Year 10 - Design and technology
Iterate with CAD: communal areas
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Unit Summary
Pupils will use disassembly to investigate an existing piece of flat-pack furniture, including material sources. They will use this information to inform designs. Pupils will focus on user-centred design to create and develop ideas and then plan the manufacturer for a product.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to iterate ideas for the context 'student living' using 3D CAD.
Key Notes
- CAD is part of the iterative process and is used to develop your idea by allowing you to view and analyse it virtually
- Sketching over your CAD drawings can help to develop the idea before going back to make those improvements in CAD
- Before developing your ideas in CAD, your sketches should be evaluated
Vocabulary To Learn
- CAD: computer-aided design
- development: improving and building on design ideas to make them better
- iterate: process of refining and improving a design
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Modelling using CAD is the final step in the development of designs.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
CAD is part of the iterative process and is used to develop your idea by allowing you to view and analyse it virtually. Sketching over your CAD drawings can help to develop the idea before going back to make those improvements in CAD.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'CAD'
computer-aided design.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Modelling using CAD is the final step in the development of designs. Correction: CAD is part of the iterative process. CAD should be used as a way to develop your idea by viewing it virtually and analysing the idea. Sketching over your CAD drawings can help to develop the idea before going back to make those improvements in CAD.
More Lessons In This Unit
- CAM: communal areas Study Guide
- Commercial viability: communal areas Study Guide
- Define a brief from design opportunities: communal areas Study Guide
- Design development with CAD: communal areas Study Guide
- Design for manufacture: communal areas Study Guide
- Digital Media Presentation: communal areas Study Guide
- Disassemble flat pack furniture Study Guide
- Explore the context and avoid fixation Study Guide
- Iterate with modelling: communal areas Study Guide
- Life cycle assessment of flat pack furniture Study Guide
- Market testing: communal areas Study Guide
- Quality assurance when manufacturing: communal areas Study Guide
- Sketch modelling: communal areas Study Guide
- Specialist techniques and processes for manufacture: communal areas Study Guide
- Specialist tools and equipment for manufacture: communal areas Study Guide
- Standardised components Study Guide
- Surface treatments and finishes: communal areas Study Guide
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