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Overview
The Computer Aided Design course provides opportunity for students to gain a range of valuable City & Guilds qualifications in 2 & 3-Dimensional CAD at level 2 and 3. The CAD schemes attract students from diverse backgrounds such as Electrical/Civil/Mechanical Engineering, Architectural, Furniture Design, Sports Ground Design, Town Planning, Highways, Cartography…or anyone who needs to produce plans. Increasingly, students from artistic/graphic backgrounds appreciate the links between the precise nature of CAD and graphical illustration.
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Units/Modules
There are nine learning outcomes to the Level 3 3D qualification:
- Apply appropriate commands to set the 3D modelling environment
- Create and use working planes at any required position/attitude within 3D Space
- Define and use co-ordinate points at any position within 3D Space
- Apply appropriate commands to construct the whole or part of a 3D model using the best available method – surface or solid modelling
- Apply appropriate commands to modify 3D solid objects
- Apply appropriate commands to perform 3D operations on existing objects
- Apply appropriate commands to manipulate a 3D model
- Apply appropriate commands to view 3D model in a variety of display formats
- Print/plot/export 3D models