Technical Graphics is taught to Junior Cert level. It contains a variety of very interesting topics. Technical graphics is a subject that will benefit students enormously. The diversity of the subject ensures that the student at all times will be engaged and interested.
Students at junior cert level, as well as drawing with the traditional board and T-Square, will also have the use of the amazing facilities in the newly fitted Technical Graphics/DCG Room. The facilities are second to none as students are exposed to all modern IT equipment. This transfers into DCG (Design and Communication Graphics) for Leaving Cert.
The main areas of study are:
- Orthographic Projection
- Conic Sections
- Developments
- Axonometric Projection
- Isometric/Oblique Projection
- Solids in Contact
- Transformation Geometry
- Circles in Contact
- Perspective
- Scale
- Sketching
- Area
- Shade and Shadow
