Our Digital Design class took a field trip down to the Autodesk Gallery to explore the wide variety of innovative applications that computer automated design has helped make possible. We explored how CAD is used in countless fields including architecture, medicine, gaming, robotics, renewable energy and augmented reality. In the picture above we are exploring how AR can be used with topography to simulate the flow of water based on the relative elevation of the sand students physically arranged with their hands. Check out the video below to get a better sense of how it works.
Following our tour of the gallery we had a tutorial in using Fusion 360 to build a chair. The video below gives you an idea of how quickly they could use the symmetry of a chair in order to create a design. It's amazing how quickly imagination can become something tangible using these relatively new tools. I'm curious how much this experience will impact our students' ability to address the many problems in the world that we are currently failing to address.
Once our students learned some basic functions in Fusion they were challenged to make a unique chair of their own. Dash created the class favorite (pictured below the video). Keep scrolling down for some additional pictures of the gallery.
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