Practice Assignments

Level 3 Award in Computer Aided Design (7689-05)

Instructions to candidates

About this document

This document contains all of the assessments for 7689-05 Level 3 Award in 2D Computer Aided
Design and assessments for unit 302 that contributes to 7689-08 Level 3 Certificate in Computer
Aided Design.

Tasks
These tasks are graded pass, merit or distinction and will be assessed by your assessor
watching how you carry out the tasks and checking your final pieces of work.
Before you carry out the task, you will be told how it will be assessed and you should read the
grading criteria at the end of each task so you know what you need to do to get each grade.
You can ask your assessor for help in understanding the task instructions, but all of the work
must be your own.

Health and safety

You must use safe working practices at all times.
You are responsible for your own safety and the safety of others. If you behave in an unsafe way,
you will be stopped and given a warning. If you do not meet all of the Health and Safety
requirements, the assessment will be stopped. Your assessor will not be able to let you try the
task again until they are sure you can work safely.

Time considerations
Each task shows how long it is likely to take. This is for guidance so you can plan your work. If
you have a good reason for needing more time you must explain this to your assessor as soon
as possible so they can decide whether you can have more time. A task may be split but must
be completed in consecutive sessions.

Security
Where an assignment is taken over more than one session, all documentation, paperwork and
work products must be labelled carefully with your name and kept securely at the centre. Your
assessor will give you directions about how to leave your work.

Opportunities to repeat tasks

The tasks are ‘end tests’ so you will only be asked to take the assessment when you have had
the chance to do all of the learning and practice you need. You will be able to try the whole task
again if you do not pass but a period of 7 days must elapse before you are allowed to retake a
task if unsuccessful; however, you will only be able to achieve a pass grade.
If you pass a task, you will not be able to take the assessment again just to try to get a better
grade.

Feedback
As well as telling you the result for the task, your assessor will give you feedback. They will give
you a feedback sheet with details of what you could do to improve, and also what you did well.
This will help you to prepare for other assessments or to retake the assessment if you need to.

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Assignment overview

This assignment consists of Task A, Task B

You are allowed 10 minutes to read the instructions carefully before starting work. Check with
your tutor / assessor to ensure that you fully understand what is required. Use of the parametric
modelling software must not commence during this period.

You will be advised of the work area and you are expected to work safely at all times in
compliance with the current legislation.

A task or its parts may be split but must be completed in consecutive sessions.

Task A – Creation of standard parts

In this task, you are required to create standard parts to be used in Task B. There are two parts
to this task:

Ai Production of a drawing template.

Aii Creation of standard parts.

The suggested overall time allowed for this task is 2 hours.

Task B – Steam engine

In this task, you are required to assemble a steam engine using a variety of methods (eg external
reference, blocks, etc). A modification of these blocks will be required to generate the final
drawing. Following this an isometric drawing of an electric guitar is required.

The suggested overall time allowed for this task is 2 hours.

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Task A Candidate instructions

Part Ai – Production of a drawing template

1. Create a new template and produce a drawing border to dimensions in Figure 1 and
save it as a drawing named 7689-302-BORDER.

2. Create and name multiple new layers (eg Border, Text, etc) to aid the construction of the
finished drawing border.

Figure 1

Note: dims not required to be shown on the finished template.

3. Create two new text styles using a suitable font. Text box headings to be entered top left
corner of each box, and to be 1 mm clear. The box title to be entered in the middle
(horizontally) of each box using a suitably larger text size as shown in Figure 1.

4. A viewport will be required on a suitable layer.

5. Insert the City & Guilds logo or other suitable logo as shown in Figure 1.

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 6. Save as drawing template file called 7689-302-BORDER.
Part Aii – Creation of standard parts

1. Produce a new drawing with the following items drawn full size, and save each as a
library item suitable for use within other drawings.
 Body Figure 1.
 Buffer Figure 2.
 Wheel Figure 3.
 Con rod Figure 4.
 Name plate with attributes Figure 5.
 Piston Figure 6.

Figure 1

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 Figure 2

Figure 3

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Figure 4

Attributed/ automated text to have

a value of 7689 in a variable format
with a suitable font and height,
located centrally to suit

Figure 5

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 Figure 6

2. Save drawing as 7689-302-STANDARD-PARTS.

This completes Task A.

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Task B Candidate instructions
Steam engine

Part Bi – Stream engine

1. Start a new drawing based on the template created in Task A called 7689-302-BORDER.

2. Attach the drawing called BODY as shown in Figure 1 as an externally referenced

drawing, and all the other parts as library items.

Figure 1

3. Edit the existing WHEEL library item to create a new library item called SMALL WHEEL,
half the original size and the boss removed from the hub as shown in Figure 1.

4. Assemble the library items as follows in Figure 2.

5. The CON ROD needs to be modified to fit between the PISTON and second WHEEL and
the attributes / automated text needs to be entered as per Figure 8.

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 Figure 2

6. Once the STEAM ENGINE has been assembled, trim out any unseen lines and produce
the following drawings in layout print space. Con rods to be solid filled.

Figure 3

7. The parts list text to be at a suitable height and centrally positioned as shown in Figure 4.

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 Figure 4
8. Create suitable scaled viewing windows, similar to that shown in Figure 5, with the
viewing window frames visible.

Figure 5

9. To complete the drawing, remove unused library items.

10. Save the drawing as STEAM ENGINE and print / plot a hard copy full size as shown in
Figure 5, or save as PDF onto a portable storage media device and hand it in with the
printed / plotted hard copy to your tutor / assessor.

This completes Task B.

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