Iterate with CAD: communal areas

Design and technology

Explore the context and avoid fixation

Disassemble flat pack furniture

Standardised components

Life cycle assessment of flat pack furniture

Define a brief from design opportunities: communal areas

Sketch modelling: communal areas

Iterate with modelling: communal areas

Design development with CAD: communal areas

Design for manufacture: communal areas

CAM: communal areas

Specialist tools and equipment for manufacture: communal areas

Specialist techniques and processes for manufacture: communal areas

Quality assurance when manufacturing: communal areas

Surface treatments and finishes: communal areas

Commercial viability: communal areas

Market testing: communal areas

Evaluate user needs and wants: communal areas

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.

Iterative design: Student Living

The process of refining and improving a design is to ...

Iterations can be led by {{}} from the user

if you are confident with the CAD application.

if you are not confident with the CAD application.

Iterating designs using CAD can be difficult ...

Testing out different materials or colours on a design can be __________ when using CAD.

it allows for detailed and precise drawings

it encourages creativity without the designer being limited

it allows for quick idea exploration and visualisation

What are the benefits of sketching as part of the creative process?

requirements and expectations of who you are designing for

When designing, we must consider different aspects. Match the definition.

Annotation is used to help {{}} the idea.

Sometimes sketching is not sufficient to explain an idea fully. What else could do?

The flat or opened-out shape of an object such as a box is called {{}}.

Once a model has been created, we use them to ...

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Iterate with CAD: communal areas

Lesson outcome

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.