National 5
Design and Manufacture · National 5
Product design from concept to manufacture: materials, modelling, CAD and design analysis.
What Design and Manufacture is about
Design and Manufacture follows a product from a problem to a made object: design analysis, idea generation, modelling and CAD, materials selection, and the manufacturing processes that turn a design into something real.
What it offers you
It builds design thinking and practical making skills, and leads on to product design, engineering and construction courses and careers.
Papers & marking schemes
2026
7 files2025
7 files2024
7 files2023
7 filesSQA publishes the most recent five years of papers. Older papers and specimen papers live on their site — open Design and Manufacture National 5 on sqa.org.uk.