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An individual must be able to demonstrate the knowledge required to perform the tasks outlined in the elements and performance criteria of this unit. This includes knowledge of:
interpretations and planning of drawing needs for arboriculture projects, including:types of drawings used in arboriculturecontent and purpose of drawingsuse of drawings and importance of accuracyplanning the design and drawing projectsources of information for drawing development, including:project personnelsite visits and survey plansdigital images and aerial photographybasic principles of 2D CAD drawing, including:2D CAD software programs availableCAD drawing toolsprinciples of layers and a layering strategyCAD libraries and standard detail and componentsselecting and using fonts and styles in business and drawingsselecting and setting dimension size and stylesline types, thickness and colour as a means to communicate and differentiate design elements entering text and notations into CAD drawingssetting and maintaining accuracy in CAD drawingsbasic tools and setup of a CAD drawing program, including:preparing the CAD desktop and user interfaceCAD drawing tools, their use and menu optionspreparing page layout for drawing sizeselecting hatch patterns, fill and colour creating and using title blocksuse of style guides in maintaining quality and standards for organisationsadding, editing and changing CAD components in drawings, including:drawing lines, shapes and polygonsediting and deleting lines, text and shapesjoining and breaking lines and shapesadding and editing textplotting and positioning trees and other symbolsentering and positioning dimensionsquality control check and document controlpage layout and standard size paper, including:International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and American National Standards Institute (ANSI) paper sizes and use in Australiastandard file formats for drawings and file exchange between CAD softwarestandard file formats for conversion of drawings for document sharingsaving computer files, file directories and storage media, including:methods of saving filesfile retrieval and backupimporting and exporting filesorganisational standards for naming, filing and file securityscanning and importing documents and graphics into CAD softwareplan printers, plan plotters and printing requirements, including:print page size media typeprint qualitycalculating and plotting TPZ, SRZ and encroachments.