The first of our 1hour free CAD workshops kicked off this morning with a full compliment of learners eager to enter the world of 3 Dimensional design and draughting.
What awaits these learners is the excitement of having their minds opened to being able to create something on the computer in 3D. Understaning the third plane. We all know X and Y, most every graphical representation that we see includes these two, price over time, time over distance, sure, you get the picture. But now it is time for the magical Z!!
I will not forget the first time I was introduced to Z. All of a sudden my lines were off into space. What looked like a perfect square with all four equal lines connected to each other was soon revealed to be some wonderful 3 Dimensionable line not connected at all. What a shock!! Pretty soon however, I was able to model something that I had created in 3D. Once I had applied my various materials, textures, surfaces and lighting, it was a thing of great beauty! Well……they say”beauty is in the eye of……….” And behold, there it was, my first cube !! But then, this was not just any cube. It was my 3D cube with bevelled edges and circular cut throughs and extrusions, blue glass, on a polished marble surface! I sat mesmerised as I was able to spin it in all directions, clockwise, counter clockwise, top to bottom bottom to top, you get the idea. The light danced off the surfaces revealing rainbows of colour and the shadows created shapes of world that I could only dream of ………..And all this was before my introduction to Z. the third dimension!!!
Soon it was a stainless steel cube and then a gold cube, Imagine the possibilities. They were seemingly endless. The lines then became curves, the curves shapes the shapes objects and my world expanded once again….
Make sure you use your opportunity get to meet the third dimension!
