DESIGN AND DRAWING
Candidates were required to design a side board from the incomplete front elevation provided, making two different preliminary sketches and give the front elevation and sectional end elevation of one of them.
Comments on Question 1 and 2
- Most of the candidates repeated the same design in two places;
- no candidate correctly indicated the cutting plane on which the Sectional End is based;
- some candidates displayed poor draughtsmanship skill;
- some candidates work had no border lines, title block nor proper dimensioning
Candidates were scored according to the following guidelines:
Question 1
Two preliminary freehand pictorial sketches
- Resemblance
- Completeness
- Proportionality
- Overall dimensioning (at least four)
- Line quality
Question 2
- Front Elevation (FE)
- Indication of sketch selected
- Open side details (2 off) {2 sides, top, shelf, bottom}
- Drawer details (2 off) {front, pull, locks}
- Door detail (1 off) {hinges, handle, lock}
- Plinth details
- Indication of joints (at least 2)
- Scale
- Dimensioning (at least 4)
- Line quality
- Naming the view
- Sectional End Elevation (SEE)
- Cutting plane (See FE)
- Position in FirstAngle Projection
- Projection from front elevation
- Carcase details (top, drawers detail, plinth detail, back, bottom)
- Indication of joint (at least 4)
- Scale
- Dimensioning (at least 4)
- Line quality
- Naming the view
- Draughtsmanship (DR)
- Border lines
- Title block
- Layout
- Neatness