This unit standard specifies the competencies required to knowledge of basic building
drawing in different contexts. It includes demonstrate knowledge of building drawing
fundamentals, apply basic drawing techniques, produce drawings for brickwork,
produce basic drawings for foundations, walls and floors, produce basic drawings of
arches, lintels and openings, draw basic views of windows, doors and jambs and draw
views of basic roof structures and drainage. This unit standard is intended for people
requiring basic building drawing skills as applied in different contexts.
- VET-Trainer: Matheus Endjala
The terms used in engineering drawing may include but not are limited to drawing,
centre, centre-line, cylinder and cylindrical, degree (of angle), internal diameter, outside
diameter, pitch circle diameter, material, square, hexagon, millimetre, metre, radius,
diameter, maximum, minimum and circumference.
Terms related to dimensions and tolerances may include but are not limited to basic
dimensions, tolerance, angularity, concentricity, cylindricity, flatness, parallelism,
roundness, straightness, symmetry, tolerance zone, auxiliary dimension, position,
functional dimension, non-functional dimension, redundant dimension, true lengths and
true position or true profile.
- Trainer: Matheus Endjala