NOW with Version 8 updates!
Pro/DESKTOP - a wonderful program and it's FREE! But perhaps not the most intuitive application you've ever come across.
Gathered in these pages is a selection of worksheets that I have used to introduce my students to Pro/DESKTOP. They aim to encourage fluency in drawing skills without becoming bogged down in some of the more complex features of the program. Feel free to use them and if you have any better ones please feel equally free to share them.
NB: Procedures are normally demonstrated on the whiteboard before students attempt them, therefore the instructions assume that you can find your way around the relevant Pro/DESKTOP icons. If this is a problem then open Pro/DESKTOP and allow the cursor to hover over each icon in turn. A tag should appear telling you what it does.
An Introduction to the main features of Pro/DESKTOP:
| Pro/DESKTOP 1 | Getting Started with 3D Modelling | Pro/DESKTOP 7 | Duplicating Design Components |
| Pro/DESKTOP 2 | Using the Scissors Tool | Pro/DESKTOP 8 | Producing Working Drawings |
| Pro/DESKTOP 3 | Using the Revolve command | Pro/DESKTOP 9 | Using Text |
| Pro/DESKTOP 4 | Simple Assembly Procedures | Pro/DESKTOP 10 | Shelling a solid 3D form |
| Pro/DESKTOP 5 | Using the Sweep feature | Pro/DESKTOP 11 | Putting it all Together |
| Pro/DESKTOP 6 | Form Flow to create free-form objects | Pro/DESKTOP 12 | Accurate Assembly |
| Clock Project | Year 8 Architectural Clocks | CD Rack | Year 10 Resistant Materials |
Jim Rowley
Balcarras School,
East End Road
Charlton Kings
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
GL53 8QF
Tel. no. 01242 515881
Email: jjr@balcarras.gloucs.sch.uk
© Jim Rowley 2005