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Premium 16:9 YouTube thumbnail (1920x1080) for a professional aerospace engineering CAD course. CORE CONCEPT — ONE PARTIALLY-BUILT CAD ASSEMBLY: A single aircraft, mid-construction, matching the attached reference exactly: whichever component is already rendered as a solid, fully shaded surface in the reference stays solid, fully rendered and brightly lit — the visual star. Whichever components are already shown as line-only/wireframe in the reference stay as a thin electric-cyan wireframe overlay sitting directly on their own true geometry, in their correct position on the aircraft. Do not solidify any currently-wireframe part and do not wireframe the currently-solid part. The unbuilt parts stay attached and in place; they are the same aircraft, just not yet surfaced. Boundaries follow the real component seams already present in the reference — never arbitrary masking. Think: a SolidWorks assembly where one part is fully modeled and the rest are still reference sketches. The viewer instantly reads "this part is done, the rest is coming." UPLOADED MODEL: The attached CAD render is the exact hero subject. Preserve its geometry, proportions, silhouette, curvature, cross-sections, component positions, surface detail, and its existing solid/wireframe split with total fidelity. Do not redesign, simplify, substitute a generic airplane, or change which parts are built vs. unbuilt. WIREFRAME OVERLAY SPEC (apply to whichever parts are already wireframe in the reference): Thin, precise CAD-style lines — quad mesh plus isoparametric surface curves, small bright vertex dots at intersections, moderate line density (readable at thumbnail scale, never a dense scribble). Faint cyan illumination, roughly 40% of the solid part's visual weight. The unbuilt geometry beneath shows through as a very faint dark-translucent form, so the parts read as present but hollow. Not a hologram, not a floating duplicate, not a separate object. SOLID COMPONENT TREATMENT (apply to whichever part is already solid in the reference): Smooth premium CAD surfaces, light-grey aluminium and matte-white composite, crisp edges, subtle panel lines, clean controlled reflections, soft ambient occlusion, sharp specular highlights along the spine. Photoreal product-visualization quality. COMPOSITION: Aircraft in a dynamic three-quarter perspective, nose toward upper-right, tilted about 15 degrees, viewed slightly from below for authority. Occupies the right 60-65% of frame, bleeding slightly past the right edge. Left 35-40% reserved for typography on a clean dark field. Bottom-right 20% kept quiet for the duration stamp. Do not distort proportions to fit the frame. TYPOGRAPHY (left column, flush-left, stacked): - Amber pill badge, uppercase, letter-spaced: "LECTURE 01" - Massive bold condensed geometric sans in white: "FUSELAGE" — dominant element, ~4x badge height, tight tracking - Thin cyan rule beneath - Medium-weight light-grey uppercase sub-line: "SOLIDWORKS AIRCRAFT MODELING" - Small clear area bottom-left for a logo lockup Modern industrial geometric sans (Eurostile / Bank Gothic / Archivo Condensed character). Razor sharp, high contrast, no bevels, glow, outlines or drop shadows. BUILD-PROGRESS BAR: Slim horizontal bar low in the left column — first segment filled amber, remaining segments dim cyan outlines, with small text "01 / 08". Communicates a structured course, not a one-off video. BACKGROUND: Deep graphite-navy gradient, darkest upper-left and lower corners, soft cool radial glow behind the aircraft for separation. Low-opacity technical layer: fine engineering grid, a few thin cyan dimension lines with arrowheads, faint orthographic top-and-side silhouettes of the same aircraft in one corner, understated measurement arcs, a hinted sketch plane. Softly out of focus, secondary, never competing. Slight vignette. LIGHTING: Studio three-point. Cool white key from upper-left at 45 degrees concentrated on the solid part of the aircraft, restrained cyan rim along the right edge, subtle warm fill lower-right. Soft contact shadow and faint mirrored reflection on an implied dark glossy floor. The wireframe sections receive far less light. Engineering showroom, not sci-fi. COLOR (strict): background #0A1220 to #101C2E; wireframe and technical lines electric cyan #00C2FF; amber #FFA51F only on the lecture badge and active progress segment; solid part in neutral aluminium grey and matte white; text white and #C6D0DC. No other hues. DEPTH: Sharp foreground aircraft, mid-ground dimension lines, soft blurred background grid. Light atmospheric haze between planes. READ-IN-ONE-SECOND TEST: Bold recognizable aircraft silhouette at 210x118 pixels, one dominant word, high figure-ground contrast, nothing busy behind the text, no meaning carried by fine detail. Style: premium technical course branding, aerospace keynote quality, restrained and credible. Zero clickbait energy. Ultra sharp, high dynamic range, professional colour grading.