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Me 6501 Computer Aided Design BRANCH: Mechanical Department Year / Sem: III / V

This lesson plan provides an overview of a computer aided design course. It is divided into 5 units covering fundamentals of computer graphics, geometric modeling, visual realism, assembly of parts, and CAD standards. Each unit lists topics that will be covered in a given number of periods. The objectives are to introduce how computers are used for mechanical component design. In total, the lesson plan allocates 45 hours but 49 hours are required to cover all the specified topics.

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Me 6501 Computer Aided Design BRANCH: Mechanical Department Year / Sem: III / V

This lesson plan provides an overview of a computer aided design course. It is divided into 5 units covering fundamentals of computer graphics, geometric modeling, visual realism, assembly of parts, and CAD standards. Each unit lists topics that will be covered in a given number of periods. The objectives are to introduce how computers are used for mechanical component design. In total, the lesson plan allocates 45 hours but 49 hours are required to cover all the specified topics.

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LESSON PLAN

ME 6501 COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN


BRANCH : Mechanical Department
Year / Sem : III / V
Subjected handled by: R.Kishore

OBJECTIVES:

To provide an overview of how computer are being used in mechanical component


design

UNIT – I FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER GRAPHICS No. of periods specified: 9

No. OF
S.NO TOPIC
PERIODS
1 Introduction of computer graphics, graphics display 1
2 Product cycle and need of design process 1
3 Sequence and concurrent engineering 1
4 Computer Aided Design and computer architecture 1
5 Various co-ordinate system 1
6 2D and 3D transformation – point about an arbitrary axis 1
7 Homogenous – representation, co-ordinates of point p 1
8 Line drawing and coons 1
9 Various viewing and transformation - inverse 1
UNIT – II GEOMETRIC MODELING No. of periods specified: 9

No. OF
S.NO TOPIC
PERIODS
1 Representation of curves 1
Hermite curve, Bezier curve – for various control, modifications, convex
2 1
hull
3 B-spline curve – approximates data point, interpolates data points 1
4 Rational curves 1
5 Techniques for surface modeling 1
6 Surface patch 1
7 Coons – boundaries, Boolean sum, derivatives and bi-cubic patches 1
8 Bezier and B-spline surfaces 1
9 Solid modeling techniques 1
10 CSG- trees and B-rep – basic elements, euler equation, building operations 1

UNIT – III VISUAL REALISM No. of periods specified: 9

No. OF
S.NO TOPIC
PERIODS
1 Introduction to visualization, model clean up 1
2 Hidden line – visibility, removal, surface test, algorithms 1
3 Hidden surface – removal, z-buffer algorithms 1
4 Hidden solid - solid removal algorithms, ray tracing 1
5 Shading techniques – models, diffuse reflection, ambient light, phong 1
6 Color methods – models, RGB model, CMY model 1
7 Various Computer animation – need for motion and animation 1
8 Animation types, animation techniques, key frame techniques 1
9 Simulation technique, animation problems 1
UNIT – IV ASSEMBLY OF PARTS No. of periods specified: 9

No. OF
S.NO TOPIC
PERIODS
1 Assembly modeling – difference between part and assembly modeling 1
2 Interface of position and orientation – WCS method, mate method 1
3 Tolerance analysis – conventional tolerances, geometric tolerance 1
4 Mass property calculation 1
5 Simulation mechanism 1
6 Techniques used in simulation 1
7 Techniques used in interface checking 1
8 Difference between tolerances and fit 1
9 Assembly – top to bottom and bottom to top 1

UNIT – V CAD STANDARDS No. of periods specified: 9

No. OF
S.NO TOPIC
PERIODS
1 Standard for computer graphics 1
2 Graphical Kernel system 1

3 Standard for exchange images 1


4 Open graphics for library 1
5 Data exchange standards 1

6 IGES technique – use to convert part files 1

7 STEP and CAL method – architecture and implementation 1

8 Various communication standards 1

9 Graphics - GUI 1

Total no. of periods allotted: 45hrs


Total no. of periods required: 49hrs

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