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The links below will take you to different types of help guides and tutorials. You will find 2D CAD (computer aided design), 3D CAD and graphics tutorials (technical drawings) to help improve your designing and drawing skills. You can use these to aid with your KS3, GCSE and A level projects to help improve your presentation. You will also be able to find downloadable pages to help you produce your graphic designs on, as well as videos to guide you through the tutorials.

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The letters CAD stand for computer-aided design. Architects, drafters, engineers, product designers and artists use CAD software to create plans, products and construction drawings. In school we use two different CAD programs 2D Design and Google Sketchup, now known as ‘Trimble sketchup’. 2D Design allows you to combine 2D vector drawings with text, bitmaps, photographs or clip-art to create stunning graphic products. Comprehensive editing tools allow any image to be clipped to size and shape; bitmap images can be converted into a vector drawings. Drawings and parts that have been drawn correctly on sketchup can be converted and then manufactured using the computer aided manufacturing (CAM) machines we have in school

The tutorials below are the first of many aimed at developing your designing and drawing skills. Each tutorial will gradually increase in rigor and difficulty. You may find that you prefer one particular drawing style or that you are better at one than the others. This does not matter its aimed at building skills for your GCSE or A2 major project.