Computer Aided Design Syllabus (R - 2013)
ME6501 - COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN
UNIT I FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER GRAPHICS
Product cycle- Design process-
sequential and concurrent engineering- Computer aided design – CAD system
architecture- Computer graphics – co-ordinate systems- 2D and 3D
transformations homogeneous coordinates - Line drawing -Clipping- viewing
transformation
UNIT II GEOMETRIC MODELING
Representation of curves- Hermite
curve- Bezier curve- B-spline curves-rational curves-Techniques for surface
modeling – surface patch- Coons and bicubic patches- Bezier and B-spline
surfaces. Solid modeling techniques- CSG and B-rep
UNIT III VISUAL REALISM
Hidden – Line-Surface-Solid
removal algorithms – shading – colouring – computer animation.
UNIT IV ASSEMBLY OF PARTS
Assembly modelling –
interferences of positions and orientation – tolerance analysis mass property calculations
– mechanism simulation and interference checking.
UNIT V CAD STANDARDS
Standards for computer graphics- Graphical
Kernel System (GKS) - standards for exchangeimages- Open Graphics
Library (OpenGL) - Data exchange standards - IGES, STEP, CALSetc. - communication
standards.
