ITI Architectural Draughtsman Syllabus: Course Structure, Detailed Syllabus

• Importance of safety and general precautions observed in the institute and in the section.
• Importance of the trade in the development of the country’s infrastructure.
• Recreational, medical facilities, and other extracurricular activities of the institute.
• All necessary guidance to be provided to the newcomers to become familiar, with the working of the training institute.

• Freehand lettering styles.
• Architectural symbols for trees, plants, and shrubs.
• Architectural symbols for material, windows, and doors.
• Architectural symbols for plumbing and electrical fittings and fixtures.

• Free-hand sketching trees, plants, and shrubs.
• Free-hand sketching of landscapes and monuments.
• Free hand sketching of objects.
• Lettering - types of lettering, legibility, uniformity.
• Purpose and use of lines, curves, line weight, and types of lines.

• Draw a line parallel to any given point.
• Divide a line into any number of equal parts using different methods.
• Bisect a line, arc, or angle.
• Geometrical constructions using different methods - square, pentagon, triangle, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, ellipse.
• Basic system of measurement, dimensional control, location, and dimensioning of different objects like lines, circles, curves, and angles. Scale and proportion.

• Types of projections.
• Projection planes.
• First angle projection.
• Third angle projection.
• Method of drawing orthographic projections.
• Projections of line and lamina.
• Projections of lines in a simple position.
• Projection of lamina in a simple position.
• Projection of solids in simple positions.
• Drawing plan, elevation, and side elevation of simple solids like cubes, pyramids, prism, cones, and cylinders in first angle projection.
• Drawing projection of solids in the third angle projection in simple positions.

• Sizes of brick and brickbats.
• English and Flemish bond for one brick thick and one and a half brick thick wall.
• Different types of bonds (zig zag bond, diagonal bond, stretcher bond, header bond, monk wall bond, herringbone bond, Dutch bond, garden wall bond.

• Coursed and uncoursed rubble masonry.
• Random rubble masonry.
• Ashlar masonry.
• Composite masonry (stone facing with brick backing, stone facing with concrete backing, stone facing with rubble backing)

• Types of foundation – spread foundation, grillage foundation, pile foundation, raft or mat foundation.

• Lengthening spliced or longitudinal joints.
• Bearing joints.
• Framing joints.
• Angle or corner joints.
• Widening or side joints.
• Oblique-shouldered

Doors

• Details of the paneled door, flush door, batten, and ledged door.

Windows

• Details of casement window, louvred window, ventilator.
• joints.

Lintels

• Details of Wooden lintel, stone lintel, brick lintel, steel lintel, RCC lintel, Chajjas.

Arches

• Details of the semicircular arch, flat arch, segmental arch, pointed arch, two centred arch.

CAD

• Introduction to CAD.
• Starting procedures of CAD – screen appearance, toolbar, menu bar, quick access toolbar, command toolbar, units, settings, dimensioning.
• Basic CAD drafting commands - 1 – line, circle, arc, ellipse, copy, move, rotate, erase, undo, mirror, offset, fillet, polygon, trim, extend, explode.
• Basic CAD commands 2 – rectangle, array, scale, stretch, break, join, chamfer, spline, colors, line type, line weight, properties, match properties, hatch.
• Draft a plan and elevation of a 3-seater sofa / 1-seater sofa basic CAD commands.
• Draft a plan of the chair using Basic CAD commands.
• Draft door elevation using basic CAD commands.
• Draft interiors of bedroom/living room using basic CAD commands.

Damp proof Course (DPC)

• Details at plinth level.
• Details at terrace level (Water Proofing Treatment).
• Details at basement level.
• Details of the cavity wall.

Projection of Solids in inclined positions

• Drawing plan, elevation, and side elevation of inclined solids like cubes, pyramids, prisms, cones, and cylinders in first-angle projections.

Section of solids

• Drawing projection of solids in different section planes.

Introduction to design

• Design topic – Residential.
• Concept and visualization of design. (Students should be able to understand the process of designing and how the design project will go throughout the year.)

Preliminary drawing

• Drawing to be prepared by trainees in AUTOCAD based on the single-floor residential building after analyzing the requirement and area analysis.
• Initial sketches/preliminary drawings manually.
• Sketches of the plan.
• Front elevation and one side elevation.
• Section through staircase or toilet.
• Site plan with landscaping.

• Load-bearing wall.
• RCC framed structure.

Stairs

• Plan and elevation of different types of stairs – straight stairs, quarter turn stairs, open well stairs, bifurcated stairs, circular stairs.
• Construction Details of dog-legged stairs, baluster details, railing, nosing, tread, and riser calculation.
• Details of wooden stairs.
• Details of MS spiral stairs.

Floors and flooring

• Components of ground floor.
• Details of cement flooring.
• Details of stone/tile flooring.
• Details of wooden suspended flooring.
• Details of the wooden double floor.

CAD

• Advanced CAD commands – layers, block, insert, group, divide, measure, design centre, text gradient, dimension style, leader, layouts, model space viewports, File management.

Final design

• Final floor plans showing living room, kitchen, bedrooms, toilet, logical order from the main entrance, basic area with furniture, garage and driveway, pedestrian ways, levels, north line, section line, scale, schedule, statement of area, etc.
• Front elevation with all heights and levels mentioned.
• One side elevation with all heights and levels mentioned.

Note: Design elements to keep in consideration while designing the elevations.

Surface Development

• Developing surface Development of solids.

• Detailed section through staircase/toilet with all heights and levels mentioned. (All presentation drawings are to be submitted as project spiral binding).

• Final site plan with landscape elements.

(Note: subject of drawing, scale, date, job no, address, ph.no, north-south direction, sheet no. to be mentioned in all the sheets. The drawing produced should be well-readable and self explanatory.)

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1.

Professional Skill (Trade Practical)

1120

1120

2.

Professional Knowledge (Trade Theory)

240

320

3.

Workshop Calculation and Science

80

80

4.

Employability Skills

160

80

Total

1600

1600