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This work reports the experience in the implementation of a new paradigm in teaching of descriptive geometry: the Design-based learning. This paradigm changing is the result of a new approach centered on the student, seeking to develop its creativity and its own problem solving capacity based on the descriptive geometry concepts. In this sense, all the concepts and projects developed implicate working with solids. Therefore, it implies in the increasing of the concrete experience, reducing the usual abstraction level needed to learn the fundamental concepts. The proposed methodology was first implemented in some sample classes of Engineering and Design courses of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) with great success.