MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

MOTILAL NEHRU NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ALLAHABAD

Computer Aided Design (ME15101)

B. Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) V Semester

Faculty: Dr. Praveen Kumar Agarwal

Tutorial Sheet - 1

1. For the tangent vector P0u =  4 3 5 , represent it by using its unit vector.

2. For the straight line defined by its two end-points (1, 0, 4) and (2, 0, 2), draw its cross plots
in parametric space for the parametric variable u  [0, 1] .

3. By using a straight line’s parametric equation P( u) defined by its two end-point position
vectors, P0 [2, 4, 0] and P1 [1, 5, 0], u  [0, 1] , determine P(0.4) and Pu (0.8) .

4. Derive the parametric equation of a straight line by using the geometric conditions defined by
the end-point position vector P1 and the end-point tangent vector P1u , u  [0, 1] . Also
determine the matrix representation of the line’s parametric equation.

5. Specify the parametric equation of a straight line P( u) defined by its two end-point position
vectors, P0 1, 2, 2 and P1  2, 2, 4 , u  [0, 1] . Reparameterize this equation between the
parametric limits v  [−1, 4] .

 P   2 0
6. Given a straight-line curve P( u) whose geometric coefficient matrix is B =  0  =  ,
 P1   0 6
u  [0, 1] . Truncate the curve at u = 0.2 and u = 0.7 , and reparameterize the remaining
segment (from u = 0.2 to 0.7 ) so that v  [0, 1] and find the geometric form of the
reparameterized curve Q(v ) .

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