- View more resources from this publisher
Teachers TV
Tooltip
These resources have been reviewed and selected by STEM Learning’s team of education specialists for factual accuracy and relevance to teaching STEM subjects in UK schools.
Designing for CAD/CAM 1
This Teachers TV video follows Steve Scott, a local authority design and technology advisor, as he works with staff and students in a school in Barking and Dagenham. Steve believes that although CAD/CAM has revolutionised classroom teaching, it can sometimes lead to traditional design skills being ignored. He has helped to pioneer a new scheme of work that takes students back to the first principles of design.
Using simple pencil drawing, he asks students to break down familiar images (such as animals, plants and people) into familiar geometric shapes which will later form the basis of designs for functional objects like CDs and toothbrush holders. They then move onto refinement of drawings, crude cardboard prototyping, CAD work using PROdesktop software and eventually CAM.
Show health and safety information
Please be aware that resources have been published on the website in the form that they were originally supplied. This means that procedures reflect general practice and standards applicable at the time resources were produced and cannot be assumed to be acceptable today. Website users are fully responsible for ensuring that any activity, including practical work, which they carry out is in accordance with current regulations related to health and safety and that an appropriate risk assessment has been carried out.
Information on the permitted use of this resource is covered by the Category Three Content section in STEM Learning’s Terms and conditions.
