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Paul Clewes and Gareth Pimley, Advisory Service for Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin, are writing a series of articles for DATA Practice magazine about D&T-related software which is freely available on the internet. In the next issue of the magazine they focus on West Point Bridge Designer, which converts 2-D drawings to 3-D simulations and provides a unique opportunity to develop structures work from KS2 to KS4 and beyond. The highlight of the software is the testing facility where virtual bridge designs are driven over by a virtual lorry; if the structure is successful, then the effects of tension and compression are represented through a changes in the colour in the frame. However, if the structure is not successful, the bridge collapses with lorry into a deep ravine!
To go to the download page for the software please click on this link.
Publication date: 6th September 2005
