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