Clock Test model

Before manufacturing any product, a Concept Model or Testing Prototype is usually produced. This enables the designer and the ‘Client / User’ to visualise the proposed design in three dimensions (3D) i.e. to handle, touch, feel, look etc., and to test the design before manufacture. This hopefully eliminates mistakes!

Before you produce your final design for your clock, you must make a full scale card model of your chosen design, and then test it by placing a clock motor behind it. To do this you should sketch out each piece (layer) onto card and cut it out. You should then assemble your separate pieces of card to make your developed design. This will allow you to test your design and show where the motor, and hands, will be positioned. 

You should take a photograph of your final model and place it in the box to the side. Then ask someone else in your group to evaluate it (i.e. improvements, changes, modifications) in the space below. This is called a peer evaluation.