Additive technologies as a means of improving the efficiency of educational process for architecture and construction students

Recently, additive technologies have been actively introduced into various spheres of modern life. The paper highlights the need to develop students’ innovative thinking and shows how additive technologies can be used for that. It considers the possibilities for using additive technologies in teaching Descriptive Geometry and Engineering Graphics courses for the Architecture and Construction students at M.T. Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University. The paper also presents models printed with the use of FDM printer at the Department of Engineering Graphics and Advertising Technology, which contribute to increasing the visualization of the course content and developing students’ spatial thinking. Computer-aided design systems (KOMPAS-3D, SolidWorks) were used to develop three-dimensional models.