Technical Drawing for Engineering students
In a subject of the curriculum of the degree on Instituto Superior de Engenharia at University of Algarve, students learn foundations of technical drawing including perspectives, layouts, spaces, measurement units, etc. With the aim of practicing their abilities, the teacher give their students several printable documents with some images of isometric views of different pieces. Then, the students can visualize 3d models of the pieces deployed over the isometric views, by using a free AR app for mobile devices, called Augment. Previously, the teacher has to link the images with the corresponding 3d models for those pieces, by using the authoring environment provided along with this tool
Previous approach with Augment
Advantages
- Students can work at their own pace
- Better spatial vision.
- Allow users to interact with virtual
objects.
- Provide rich contextual customized learning environment and contents for each single individual.
Disadvantages
- There is no evidence that activity was used.
- We cannot know which models were
viewed more.
- We have to evaluate with external tools what has been learned.
- We cannot introduce new ways of communication, e.g.: explanations of the models with the teacher’s voice.
Using VEDILS teachers have now the tools necessary to deploy an Android application that include Augmented Reality
Approach with VEDILS
