Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine job requirements
- Prepare to produce 2-D patterns
- Read and interpret preliminary drawings, sketches or diagrams provided by customer or developed by the enterprise
- Determine missing dimensions or other unknown features of the proposed product through consultation with customer or enterprise personnel
- Read, interpret and apply workplace procedures and instructions
- Identify appropriate computer applications and key in required information or transfer from other sources to initiate design or production processes
- Mark out and cut out shapes
- Construct 2-D drawings based on customer information, using appropriate software applications
- Make appropriate adjustment for shrinkage and other allowances, as required
- Mark out and cut shapes, such as 2-D component shapes, based on customer or workplace information, and cut out using a plotting table and appropriate software applications
- Check finished work is accurate and conforms with specifications
- Perform calculations
- Save, document and communicate data