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Design and Manufacture a USB Pen
The project concentrates on the design and manufacture of a USB flash pen drive using a range of sketching and software, alongside laser cutting and 3D printing processes. Students will apply the tools in AutoCad and Autodesk Inventor to the challenging task of creating a small focused and detailed casing parts, before manufacturing the product. Considerations of the manufacturing processes available will need to be made by students at an early stage of the project.
The students will spend time considering the user of the USB and develop focused ideas for that user, before producing a range of solutions using different software techniques and strategies. They will then move onto technical drawing techniques and link to commercial products, and develop STL and dxf files to use at later stages of the project, before finalising the parts in CAM and completing the product assembly.
The project can be extended in the following ways:
*Modelling in foam and card before using software
*Rendering designs using simple and complex rendering packages
*Sketching using Sketchbook Pro
*Designing complex fittings like clips
D&T concepts:
*Developing a initial idea into a complex solution
*CAD Modelling
*CAM Manufacture
*Designing for a user
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Scheme of work (teachers' notes) 135.27 KB
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Lesson 1 46.28 MB
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Lesson 2 34.69 MB
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Lesson 3 41.17 MB
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Lesson 4 32.03 MB
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Lesson 5 13.75 MB
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Lesson 6 6.18 MB
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USB examples 38.67 MB
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Scheme of work (teachers' notes) 135.27 KB -
Lesson 1 46.28 MB -
Lesson 2 34.69 MB
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Lesson 3 41.17 MB
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Lesson 4 32.03 MB
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Lesson 5 13.75 MB
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Lesson 6 6.18 MB
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USB examples 38.67 MB
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