Course Details

Processing and Presentation of Technical Documentation

Academic Year 2025/26

VUC001 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Principles of word processing in word processors according to standard CSN 01 6910: fonts, elements of technical texts, formal layout of paragraphs, pages and documents. Bibliographic citations and references in the text, according to ISO 690. More complex elements of technical texts: mathematical symbols and expressions, tables, graphs and visual documentation. Content requirements of technical documentation. Appropriate technical methods of text preparation and subsequent text processing. The preparation of bitmap images for presentations construction and architectural projects. Basic techniques for creating photorealistic assembly. Processing final stages of bulding model visualization in a raster graphics editor - image export from a 3D modeller, completing visualization in raster graphics editor. Presentation techniques, examples of bad and good presentations, non-verbal component of presentations. Photo and video editing, poster presentations, infographics, mind maps.

Credits

2 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Jiří Rybička, Dr.

Institute

Institute of Computer Aided Engineering and Computer Science

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Entry Knowledge

Basics of operation systems, especially file system. Text editor and principles of image processing.

Aims

The course goal is a presentation of proper form and also efficiently technical text processing including image attachments -- namely bachelor thesis.

Course variant for image processing: Students will learn how to edit raw photo images to achieve a proper technical quality.


The practice-oriented course contains of text preparation principles and rules, working with mathematical expressions, tables, bibliography citations and other typical elements of professional texts.

Course variant for image processing: Students will learn how to edit raw photo images to achieve a proper technical quality. Also techniques for photorealistic assembly are presented. Students will learn the techniques of presentation, get acquainted with examples of good and bad presentations, with presentations in the form of a poster, infographics, mind maps.

Basic Literature

Rybička, J., Čačková, P., Přichystal, J. Průvodce tvorbou dokumentů. Bučovice: Nakladatelství Martin Stříž, 2011.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/294944

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.