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If you have grown tired of teaching CAD and the students roll their eyes at the concept of drawing another widget.

Try adding some creativity . Simple rules - many answers.   This project utilizes the Sub D tools in Rhino V7.

Starting with some hard points (points that are given and don't change) design a bike frame.

The only rules are :  You must use the four locations :  Front and rear wheel hub centers, The location…

These single pages are added to 'prime the pump' with basic skills for drafting on paper or with Rhino.

  Books and other affordable drafting resources

Check back for additions to these pages.  Download…

The 'basics' is what the sketching and drafting posts are about.  In today's school environment there are other ways to teach design.  This is an attempt to fill in some blanks for teachers who have spent little time sketching and drawing.  Simply put, it is our attempt to encourage time with a pencil and paper for both teachers and students. 

Build up your library.  There are many $5.00 books 'out there'. …

  Inspiration from Pete's one-pager:    Scaling Exercise.  

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The 'basics' is what the sketching and drafting posts are about.  In today's school environment there are other ways to teach design.  This is an attempt to fill in some blanks for teachers who have spent little time sketching and drawing.  Simply put, it is our attempt to encourage time with a pencil and paper for both teachers and students. 

New:    …

Graph Paper digitizer doc file…

Sketching.docx

Here is a short story of how Sketching took a team of Lynden students to MIT.

If you would like to know more I would  be happy to provide details.

I hope you can use this to partially answer the question -- why are we doing this?

Dave

  Build a House: Foundation, Framing, Terrain, Blocks…

Here are a set of videos I made for my students for our usage of Rhino 6 for Mac. There's a lot I'd like to develop more of, but for now, you can share as you'd like:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh3iFL9dzjQR4XIAoq1CJ8EJzgcwBmhdY

Rhino Viewports Explained

Intro to 3D Printing

Daniel Aghassi, a 9th grade student at North Creek High School in Bothell, Washington, was very eager learn…

A model taken from the L1 training manual.

Teaching the Contour command with Project to Cplane, and Remap to x,y plane for laser…

1/8" Baltic Birch plywood, paper drinking-straw spars:…

2d to 3d House     

(not intended as a structural house model; much is missing)

Use your 2d floor plan lines and curves, foundation cross sections…

Creating Geometry for Laser Cutting and Engraving

Daniel Aghassi, a 9th grade student at North Creek High School in Bothell, Washington, was very eager learn Rhinoceros.

He decided to create a series of Absolute Beginners Tutorials…

PART 1, Deck Design   Research, Sketch, Report:      Output ideas pdf

Model to download for Output ideas project…

Blue Tape Trick…

https://vimeo.com/411273112

Daniel Aghassi, a 9th grade student at North Creek High School in Bothell, Washington, was very eager…

Video:  STL model remodeled w Rhino - video (7 mins)

Models:  STL model remodeled w Rhino -start

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Cap Screw Research One Page pdf…