CDTlog

We’re reaching the deadlines for Standard and Higher Grade Graphics folios, and pupils have been generating their ortho drawings from their CAD 3D models.

At present, we’re using Wildfire 4 (M092) and this session we’ve adopted the user interface provided to us by James Collin and James Todd at St. Augustine’s.  It de-clutters the Pro/Engineer screen and makes the materials and rendering buttons easily available (though it also hides the ’sketch’ button).  We’ve also adopted their ‘format’ and template drawings for Standard Grade, and adapted them for use at Higher Grade.

At Standard Grade, St. Augustine’s format and template speeds up the process pupils go through to generate their orth drawings, by prompting them to enter details in the title box as the drawing opens, and by automatically adding plan, elevation, end elevation and isometric views.

At Higher Grade, where we’re using Pro/Engineer for the first time, we’ve modified the format to include an area where pupils may add their own company logo.

The startup web page that appears in Pro/Engineer is now one from our web site, made narrower to avoid the need to scroll horizontally to view it all.  The page includes a gallery of work and links to tutorials.  Not all of the links are currently working, and we’ll be adding links to PDF versions of the tutorials soon.

In the coming weeks, we anticipate using Pro/Engineer (and Blender) to model products for 3D printing on our recently delivered Rapman.  Info about our experiences with the Rapman will be posted here soon.