FINAL DESIGN
FINAL DESIGN
This section is where you present your Final Design idea, ensuring that all aspects of your design are clearly communicated in a variety of ways. Your Technical Specification covers more than just a single slide in your Final Design section. It actually includes several aspects of this part of your NEA, and is not the same as your Design Criteria (which is sometimes referred to as 'Technical Requirements').
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You will need to complete:
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An evaluation and update of your Design Criteria
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CAD of your final design, including exploded views, and proof of concept for any technical elements
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Technical drawings (generated in OnShape)
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A render of your CAD alongside your vision for how it might be marketed
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User feedback
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A Technical Specification including an analysis of manufacturing your product in a workshop vs commercially, and any bought-in parts.
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EVALUATE DESIGN CRITERIA
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Add a new page at the END of your ‘ Final Development Section’
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Re - Copy the latest version of your Design Criteria page (you may have called this table Technical Requirements).
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Spend 10 mins updating these given that you have completed your final development. Remember: These should be more specific and measurable (eg weight, sizes, materials, strength, lumens)
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What have you discovered since you you last wrote your criteria?
How does the design idea you have arrived at help you refine these further?
Let feedback from users stakeholders guide these decisions - don’t just make them up.
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Checklist & Markscheme
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Each aspect of the idea has been refined and finalised.
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Appropriate media/methods to communicate the viability of the design have been used (3D CAD, exploded views, video or audio, rendered images etc.)
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Presentation of the final design solution for approval by users and stakeholders prior to producing a full technical specification for manufacture.
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A record of any further comments, suggestions and feedback from users and stakeholders, with modifications to be made in the technical specification.
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Use of media and methods appropriate to the scale and extent of the project, and the design solution itself.
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Formal drawings, including dimensions, labelled component parts and details for assembly.
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Details of bought-in components and suppliers.
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Sufficient explanation of functionality and intentions that can't be explained on a drawing.
