Design technical facilities

Discover the technical facilities for Product Design students at UWE Bristol.

Our technical spaces will help you develop essential skills for your future career, and to familiarise yourself with industry-leading equipment and tools.

Find all the essential information you need on accessing and booking the technical resources, best practice guides for project work as well as contact details for our technical staff who can offer advice and support.

Product Design student work on display.

Computer Aided Design (CAD)

This space features technical support to help you use Computer Aided Design (CAD) for Product Design.

It includes:

  • SketchUp
  • Autodesk (acad, revit)
  • Rhino
  • Parametric (Grasshopper)
  • Solidworks.

Access and booking

  • Location: 2R026, R Block
  • Booking: Contact a related technician 
  • Opening hours: Monday to Friday 09:00-17:00

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Arduino support

Technical support is available to help in the use of Arduino. 

Access and booking

  • Location: Project room and 2R026, R Block
  • Booking: Contact a related technician
  • Opening hours: Monday to Friday 09:00-17:00

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Graphic design (Adobe suite)

This space provides technical support to help you use graphic design software for product design, such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.

Access and booking

  • Location: 2R026, R Block
  • Booking: Contact a related technician 
  • Opening hours: Monday to Friday 09:00-17:00

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Photographic lighting suite

This space is a bookable photographic studio with camera equipment available to students. 

Access and booking

  • Location: 2R002 and 2R026, R Block
  • Booking: Book via Connect 2 booking system or ask in the Q Block project room
  • Opening hours: Monday to Friday 09:00-17:00

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R Block Workshops

Technical support for fabricating with plastic, wood, and card. Areas covered include:

  • model making workshop and model making machine shop
  • laser cutting
  • computerised numerical control (CNC) foam cutter
  • CorelDraw
  • Quark Xpress
  • 3D Printing.

Access and booking

  • Location: 1R008, R Block
  • Booking: Contact a related technician 
  • Opening hours: Monday to Friday 09:00-17:00 

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Virtual reality

Get technical support for virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) technology and its applications and book equipment. Areas covered include:

  • VR/AR Cave (virtual environment)
  • VR headsets.

Access and booking

  • Location: Q Block Project Room (for booking in person), online Connect 2 and 2R026, R Block
  • Booking: Use the Connect 2 for VR headsets. Contact a related technician for everything else
  • Opening hours: Monday to Friday 09:00-17:00

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Design facilities

Two 3D printers

3D printing

Two rows of 3D printers ready to use

3D printing

Photography equipment including lights and a white background

Pop-up photography

Two people preparing for product design degree show

Product design degree show preparation

A glass door which has the words 'Product Design' on it

Product design in R Block

A drone on a table

Product design technology

A stuffed hedgehog with electrical wire on its stomach connecting to a circuit board

Student project

Small wooden animals on the table during a degree show

Student project

Some technological devices are displayed in a glass cage

Student project

Student sculptures installed on the ceiling

Student sculpture installation

A person sitting on the edge of a wooden chair with creative and modern design

Student seating design project

Two 3D printers
Two rows of 3D printers ready to use
Photography equipment including lights and a white background
Two people preparing for product design degree show
A glass door which has the words 'Product Design' on it
A drone on a table
A stuffed hedgehog with electrical wire on its stomach connecting to a circuit board
Small wooden animals on the table during a degree show
Some technological devices are displayed in a glass cage
Student sculptures installed on the ceiling
A person sitting on the edge of a wooden chair with creative and modern design

Getting started

If you’re not 100% sure how or where to begin with your project, we’ve got you covered with our quick-start guide.

Getting started

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