Engineering Drawing & Design

11 interactive Design & Technology simulations on engineering drawing & design.

Reading a detail drawing – views, sections and dimensions Design & Technology · Engineering Drawing & Design A rotational part (bushing, stepped shaft, spacer bush or V-belt pulley) is shown at the same time as a 3D solid and... Ages 15–16
3D Exploded View and Assembly Drawing – Parts List, Item Numbers and Assembly Order Design & Technology · Engineering Drawing & Design Three small assemblies (a wheel with ball bearings on an axle, a bolted joint of two plates and a pulley keyed to a... Ages 15–16
2D + 3D First-angle vs third-angle projection – view layout and symbol Design & Technology · Engineering Drawing & Design One machine part (stepped block with a hole, L-bracket with a sloped rib, U-block with offset holes, chamfered... Ages 15–16
Technical systems – input, processing, output and feedback Design & Technology · Engineering Drawing & Design A real-time block diagram of a familiar technical system (water heater, air conditioner, rice cooker, or float-valve... Ages 15–16
3D Sectional views – movable cutting plane, full, half and local sections Design & Technology · Engineering Drawing & Design A 3D machine part (flanged bushing, flange with bolt holes, bracket with counterbored holes) is cut by a movable... Ages 15–16
2D + 3D Orthographic projection – from a 3D object to three views Design & Technology · Engineering Drawing & Design An object (a box, a wedge, an L-shaped block, a cylinder, or a hexagonal prism) rotates by mouse or touch; three... Ages 13–14
3D Developments of solids – sheet-metal patterns of prisms, cylinders and cones Design & Technology · Engineering Drawing & Design A sheet-metal blank folded into a prism, a cylinder, an obliquely cut cylinder, a cone or a frustum unfolds strip by... Ages 15–16
Five steps of engineering design – building a phone stand Design & Technology · Engineering Drawing & Design Walk through all five steps of the engineering design process for a simple product: defining the problem and... Ages 13–14
Truss bridge design – bar forces and first failure Design & Technology · Engineering Drawing & Design A four-panel steel truss bridge with a pin support at one end and a roller support at the other. Students choose the... Ages 15–16
2D + 3D From three views to the object – read the drawing and build it Design & Technology · Engineering Drawing & Design The task gives the front, top and side views of an object made of unit cubes, arranged in first-angle projection... Ages 15–16
Stresses and stiffening of structures Design & Technology · Engineering Drawing & Design Load a rod, post, shelf, shaft or pin in tension, compression, bending, torsion or shear, made of steel, aluminium... Ages 15–16