Spatial Awareness

• section views

• surface developments

• identifying components on a sectional elevation

• Note: you will be assessed on spatial awareness, not application of correct British Standard (BSI) conventions.

Questions on spatial awareness assess your ability to visualise the relationship between 2D and 3D views of an object. They test your knowledge of sectional views. Your skills in this area naturally develop as you produce a range of 2D and 3D graphics in the course.

An effective way to revise this topic is to select questions from past papers. You will find spatial awareness questions in every past paper.

SQA says practise these questions from past papers:

2019: question 1

2017: questions 1 (b) and 1 (c)