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Autocad Project Report
Autocad Project Report
ON
AUTO-CAD
Author
Harpreet Singh
Scope of CAD/CAM/CAE
Integrated CAD/CAM/CAE Softwares like Pro/Engineer, I-DEAS & CATIA
help manufacturers optimize product concept early in Design process,
enabling them to significantly improve product quality, while reducing
product development time and cost
Moreover people having 3D CAD/CAM/CAE knowledge have better
chances of growth, immediate employability after completion of course,
graduation and chances of jobs abroad.
As the market economy opens more and more it has become extremely
competitive and with this state of economy, skilled people play the most
important role in organization. Hence it becomes imperative on the part of
top Tool Room Training centers and Engg. Colleges to especially look for
new initiatives towards improving the skills and knowledge of students.
An emerging trend of Engg. Education in Tool Room and the world is the
rapid incrementation of CAD/CAM/CAE software as an essential part of
curriculum.
Process M/C
M/C Tool
Defence
Automobile
Auto Ancillaries
CAD
CAM
TOOL PATH
GENERATION
MASTER
MODELER
SHEET METAL
DESIGN
MOLD
CAE
SIMULATION
PIPE
DESIGN
DESIGN
STATIC ANALYSIS
(WHEN BODY IS IN
STATE OF REST)
DYNAMIC ANALYSIS
(WHEN BODY IS IN
STATE OF MOTION)
GEOMETRIC MODELLING: Design involves the development of the shape and dimensions of a
component. During designing several factors are to be considered
simultaneously. Some of them are stress requirements, method of
manufacture. Geometric modeling is the first step in CAD. A geometric
model is created on the screen using different techniques. Once creating this
model can be easily altered in geometry and configuration to yield a
satisfactory shape. The next step is deciding on the exact dimensions. The
results of geometric modeling will further be use by CAM in the preparation
of NC tapes for the component.
assemblies can be created interactively and plotted in about one tenth of the
normal time. Automated drafting has resulted in enormous productivity
gains in terms of time, labour and expenses.
EXPERT SYSTEMS: The latest development in CAD is the use of Expert systems. An
Expert system has an intelligent data-base called knowledge base and
reasoning logic. It may contain, for example, the details of the breakdowns
that occurred in the industry. On a later date, the user has only to feed in the
conditions under which a breakdown occurred. The expert system discovers
the reason for the breakdown. This is only one application of expert systems.
Wherever decision making under multiple constraints is involved expert
systems are used as logic support systems.
SPECIFICATION AND
REQUIREMENTS
FEASIBILITY STUDY
CREATIVE DESIGN
SYNTHESIS
DETAILED DESIGN
PROTOTYPE BUILDING
AND TESTING
PRODUCT RELEASE
RECOGNITION OF A NEED
This aspect of design can have its origin in many numbers of
sources. Customer reports on the product function and quality may force a
redesign. The starting point of a design project is a hypothetical need which
may have been observed in socio-economic scene. The need may be existing
or may not yet exist, but the evidence may be existing that the need is latent.
The following points will help at this stage:
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FEASIBILITY STUDY
Once the problems need has been established and the
specifications have been prepared, accepted and submitted, the feasibility
study is done. The purpose of this study is to check the possibility of success
or failure of the purposed project both from technical and economic
standpoint. In this study, various questions are to be answered.
1. Is any natural law being defied?
2. Are some of the specifications beyond what is technically
available at present?
3. Is there any dependence on source materials?
4. Will the cost of the end product be too high?
The persons doing the feasibility study will be the engineers with strong
design background, knowledge of engineering science, a good knowledge of
DETAILED DESIGN
Many designers often miss many of the activities of the detailed
design phase of the design process, particularly for smaller jobs, because so
much of the detailing in the sense of component design is already done in
the preliminary design phase. This phase of the design work consists of two
major activities:
(1)
(2)
PRODUCT RELEASE
Production prototype are usually made and tested, and any
drawback that can be easily corrected is generally referred back to
preliminary design and development or to detailed design for alteration.
ADVANTAGES OF CAD
CAD can make a draft men much more efficient. Depending
upon the drafting task, two to ten times productivity improvement is not
uncommon when using a CAD system .The following are the advantages of
using CAD over manual drafting: -
REVISIONS: One of the most time-consuming tasks that a draft man performs is
making changes to existing drawings. With a CAD system, revisions are
much faster than manual methods. After a drawing has been completed, it is
stored and can be recalled at any time to make changes easily.
SPEED: In almost all areas of drafting, CAD is faster than manual drawing.
This is especially true as the operator becomes more proficient through
continued use of the system
NEATNESS: After the drawing has been produced on screen, it can be drawn on
paper with a plotter. The mechanical plotting of a drawing produces clean,
accurate and neat drawings using proper line weight and consistency, and
sharp, consistent lettering.