Course Title: Make scale models

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2020

Course Code: VART6484C

Course Title: Make scale models

School: 375T Vocational Design and Social Context

Campus: Brunswick Campus

Program: C5382 - Diploma of Product Design

Course Contact: Robin Blood

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4819

Course Contact Email: robin.blood@rmit.edu.au


Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Nominal Hours: 50

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

None

Course Description

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to make 3-dimensional (3D) scale models in response to specifications, which may be part of a brief. The focus of this unit is on the technical skills required to make accurate scale models to designed specifications. Design skills are found in other units within the Visual Arts Craft and Design Training Package. People working in many industries require the skills and knowledge in this unit, and the unit is written to allow for contextualisation to a particular industry context. Within the cultural industries this unit is relevant for people working across multiple sectors.


National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:

CUAACD304 Make scale models

Element:

1. Prepare to make scale models

Performance Criteria:

1.1 Clarify scale model requirements based on relevant documentation, verbal briefs and consultation with relevant people
1.2 Identify potential challenges and plan work to minimise risk in consultation with relevant personnel
1.3 Select techniques for model making consistent with project requirements
1.4 Confirm presentation requirements, including timelines, for final scale models
1.5 Confirm equipment, materials and work space requirements
1.6 Set up work space and equipment according to safety considerations and organisational procedures

Element:

2. Complete model construction

Performance Criteria:

2.1 Use safe work practices to make preliminary models representing core dimensions in line with specifications
2.2 Review preliminary models against objectives and specifications in consultation with others
2.3 Confirm that intellectual property and other relevant legislative requirements are met
2.4 Make required adjustments to models
2.5 Complete models to project objectives
2.6 Present models to relevant colleagues in line with project and organisational requirements
2.7 Follow organisational storage and inventory procedures
2.8 Seek and use feedback from others to improve own skills

Learning Outcomes


On successful completion of this course, you will have developed and applied the skills and knowledge required to demonstrate your competency in the above elements.

During this course you will be shown different methods and meterials that will allow you to build a model of your designs.  You will work from drawings, mock-ups and CAD/CAM models to fabricate accurate and neatly finished representations of your products.


Details of Learning Activities

This course will be delivered through face-to-face classes and by utilising the learning support material and resources here in Canvas. This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to make 3-dimensional (3D) scale models in response to specifications, which may be part of a brief. The focus of this unit is on the technical skills required to make accurate scale models to designed specifications. Design skills are found in other units within the Visual Arts Craft and Design Training Package. People working in many industries require the skills and knowledge in this unit, and the unit is written to allow for contextualisation to a particular industry context. Within the cultural industries this unit is relevant for people working across multiple sectors.


Teaching Schedule

Course ScheduleSemester 1: 2020
Week Topic Readings and Activities Assessment

Week 1

 

 Introduction to course
schedules

Orientation Day
Meet the teacher and class.
Course introduction, overview and expectations.  Discuss all project work and encourage thinking on these before commencement. Demonstration of card modelling, measuring, cutting and gluing.

 Project 1

Week 2

 

 Demo/Theory/Prac Demonstration and discussion of foam core profile models.  Advantages of foam core, how to cut, sand and shape.  Use of markers, Letraset and adhesives.Continue with Project 1 Project 1

Week 3

 

 Demo/Theory/Prac Demonstration of foam sculpting.  Taking a sketch to foam via the use of cardboard templates?  Cutting, shaving and sanding foam.  Continue with Project 1, Painting demonstration Project 1

Week 4

 

 Demo/Theory/Prac Demonstration and discussion of foam turning on a lathe or on a drill.  Safety set up, dust, direction of rotation, etc.  Continue with Project 1 Project 1

Week 5

 

 Demo/Theory/Prac

Continue with Project 1.  Encourage surface refinement, accuracy and ergonomic finesse.

 

 Projects 1

Week 6

 

Pres/Demo/Theory/Prac

 Continue with Project 1 Project 1

Week 7

 

 Demo/Theory/Prac

Project 1 due.

Issue Project 2.   Resin casting.  Demonstration of mold making, casting, examples of previous work and the level of detail expected.  Continue with Project 2.  

Project 1 due.

Project 2

Week 8

 

 Demo/Theory/Prac Continue with Project 2.  Detail/graphics demonstration Project 2

Week 9

 

 Demo/Theory/Prac Painting and finishing demonstration.   Continue with Project 2 Project 2

Week 10

 

 Pres/Demo/Theory/Prac

Painting and finishing demonstration.

Issue and explain Project 3. Upscale Model Project.

 

Projects 2 and 3

Week 11

 

 Demo/Theory/Prac

Project 2 due.

Demonstrate scaling and armature construction.

Continue with Project 3.

Project 2 due.

Projects 3

Week 12

 

 Demo/Theory/Prac

Demonstrate Apoxie sculpt, mixing, application, smoothing, sanding.

Continue with Project 3.

 Projects 3

Week 13

 

 Pres/Demo/Theory/Prac

Demonstrate finishing on a lathe, sealing and sanding up to polishing.

Project 3 Checkpoint.  Continue with Project 3.

 Projects 3

Week 14

 

 Demo/Theory/Prac Continue with Project 3. Projects 3

Week 15

 

 Demo/Theory/Prac Continue with Project 3. Projects 3

Week 16

 

Demo/Theory/Prac

 

 Continue with Project 3.  Last available class access Projects 3 Due


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts


References


Other Resources


Overview of Assessment

The assessment context must provide for:
   • practical demonstration of skills using required materials, tools and equipment to make scale models for a specific workplace purpose
Assessment may incorporate a range of methods to assess performance and the application of essential underpinning knowledge, and might include: 
   • evaluation of scale models made by the candidate 
   • oral or written questioning to assess knowledge of scale model-making techniques 
   • review of portfolios of evidence
   • third party workplace reports of performance by the candidatethe candidate
Assessment methods should closely reflect workplace demands and the needs of particular groups (eg people with disabilities, and people who may have literacy or numeracy difficulties eg speakers of languages other than English, remote communities and those with
interrupted schooling).

The RMIT student charter summarises your responsibilities as a student as well as those of your teachers. http://mams.rmit.edu.au/kh6a3ly2wi2h1.pdf


Assessment Tasks

Assessment task 1. Practical

Due: week 7

Assessment task 2. Practical

Due: week 10

Assessment task 3. Practical

Due: week 16


Assessment Matrix

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