DIDACTIC MATERIALS SUPPORTING CAD/CAE SYSTEM TEACHING

The paper is focused on issues of alternative teaching practices of CAD/CAE systems. From the authors' point of view, traditional way of teaching these systems has been no longer adequate to the requirements of practice on the competency profile of secondary technical school graduates. Through teaching the subject Technical Graphics (taught in secondary vocational schools within the study branch Electrical Engineering and Technical Lyceum), the authors analyse strengths and weaknesses of the alternative methods proposed by them. This they do in comparison with the traditional method of teaching, which is focused on creating technical drawings in 2D form, what does not develop students' creativity. At the alternative way of teaching, emphasis is placed on 3D modelling, which also leads to a technical drawing, but beside that there is created also a 3D component. The paper presents methodological aspects of the proposed alternative way of CAD/CAE system teaching and description of teaching materials, which are currently under development and which should support this way of CAD/CAE system teaching.