subdivision based on architectural plans

Week 15

Assignment 2 – Report

Drafting a survey report that details how the title boundaries were re-established

Week 16

Feedback


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts


References


Other Resources


Overview of Assessment

Assessment for this course is ongoing throughout the semester. Your knowledge and understanding of course content is assessed through participation in class exercises, oral presentations and through the application of learned skills and insights to your written tasks. Full assessment briefs will be provided and can be found on CANVAS. 


Assessment Tasks

Assessment 1: Plan of Survey Bentleigh

Assessment 2: Plan of Survey Bundoora


Assessment Matrix

Mapping Assessments to the Unit of Competency – Instructions

Element

Performance criteria

 

 

 

 

Assessment

      Task 1: Planning Project 1

Assessment

Task 2: Planning Project 2

1. Determine drawing requirements

 

 








                1. Analyse design specifications and clarify client needs to determine drawing requirements and presentation standard

Part A (1.1)

Part A (1.2)

 

1.2. Select, set up and check software according to task specifications.

 

Part A (1.3)

Part A (1.2)

2. Gather data for drawing task

2.1. Interpret measurements and dimensions required for drawing

 

Part A (2.1) PART B ( 1.1)

 

2.2. Determine accuracy and tolerances to be applied to the drawing.

Part A (2.2)

 

2.3. Import data from other software applications to meet task requirements.

 

 

Part A (1.3)

3. Produce spatial drawings

3.1. Comply with industry-accepted drawing conventions and formats to create spatial data drawings

 

Part B (1.1)

Part B (1.5)

3.2. Use software functions and features to prepare and label drawing.

 

Part B (1.2)

 

3.3. Review preliminary drawings against task specifications and industry-accepted standards

.

Part A (3.1)

 

3.4. Check and validate drawing integrity to ensure precision, accuracy and quality.

Part B (1.3)

 

 

3.5. Adjust drawings to meet task specifications and disseminate final drawings to appropriate persons

 

Part B (1.4)

 

 

3.6. Store data files according to organisational requirements.

 

Part A (3.2)

 

 

 

Foundation Skills – This section is only completed when foundation are explicitly stated in the unit of competency. In most Training Packages the foundation skills are integrated into the unit of competency and this is clearly stated.

 

 

 

Performance Evidence 

 

 

Assessment

Task 1: Planning Project 1

Assessment

Task 2: Planning Project 2

To demonstrate competency a candidate must meet the elements and performance criteria of this unit by selecting and using appropriate software and a range of software program functions and features to produce computer-aided spatial drawings for two different spatial tasks

Part A (1.3)

Part B (1.2)

Part A1.1-2.2

Part B 1.1-2.2

 

 

Knowledge Evidence 

 

Assessment

      Task 1: Planning Project 1

Assessment

Task 2: Planning Project 2

To be competent in this unit a candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

 

 

  • types of computer-aided design software

KQ1

 

  • software functions and features:
  • arcs
  • dimensions
  • drawing features, such as polylines and texts
  • drawing functions
  • edit functions
  • isometrics and perspectives
  • methods for drawing lines
  • plotting and printing
  • using attributes to make a report
  • view displays
  • working with layers
  • three-dimensional (3-D) techniques, including displaying 3-D views
  • two-dimensional (2-D) coordinate plotting

 

KQ2

 

  • display principles:
  • colour
  • composition
  • font type
  • legends
  • media
  • scale
  • size
  • text and line style
  • title block design and content

KQ3

 

  •     drawing conventions and formats in relation to the surveying and spatial information services industry

KQ4

 

  • methods for validating drawings to identify errors

KQ5

 

  •     spatial data storage technology

KQ6

 

 

Assessment conditions

Describe how assessments meet the assessment conditions

Assessors must meet the requirements for assessors contained in the Standards for Registered Training Organisations.  

RMIT employment requires all trainers and assessors to comply with the Standards for RTOs in respect to holding the TAE40116, or higher VE qualification including any necessary updated units. All employees must show currency within their vocational specialty along with their professional employment.

Competency is to be assessed in the workplace or a simulated environment that accurately reflects performance in a real workplace setting where these skills and knowledge would be performed.         

The assessment will be completed in a simulated work environment that requires the use of software commonly used within the surveying industry

Candidates must have access to:

  •    computer, including appropriate drawing software and software appropriate for accessing and storing spatial data
  •    hardware, including printer and peripherals
  •    organisational policies and procedures relating to work health and safety (WHS).

 

Students using personal computers will have the ability to download and access a one-year student licence for the software used in this assessment.

 

If students do not have the hardware required to complete the assessments, they will be able to use of RMIT facilities that includes computer labs and the library.

 

 

Other Information

Credit Transfer and/or Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL):
You may be eligible for credit towards courses in your program if you have already met the learning/competency outcomes through previous learning and/or industry experience. To be eligible for credit towards a course, you must demonstrate that you have already completed learning and/or gained industry experience that is:

  • Relevant
  • Current
  • Satisfies the learning/competency outcomes of the course

Please refer to http://www.rmit.edu.au/students/enrolment/credit to find more information about credit transfer and RPL.
 

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Equitable Learning Services (ELS):

If you are suffering from long-term medical condition or disability, you should contact Equitable Learning Services (ELS) to seek advice and support to complete your studies.
Please refer to https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/support-and-facilities/student-support/equitable-learning-services to find more information about services offered by Equitable Learning Services (ELS).

Late submission: 

If you require an Extension of Submittable Work (assignments, reports or project work etc.) for 7 calendar days or less (from the original due date) and have valid reasons, you must complete and lodge an Application for Extension of Submittable Work (7 Calendar Days or less) form and lodge it with the Senior Educator/ Program Manager. 
The application must be lodged no later than one working day before the official due date. You will be notified within no more than 2 working days of the date of lodgment as to whether the extension has been granted. 
If you seek an Extension of Submittable Work for more than 7 calendar days (from the original due date) must lodge an Application for Special Consideration form under the provisions of the Special Consideration Policy, preferably prior to, but no later than 2 working days after the official due date. 

Submittable Work (assignments, reports or project work etc.) submitted late without approval of an extension will not be accepted or marked. 


Special consideration: 

Please Refer https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/student-essentials/assessment-and-exams/assessment/special-consideration to find more information about special consideration 

Academic Integrity: 


"Academic integrity means acting with the values of honesty, trust, fairness, respect and responsibility in learning, teaching and research."

It means referencing the work of others while developing your own insights, knowledge and ideas.

Breaches of academic integrity include:

  • plagiarism and failure to correctly acknowledge sources
  • contract cheating or paying/getting another person to prepare an assignment
  • submitting work prepared by another person
  • copying other people’s work
  • cheating in exams
  • breaching the Research Code
  • using unauthorised materials or devices

Please Refer: https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/student-essentials/assessment-and-exams/academic-integrity to find more information about plagiarism. 


All email communications will be sent to your RMIT email address and you must regularly check your RMIT emails.

Students will be able to access course information and learning materials through the Learning Hub and may be provided with additional materials in class. Lists of relevant reference books, resources in the library and accessible Internet sites will be provided where possible. You will also use equipment and software packages in the laboratory for the project work. During the course, you will be directed to websites to enhance your knowledge and understanding of difficult concepts

Check the Library Subject Guides: http://rmit.libguides.com/geospatial

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