Exploring Careers (Drafting) class if fun, but very complicated because we do lots of technical drawings. In technical drawings, we had to make the drawings easier to understand. To do that we use symbols, perspectives, units of measurement, notation systems, visual styles, and page layouts. The class is separated into two groups: people who have been there for the semester sit on the semester side and people who have been in that class for more than one semester sit on the advanced side.
Puzzle Cube Challenge
For this activity our challenge was to: Design, Build, Test, Document, and present a 3-D puzzle that is made from the scrap hardwood cubes from Fine Office Furniture, Inc. The puzzle must be appropriately challenging to a person who is 3 years of age or older. We had a Client, Target Consumer, Problem Statement, and Design Statement. Although it seems easy, there were many constraints. The puzzle must be fabricated from 27 cubes, each individual piece must consist of at least 4, but no more than six hardwood cubes that are permanently attached to each other, no puzzle pieces can be the same, and the 5 pieces must assemble to form a 3 by 3 by 3 cube. Purpose: Have you ever looked at a product that has been well-designed? Do you find yourself asking questions, such as, “How did the designer think of that idea?” Well, the more you study and learn about design and how designers create items, you begin to learn certain skills and knowledge that you can only acquire through experience. I decided to put this activity on my website, because it was my most favorite in the 4th quarter. I learned that design challenges provide opportunities to apply skills and knowledge in unique and creative ways.
Multi-view Drawing
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This is an assignment that all semester students do. There are many different drawings and objects included in this unit. A multi-view drawing refers to a drawing that has the top view, side view, and front view of the particular object it is representing. If someone wanted to make the object being represented by the multi-views, then that person must include dimensions to the drawing. To start a multi-view, you must first start with the layout. Then you follow the directions given, as shown to the left.
Sketching
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This sketch to the left was difficult to perform, because I had to use a lot of measurements. First we had to make a border and title box around the provided grid paper. The tools that we used were the T- square, a scale, erasers, a brush, and pencils: F, H, 2H, and 4H. The thicker the lead is on the pencil the lighter the lines and the thinner the lead is on the pencil the darker the lines. One reason I liked this sketch is because I learned many different shortcuts about how to draw different shapes.
Tennis Ball Challenge
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For this activity we had to build a tower using the following materials: 4 sheets of paper, 4 small paperclips and 2 large paperclips, and masking tape. The object of the challenge, is to build the tallest tower that can hold a tennis ball for more than 5 seconds using the provided materials. After people were able to build their tower and make it work, the height of the tower was measured once the tennis ball was placed on the structure. The tallest tennis ball towers that were able to stand, were at heights from 2 inches tall to 34 1/2 inches only using the materials provided.