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LC2011 (Design and communication graphics) - do NOT post images of exam material
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We were told (And it says it in the Assignment help in the link a couple of posts up) that the pictures should tell a story in some way. Don't stick pictures on for the craic, put up one basic model from a few years ago, then one with maybe a new way of being mounted (Google Nav-Mat for an example of this) and have another with perhaps a GPS on your phone or something thats mounted in a normal phone holder in a car. Something like that.thanks
so its only physical features...can you tell me any more physical features please i'm kinda stuck on output 1! also should we include the history of sat navs even though it doesn't state that we need it in the brief?0 -
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thanks so its only physical features...can you tell me any more physical features please i'm kinda stuck on output 1! also should we include the history of sat navs even though it doesn't state that we need it in the brief?
Buttons, Screen, Shape, Size, Materials etc. When you think about it, there's a lot of small differences in Sat Navs. Some have styluses included, others can be used with just your finger. Different mounting devices too..
The hard part is not finding their features, but putting them on paper in coherent, well rendered sketches accompanied with meaningful annotations. Now that's hard.0 -
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One last question for Output 1 and I'll leave ye. (Until we start Output 2 that is
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For the picture we take ourselves, should we take a picture of the Sat Nav mounted in the car, or as our teacher suggested, put it on a white sheet on the floor of one of the rooms in the house?0 -
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I have a copy of Solidworks '09. Am I allowed to do my models at home as well as school? I heard somewhere that you can't and they can check, but my teacher keeps telling me that it's fine and I can't convince him otherwise. I just don't want to be caught out.
No, your not meant to do any part of the project unsupervised, main reason being to prove that its your work, not your older brother who has a degree in design. Yes you can prepare work at home, but your mean't to do it in school. I haven't heard of anyone being caught out, but they can easily check when and where you did the work of any part of solidworks.
For example, if an inspector opened the hard copy of your solidworks to find you saved X part at 11.30pm on a sunday night you wouldn't really be able to get yourself out of that one :rolleyes:0 -
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Looking over all the questions an all I gotta say i wish i was re-doing the project. I done it last year, and it went brilliant.
Id love to redo the experience.
I went to The Institute of Education and one of the highlights was Peter Timmons, my DCG teacher.
Reading over some of the comments here are some tips.
1. Start the project immediately.
- Start with Output 1 and 2. Give yourself a week at most and get them done.
- By the time January comes you'll have seen loads of other peoples work and gone over your own to refresh them and make these outputs better.
- Id advise using a computer to do them on as you can easily update the work fast.
2. Time for some Solid Works.
- As with everything in life to separate yourself from the B1's and A2's you need to do something unique to get that A1.
- Doing my project I had over 25 different parts. Its a bit much but im a perfectionist. ... Decide on a Sat Nav which you can build on Solidworks to an excellent standard. Make sure you go out and buy it. Not a new one, thats a waste of money unless its very cheap. Don't use ebay it'll take years to arrive. Use adverts.ie .... it does not have to work but you will need to take all the small measurements and angles.
- Go into as much detail as you can. Make sure you can use Decals . Once you open up the Sat Nav and build the major components you can add stuff such as a rectangle block and just add a decal of a motherboard onto it.
Takes less than 2 mins to do and very effective.
- Make sure you build your piece fully. Cut it in half. Save one piece as Front. The other as Back. Mate them back together and you have two peices instead of one. Also hollow them out.
Thats all i have time for now but there's much more to it. Presentation is key although on the surface it doesn't carry marks it'll make a difference.
If you need help send me a message anytime. If people are interested i can go more in detail.
Hope this helps.0 -
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Looking over all the questions an all I gotta say i wish i was re-doing the project. I done it last year, and it went brilliant.
Id love to redo the experience.
I went to The Institute of Education and one of the highlights was Peter Timmons, my DCG teacher.
Reading over some of the comments here are some tips.
1. Start the project immediately.
- Start with Output 1 and 2. Give yourself a week at most and get them done.
- By the time January comes you'll have seen loads of other peoples work and gone over your own to refresh them and make these outputs better.
- Id advise using a computer to do them on as you can easily update the work fast.
2. Time for some Solid Works.
- As with everything in life to separate yourself from the B1's and A2's you need to do something unique to get that A1.
- Doing my project I had over 25 different parts. Its a bit much but im a perfectionist. ... Decide on a Sat Nav which you can build on Solidworks to an excellent standard. Make sure you go out and buy it. Not a new one, thats a waste of money unless its very cheap. Don't use ebay it'll take years to arrive. Use adverts.ie .... it does not have to work but you will need to take all the small measurements and angles.
- Go into as much detail as you can. Make sure you can use Decals . Once you open up the Sat Nav and build the major components you can add stuff such as a rectangle block and just add a decal of a motherboard onto it.
Takes less than 2 mins to do and very effective.
- Make sure you build your piece fully. Cut it in half. Save one piece as Front. The other as Back. Mate them back together and you have two peices instead of one. Also hollow them out.
Thats all i have time for now but there's much more to it. Presentation is key although on the surface it doesn't carry marks it'll make a difference.
If you need help send me a message anytime. If people are interested i can go more in detail.
Hope this helps.
Thanks for your input so far.. When you spoke about putting components from inside the Sat Nav how do you know what sizes the stuff is or does that really matter? Could you just do a box and write motherboard or processer on it and thats it??
Id appreciate it if you could give us more general tips!:D 0
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