Entry 3

Hey! In this entry, I will share my experience with the various newfound drawing styles taught in Week 5.

Week 5: Introduction to Manual Drawing and CAD Drawing

In Week 5, Dr Noel introduced 2 Manual Drawing styles and Computer-Aided Design Drawing (CADD) with Fusion360, to present our designed ideas professionally.

Learning drawing was definitely an experience I never imagined myself having for a Diploma in Chemical Engineering. However, I can understand why we would need the skills; one of many reasons would be to represent our Capstone Project that Y3 students would undertake.

Manual Drawing

First, we did some warm-up sketches to start off.

Next, we were introduced to 2 styles of sketches commonly used.

- 1-point perspective 

- 2-point perspective

1-point perspective drawing with 1 vanishing point

Blocks are represented by a 1-point perspective drawing

2-point perspective bldg

While doing the sketches, I felt that I was in Media Arts and Design (MAD) Course or transported back to secondary school art classes 🎨.

To showcase the skills learnt and my artistic talent, here are the sketches of a coffee maker from Practical 1 and my team's final product selected using the Decision Matrix; a Water-Cooled Headset 💦🎧.

Coffee Maker

2-point perspective drawing of the Coffee maker; from my eyes

Water Cooled Headset

2-point perspective drawing of Water-Cooled Headset; courtesy of Jun Hao

CAD Drawing

For my thoughts on CAD, I heard about other students from different courses using AutoCAD and was excited to use Fusion360 to design 3D objects.

Dr Noel started us off in class with some basic skills. 

However, he told us that we should explore and learn CAD at home during our own time since everyone learns at a different pace; it would be difficult to learn as a class.

Hence, I attempted the guided tutorials at home with my friend Ethan via Discord.

With Fusion360, I completed:

- Sketch Constraints

- Photoframe

Photoframe Design using Fusion360

This is the link to the embedded photo frame for Fusion360 :)

To reflect on my experience with Fusion360, it was challenging to navigate and follow the guide on BrightSpace, but through perseverance and help from my friend Ethan, I managed through my first phase of Fusion360. The process was similar to when I first picked up using MS Visio; a tool commonly used to design Block Flow Diagrams (BFD) and Process Flow Diagrams (PFD).

I felt tired and frustrated from doing the diagrams.

It took about 4-5 hours trying to design a basic PFD by myself for an assignment. However, my father encouraged me and told me that the first time is always slow, gradually the skill will improve and it will become easy to design. 

This story is very similar to the story shared by Dr Noel of how he started off using Fusion360.

PFD from Y1 CP5090 CA

Owing to these experiences, I choose to always believe in trusting the process

All in all, it was interesting and engaging to pick up art styles to present our designs clearly and professionally. :))