Year 10 - Design and technology
Assembly modelling in Fusion
Systems approach to design: Sustainable Futures
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Unit Summary
Pupils will develop knowledge of electronic components and a systems approach to designing. They will learn about different components and use these to build and test circuits for different purposes. They will design a system to control a greenhouse environment, considering the different variables.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to assemble components in Fusion.
Key Notes
- Creating assemblies ensures that prototypes work as expected.
- A Fusion assembly is a collection of components that are connected by relationships.
- Assembled components are connected together as they would be in the real world using joints.
- Additional components can be inserted into an assembly, such as fixings.
Vocabulary To Learn
- component: a container for bodies, sketches and other design elements with its own timeline
- assembly: a group of components
- joint: positions components relative to each other
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Components can be placed by eye when assembly modelling in Fusion.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Creating assemblies ensures that prototypes work as expected. A Fusion assembly is a collection of components that are connected by relationships.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'component'
a container for bodies, sketches and other design elements with its own timeline.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Components can be placed by eye when assembly modelling in Fusion. Correction: To create assemblies in Fusion, the correct joints should be used to replicate how components are assembled in the real world.
More Lessons In This Unit
- 3D model using Extrude and the Timeline in Fusion Study Guide
- Assemble, test and refine systems Study Guide
- Buzzers Study Guide
- Create, modify and constrain 2D sketches in Fusion Study Guide
- Data logging Study Guide
- Design for additive manufacturing with Fusion Study Guide
- Electronic calculations Study Guide
- Fusion fundamentals Study Guide
- Input components Study Guide
- LEDs Study Guide
- Motors Study Guide
- Physical materials and appearances in Fusion Study Guide
- Systems approach to design Study Guide
- Technical drawings in Fusion Study Guide
- Virtual and physical testing of systems Study Guide
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