N5 CAD

Phone Stand

Learn how to use a template to create your technical drawings. Including how to:

• Create a base view

• Create projected views

• Add auxiliary views

• Add a pictorial

• Populate the title block

Spanner

Learn how add dimensions to a technical drawing to BS8888 standard. Specifically:

• Linear dimensions

• Radii and diameters

• Hexagons and squares

• Chamfers and angles

Door handle

Learn how add sectional views to a drawing. You will learn about:

• Adding cutting planes

• Adjusting cross-hatching

• Components

• Assemblies

Planter

Learn how to create an Exploded Isometric. You will learn about:

• Explode an assembly

• Add a view to a drawing

• Create a Bill-of-Material

• Add Parts Balloons

Spirograph

Learn how add an enlarged or detailed view to a drawing.

• Enlarging a feature

• Selecting a scale

• Turning on or off features

• Annotation

Metal hook

Learn how to export drawings for further refinement in other software.

• Exporting as a PDF

• Importing to other software

• Adding renders

• Making edits

Sketching Tool

The basis of all 3D modelling is create some basic 2D geometry first… Basically, draw some shapes. However, how you draw these shapes will dictate how it becomes 3D.

• Draw basic shapes

• Constrain sketches

• Extrude sketches

• Edit sketches

Box

One of the great things about 3D CAD used by engineers is that it is parametric. This means that sizes and relationships can be linked to each other, so that if one aspect changes - other areas change.

• How to link sizes

• How to mirror sketches and features

Flower

Many products are made from more than one component, assembled together. It is possible to do this in CAD too. However, how can you make this process simple? In this tutorial you will learn:

• How to make extrude different bodies

• How to convert bodies to components

• How to render as-you-go

Desk tidy

When should you shell a model? When should you extrude-subtract? Here we look at the two methods of hollowing out a model.

• Learn the Shell Tool

• When to use shell or extrude-subtract

Paperclip

Sometimes profiles are complex, and there isn’t anything we can do about it. In this lesson, we look at how we cope with complex profiles.

• Tangency command

• Trim Profiles

• Offset Profiles

Pencil Box

We have learnt a lot of skills using the extrude command. Can we bring it all together to complete this model?

• Parametrics

• Bodies-to-Parts

• Shell

Pot

The Revolve command allows you to take a profile and spin it around an axis to create a 3D model. This allows you to create a whole range of different profiles that wouldn’t be possible with extrude. You will learn:

• Create a profile

• Create an axis

• Revolve 360°

Phone Stand

Another phone stand… But this time using the Revolve command. Learn to rotate a profile round a specific angle. Then practice Extrude again to make the slot.

• Rotate round a specific angle.

Coasters

Revolving profiles symmetrically around a workplane can help make complex geometry easier. In this tutorial, you will create two bodies - a stand and a coaster. You will learn:

• To revolve profiles symmetrically.

• Revolve to a specific angle.

• Create two bodies.

Cartoon helmet

Not only can the Revolve command add material, but it can also be used to remove material. In this tutorial you will revolve a basic shape, then revolve another to subtract material. Oh, you will also learn to add a decal to a face

• Add and subtract material.

• Add a decal

Funnel

Learn to revolve complex sketch geometry and use the shell tool to hollow and object and remove two faces.

• Revolving complex geometry.

• Shell tool to remove two faces.

Scoop

Use all your new-found skills to model this small scoop!

• Revolve the scoop 180 degrees.

• Revolve the handle 350 degrees.

• Use the fillet tool.

Toy Brick

CAD assemblies are intended to resemble how real products are put together, and help designers and engineers to visualise how something fits together.

• Learn how to import components.

• To orientate your first component.

• Ground your first component

Mini-Figure

There are many tools used to assemble CAD models. These are called Constraints. The basic constraints you must know are: Mate, Align and Centre-Axis. In this lesson you will learn:

• How to constrain faces of models.

• How to constrain workplanes of models.

• How to constrain edges of models.

Marble Maze

The final lesson in the series - bring all our skills together to create a small toy for manufacture - a classic marble maze. This will be assembles using brass heat-insets and bolts, meaning we will use CAD library components. In this final lesson we will learn:

• Make use of a CAD library.

• Model a product for manufacture.

• Create technical drawings for manufacture.