Constructing the geometry, wire- frame versus solid modeling
Course Material
- 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
- Chapters 10
- Department Engineering Technology
- Teacher
Engr. Aisha Butt
