Design and Technologies - Manufactured Design
Length of Course
Level
Learning Area
Core or Specialist
Pre-requisites
Nil
Subject Description
Students get to showcase the skills they have learnt through FunkoCAD and Fusion Factory to design and manufacture whatever they can imagine. Their project must either be a single product of significant size and complexity or smaller products that form a series.
Examples could include a particularly large figure such as a model an-imal, machine or vehicle with many points of articulation, a complete tool-kit designed to be as functional as possible, or an interactive art piece or installation.
Fusion requires students to have access to at least a mid-tier BYOD device, and preferably a PC rather than Mac. Older machines will struggle to run the program effectively. We do have a limited number of desktop machines available, but it is better if students are able to use their own device.
- Skills Task 1: Students will create a folio documenting the production of the first stage of their project. They need to show their Fusion skills, emphasising the tools they use, why they have done things that way and evaluating their product against their original design.
- Skills Task 2: Students will investigate industry standard methods of additive and subtractive production and attempt to calculate costs of producing their projects using each method.
- Design and Production Folio: Students will begin the course by planning their project. This planning will become the first part of their folio, with documentation of their production, any redesign required and evaluation of their product.
- Students will be able to use 3D design software to produce complex objects using industry-standard software.
- They will be able to solve engineering problems using critical and creative thinking and spatial reasoning.
- This subject supports students working in Design and Technology subjects in Years 10, 11 and 12.
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