Design and visual communication L7 AS91338 (2.31) – Produce working drawings to communicate technical details of a design
Note: This standard is derived from the learning objective Visual Communication DVC 7-1 so these key messages need to be read in conjunction with the material for Visual Communication
DVC 7-1.
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- Working drawings are to be produced from a student design and not a classroom exercise for each student to replicate.
- For this standard, working drawings refers to a set of scale, related 2D drawings from a student-created design. Drawings could come from components, assembly features, sectional views, auxiliary view, true shape, surface development and/or construction details.
- A set relates to more than one drawing – multiple drawings that communicate details of the shape and form that are linked through conventions of labelling/titles/symbols.
- Technical details referred to in the assessment title refers to information related to the design, both aesthetic and functional details.
- Complex visual communication refers to things such as information not visible in the main outline, multi-component assembly detail, and communication of a design with complex shape and form.
- Students can create working drawings using the traditional methods of using drawing equipment or computer-generated drawings using suitable software.
- Conventions for working drawings appropriate to the design field (architectural, engineering, fashion, landscape) are to be followed. This may include conventions associated with orthographic drawing define such things as: line types (for example, construction lines, outlines, and section lines), drawing and text layout, and dimensioning. Conventions include those which are commonly applied within a community of practice such as engineering (for example, SAA/SNZ HB1:1994), or architecture – building and landscaping (for example, NZS/AS 1100.101:1992 Technical drawing – General principles; NZS/AS 1100.301:1985 Technical drawing – Architectural drawing). Appropriate conventions are those that support the clear communication of technical information.
- For achieved, a student needs to produce a set of related scaled working drawings that use conventions correctly and show complex visual information.
- For merit, the student needs to produce working drawings that clearly communicate technical details of a design, this refers to the set of scaled drawings accuracy, ease of understanding, and being informative/concise.
- For excellence, a student needs to effectively communicate technical details of a design referring to how the scaled drawings produced are to be coherent, logically connected.
- Coherent set of working drawings that effectively communicate technical details will have relevant views and enough detail to make the design (within reason and as dependent on the complexity of the design, for example, detail to make an architectural design may only apply to some resolved details rather than the whole design).
- Support students to plan out what information they will communicate in their working drawings and the best scale for each one.
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