We Came. We Saw. We CAD(ed)

by Paul Mignone

In July and August this year, we at @resbaz did a university first. Over six weeks, we ran a series of ‘alpha’ Computer Aided Design (CAD) workshops to over a hundred Melbourne School of Engineering students. For quite a few years, there has been growing interest from engineering students at the university for providing opportunities to learn and develop CAD skills.

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The calm before the storm…

This has been mainly due to employers expecting engineering students to have these skills upon graduation. In addition, students have greater access to 3D printing resources, giving them opportunities fabricate many of their projects. Therefore with the help of Dr. Colin Burvill, and some awesome people from MUR Motorsports, we taught a series of one-day Solidworks CAD courses.

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The CAD workshops were a full house every Saturday!

Each class was followed up with a feedback session, where we incorporated student feedback into the course for the next iteration. By the end of the six weeks, we had a series of modules which quickly and effectively taught part design, assembly setup and engineering drawing within a single day. A draft of the course can be freely-downloaded here.

CAD in the Vine!

Once again, without the help of some fantastic people from MUR, this course would not have been possible. They are as follows:

Jacob (a.k.a Squishy) teaching part design!

Darcy teaching applied part design and reverse engineering!

Alex teaching engineering drawing!

Clarke teaching assembly modelling…by assembling Lego!

So what’s next for CAD at UniMelb? Plenty. With the ResBaz conference around the corner, we have a series of CAD classes around Autodesk Inventor an Civil3D designed to grow and develop the local community of CAD users at UniMelb. Stay tuned for details…

Best.Lego.Model.Ever.Clarke

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