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• Fundamentals of CAD: Introduction, the design process, application of computers for design
• Benefits of CAD
• Hardware in CAD: The design workstation, graphics terminal, operator input devices, plotters and other output devices, the central processing unit, secondary storage
• Computer Graphics Software and Data Base: The software configuration of a graphics system, functions of a graphic package
• Data base structure and content
• Constructing the geometry, wire- frame versus solid modeling
• CAD/CAM integration, creating the manufacturing data base
• Mathematical Elements of CAD: Two dimensional transformations, Translation, Scaling, and Rotation, Concatenation
• Various techniques for design optimization, finite element analysis / modeling
• Design Software: Use of different software packages employed in several Civil Engineering applications