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Workshop / Design
Design Station
Draft product, architecture, interior, art, and textile ideas with dimensioned SVG — including MakerJS DXF and JSCAD STL export paths for making-oriented teaching.
AI can draft. You decide what the class sees.
What Design is
Design is a drafting and visual-making Station. Build dimensioned SVG across drafting, product, architecture, interior, art, and textile — with view controls for units and standards, and MakerJS DXF plus JSCAD STL export paths when making is part of the lesson.
That matters because design teaching needs precision and intention together. Show orthographic views, plans, colour systems, or garment blocks — then export the file the next tool or workshop needs.
Why teachers use Design
Technical drawing
Orthographic, sections, GD&T, and flat-pack nets with dimensions that stay honest.
Product thinking
Parametric solids, exploded assemblies, ergonomics, and mass-property views.
Architecture and interior
Plans, elevations, circulation, kitchen zones, and lighting layouts.
Art and textile
Colour systems, grids, type anatomy, repeat units, and garment blocks.
On TeachForge, Design is a Workshop Station — draft here, then take SVG, DXF, or STL where making continues.
Inside the Design Station
Like the rest of the Workshop, Design keeps configuration and preview together — with drafting view controls built in.
- Six tabs — Drafting, Product, Architecture, Interior, Art, Textile — each with sub-modes
- View bar for units, ISO/ANSI standard, dimensions, grid, snap, title block, wireframe, fit, and reset
- Layers panel and a product 3D panel with SVG isometric fallback when needed
- Advanced JSON Apply / Sync for full package control
- Export SVG / PNG / JSON / DXF / STL for screen, board, and making pathways
- Parametric catalogue, templates, share, embed, and Whiteboard send
How a package becomes a design drawing
Open a design tab package or template
Start from drafting, product, architecture, interior, art, or textile.
Adjust dimensions, layers, and view-bar settings
Or Apply JSON — the SVG (or 3D panel) updates with the design.
Export the format you need, or send it live
SVG and PNG for teaching; DXF and STL when making is next.
One drawing. Every version of it.
Design supports parametric packages with dimension and standard controls — so the same orthographic, plan, or block can reopen with new measurements, units, or audience-ready styling without redrafting from zero.
Change it while you teach
Retune a dimension, flip a layer, or switch standards mid-critique.
Keep the structure, vary the sizes
Tomorrow’s brief can use the same drawing skeleton with new constraints.
From idea to file
DXF and STL keep making-oriented lessons connected to external tools.
Stay close to assessment
Save JSON and reuse drawings inside questions and labs.
Prefer a freehand SVG sketch instead? SVG Editor is the sibling Station. Design is for dimensioned, discipline-structured drafting.
Ready-made design starts to open
Open a tab and begin with teaching-ready modes:
| Area | What you can open |
|---|---|
| Drafting | Orthographic; Section & hatch; GD&T; Flat-pack nets |
| Product | Parametric solids; Exploded assembly; Ergonomics; Mass properties |
| Architecture & interior | Floor plan; Elevation; Circulation; Solar & shadow; Room layout; Kitchen zone; Lighting |
| Art & textile | Colour systems; Composition grids; Type anatomy; Tessellation; Repeat unit; Garment block; Seam allowance |
AI help, your way
Need a first draft? Use AI as an assistant — then review, edit, and approve before anything reaches learners.
Copy the prompt
Generate a ready-made prompt and paste it into the chat tool you already use.
Use your own GPU
Connect a local model endpoint in your settings and run generation on hardware you control.
Use your own API key
Add your provider key in settings, choose the model, and generate with your own account.
AI can be wrong. That is exactly why a teacher stays in the loop.
Take the drawing where teaching happens
- Whiteboard — put it on the live board and adjust it in front of the class
- Quest Ladder — drop it into questions and explanations
- Virtual Lab — reuse it inside interactive lab work
- Community — share what you built, and build on what other educators shared