Teaching CAD

After some basic instructions on CAD modelling, students often feel overly exposed to the computer’s abilities and automatisms and tend to forget about the huge benefits CAD can deliver. A supplementary course intended to change this reluctant attitude towards CAD. A detailed tutorial on modelling a common consumer product gave a good basis to motivate students to practice freeform modelling. But most importantly, lectures on some basic topics related to freeform provided profound knowledge on a more strategic and abstract level. Having received excellent feedback from the students, the course was soon integrated in the mandatory curriculum of the industrial design programme.