The course extends the knowledge of students in the field of machine building. It makes students familiar with general principles and methodology of designing machines and technological entities. It presents methods of calculation and dimensioning a technical object, force proportion analyses and work with models in the process of machine designing. Great attention is paid to a detailed analysis of constructional and computational procedures used at realization of individual machines of leading Czech manufacturers. Last but not least students are made familiar with principles of production drawing and technical documentation of production machines.