City and Guilds of London Institute · RQF Level 3
City & Guilds Level 3 Award in Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits8
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification11
Awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units City and Guilds of London Institute registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
2D Computer Aided DesignReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Use a layering system and different line type styles
- Change the properties of a number of drawn entities
- Edit blocks/symbols and hatched areas
- Modify continuous lines formed by a connected sequence of lines or arcs
- Use a method to remove unused items and rename other items logically
- Define and use a system for grouping objects to form blocks or libraries
- Produce isometric drawings within the 2D environment
- Define and use an adjustable co-ordinate system based on user requirements
- Use complex dimensioning routines
- Use different drawing spaces and complex multi viewing areas
- Produce ha
3D Computer Aided DesignReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Apply appropriate commands to set the 3D modelling environment
- Create and use working planes at any required position/attitude within 3D Space
- Define and use co-ordinate points at any position within 3D Space
- Apply appropriate commands to construct the whole or part of a 3D model using the best available method - surface or solid modelling
- Apply appropriate commands to modify 3D solid objects
- Apply appropriate commands to perform 3D operations on existing objects
- Apply appropriate commands to manipulate a 3D model
- Apply appropriate commands to view 3D model in a variety of display forma
Computer Aided Design Parametric ModellingReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Apply advanced features and parts modelling
- Apply advanced assembly modelling
- Link with external spreadsheets to create complex table driven parts and assemblies
- Apply advanced presentation graphics.
Re-Instate the Work Area_s_Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Re-instate the work area(s)
_2D_ CNC Co-ordinate Measuring Machine InspectionReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Inspect components produced on CNC machines
_2D_ CNC MachiningReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Set up tooling and workholding
- Load program and prove in a safe manner
- Use inspection equipment to ensure compliance with design specification
_2D_ Computer Aided Part ProgrammingReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Set up a workstation and associated hardware
- Apply grooving cycles to models.
- Post process machining information
- Import model geometry produced on a CAD system
- Produce a production plan for manufacturing component
- Apply profile strategies to model
- Apply pocket strategies to model
- Apply hole strategies to model
- Apply turning cycles for roughing and finishing diametres and faces
- Apply drilling and boring cycles
- Apply threading cycles to models
_3D_ CNC Co-ordinate Measuring Machine Inspection.Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Import CAD model and generate inspection program
- Set up machine and run inspection program
_3D_ CNC MachiningReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Set up tooling and workholding
- Load program into machine and prove in a safe manner
- Unload, clean and inspect component
_3D_ Computer Aided Part ProgrammingReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Set up a workstation and associated hardware
- Import 3D model geometry produced on a CAD system
- Produce a production plan for the component manufacture
- Apply chosen roughing strategies to model
- Apply appropriate semi-finish strategies to model
- Apply finishing strategies to 3D models
- Post process machining information
_3D_ Rapid PrototypingReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare and set up machine
- Build and post process model.
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
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Where these credits take you
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Where this can lead
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See the whole journey →How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for City & Guilds Level 3 Award in Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (QCF)
11 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute.
- 2D Computer Aided Design
- 3D Computer Aided Design
- Computer Aided Design Parametric Modelling
- Re-Instate the Work Area_s_
- _2D_ CNC Co-ordinate Measuring Machine Inspection
- _2D_ CNC Machining
and 5 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
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Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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