Concept Sketching, Drawing and Technical Sketching
Measurement and Statistics
CAD
Conversions
100
A systematic problem-solving strategy used to develop more than one solutions to solve a problem and to test at least one possible solution.
What is the Design Process?
100
A free hand sketch that is used to communicate the basic idea for a product.
What is a Concept Sketch?
100
A measuring instrument having two adjustable jaws often used to measure diameter or thickness. This instrument is used to measure things that would be difficult to measure with a ruler or tape measure.
What is a Caliper?
100
The words that CAD represents.
What is Computer Assisted Design or Computer Aided Design?
100
The number of inches in 6 feet.
What is 72 inches?
200
A limitation or restriction on possible solutions to a problem. Examples are limits on materials, money you can spend, or construction methods you can use.
What is a Constraint?
200
See example A on the board.
What is a Perspective drawing?
200
This term describes how close a measurement is to an actual
or accepted value.
What is Accuracy?
200
The place in Inventor that we start to model the 2D version of a part file.
What is a 2D Sketch?
200
The number of feet in 126 inches.
What is 10.5 feet?
300
Required elements or "must haves" in a solution to a problem.
What are Criteria?
300
See example B on the board.
What is an Oblique drawing?
300
The measurement shown Example D on the board.
What is 3.2958 inches?
300
The plane you learned to select to begin a 2D sketch in Inventor.
What is the XY plane?
300
45 inches shown as feet and inches.
What is 3 feet 9 inches?
400
A written plan completed between the designer and the client. It identifies the problem to be solved, and criteria and constraints for the solution.
What is a Design Brief?
400
See example C on the board.
What is a Mulitview Drawing?
400
The percent of measurements found between the two marks on example E on the board.
What is 95% ?
400
The Inventor file that "connects" all the different files in an Inventor project.
What is the Project file?
400
The number of feet and inches in 4.75 feet.
What is 4 feet and 9 inches?
500
A full-scale working model used to test a design concept by making actual observations and necessary adjustments.
What is a Prototype?
500
The idea or concept that represents what is being shown in a Multiview Drawing.
What is the Glass Box?
500
This term describes how well repeated measurements show the same result.
What is precision?
500
The tool in Inventor that "stretches" a 2D sketch into a 3D object.