1. Year 12 Transition Work A’level Design and Technology
These tasks should take at least 5 hours to complete.

2. Task 1: Two Point Perspective
Using two point perspective produce a realistic drawing of this Dyson Vacuum cleaner. Include colour and shade.
Draw guide lines and a horizon line to help.
Remember -
To use boxes as guides when drawing circles and cylinders.
Draw lightly and go over lines when you are happy that they are correct.
All vertical lines remain vertical!
When shading, imagine the light is coming from one direction. Used the ‘full’ range of light and shade. (Press on hard in the dark areas and leave light / highlights white.)

3. Helpful Techniques
Practice doing circles on some scrap paper before starting.
Note the light and shade.
Above the horizon line you are looking up at the object. Below the line you are looking down on it.
Check that the shadows are cast in the correct direction.

4. Task 2: Third Angle Orthographic Projection
Orthographic drawings enable the manufacture to see the product from a variety of angles. Top, Front, Side.
Drawings are drawn to scale.
Detailed measurements can be included.
You are to produce a 3rd angle orthographic drawing of an everyday household object- Kitchen appliance or handheld device for example.
Use guide lines as shown on p5 to reduce the amount of measuring
A ruler is essential for this task.

5. Helpful Techniques
Imagine you are drawing each face on a cube and then opening the net out.
Try to put the drawing in order, as shown.
More views can easily be added.

6. Task 3: Exam Questions Use the extract from the text book along with further research to answer the questions on the following page.

7. AS style exam questions
Discuss how the Just in Time (JIT) system is used to achieve lean manufacturing in industry.
(This is a 6 mark question)
Discuss the advantages of using coal as a source of energy.
Discuss the disadvantage of using solar power as a source of energy
(10 marks in total for these two questions)

8. Task 4: Produce a 3D drawing using CAD
Produce a drawing of a product using a CAD programme. You may have already used programmes such as Inventor or Google Sketch Up- this is fine, produce it using one of these.
If you haven’t used one before it is important you get yourself familiar with a CAD programme. An excellent one is Autodesk Fusion 360 which is free to download. The link is below.
There are tutorials on here and useful projects on youtube. The more you play around with these CAD programmes the better you will become. This is an essential skill to have for this course.