Course Details
Processing and Presentation of Technical Documentation
Academic Year 2025/26
VUC001 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
2 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- Font, font types and their properties, application possibilities. Plain text typography - special symbols and characters and their purpose and technical solutions in the document.
- Paragraph typesettin, paragraph parameters, types of paragraphs in the documents, technical solutions.
- The typesetting of the page - page layout, structure of the text, header and footer, footnotes, multicolumn typesetting.
- The document layout, composition of different page types, generation of document content and index.
- Mathematical symbols and expressions combined with text. Principles and processing of tabular material.
- Graphical representation of information - charts, graphs, diagrams and other visual accessories.
- Basic editing of bitmap images.
- Creating photomontages, geometric transformations in the image. Application of perspective.
- Completion of visualization model in a bitmap graphic editor. Example of rendered image export from CAD model into Photoshop, view settings and lighting model in CAD, rendering parameters, compliance with the source picture.
- Principles of research, scientific and professional work ethics, plagiarism.
- Introduction to presentation techniques, examples of bad and good presentations, analysis of nonverbal communication.
- Principles of correct presentation with examples - font size, color scheme, number of slides.
- Presentation in the form of a poster, infographics - layout, editing text and images.
- Introduction to the creation of mind maps and their use in presentation.