NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ROURKELA

IV Year B.Tech 8th Semester Mechanical Engineering-Mid Examination

Course: ‘Computer Aided Design and Graphics’ (ME4138)-Spring 2022-23

Marks: 30 Duration: 2 hours

Q. Figures at the right hand margin indicate the marks Marks

No Answer all questions
Part-A
1. (i) List out any four output devices used in CAD system. 1
(ii) What are the four phases of CAD? 1
(iii) Give the basic differences between vector refresh and raster scan CRTs. 1
(iv) Draw the configuration of 3 bit-plane grey level frame buffer. 1
(v) What is display control and windowing function of graphics package? 1
(vi) Write any two applications of geometric models. 1
(vii) What is the reflection of point (1,2,3) about XY plane? 1
(viii) What are the benefits of surface models over wireframe models? 1
(ix) Name any 4 properties of parametric curves. 1
(x) Write the expression for quadratic Bezier curve. 1
Part-B
2. (a) Explain view-pipeline transformation for displaying the image at viewport. 3
(b) Describe the requirements of application programs and database. 3
(c) What is concatenation? Find the coordinates of the straight line described
with P1(1,2) and P2(5,6) when reflected about the line y=x+2. 4
3. (a) Explain blending, segmentation and transformation of parametric curves. 2
(b) Write the parametric representation of (i) Hermite and (ii) Bezier curves. 2
(c) Define rational B-spline curve and give its benefits over the normal B-splines. 2
(d) Write the parametric equations of (i) straight line (ii) 3-D helix 2
(e) Differentiate (i) interactive and generative drafting (ii) bottom-up and top-
down assembly (iii) feature based and parametric modeling approaches. 2

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