CAD Assessment:Change Order Review
An assessment of engineering judgement in CAD, not of modelling speed: you will not be asked to build anything. You are given a change order exactly as it was handed back, the assembly before, the assembly after, the request the engineer received, and the acceptance criteria they wrote and signed their own name against. You review it and say what is wrong with the change, up to five findings, each ruled on by two other people who read the same packet. Three defects we found ourselves are published up front and score nothing; what is measured is what we did not find. Requires SolidWorks on Windows, and about 45 minutes.
Three ways in
A place on a board is earned per finding rather than per attempt, because most findings do not clear the checks and volume is not the thing being measured.
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Sit the assessment
Read the brief, work through the material, and hand back what you found. Up to 5 findings, dropped by submission order past the cap, so submit the ones you would defend rather than the ones you hope for.
Start the exam - 02
Check other people's findings
Two people rule on every finding, and the queue only moves if the people in it do the checking. You see the finding with the author removed from the record before it reaches you, and answer one question: does this actually happen.
Open the queue - 03
Propose material
An assessment needs two things: a real artefact, and an honest list of the problems its authors already know about. If you have both, we want it. The hard part of building these is finding work that is genuinely worth examining.
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