CADM (M-TECH production engineering 1st)

Introduction: CAD/CAM contents and tools; history of CAD/CAM development; CAD/CAM

market trends; Definition of CAD/CAM tools, Industrial look at CAD/CAM. (3 Hours)

CAD/CAM Hardware: Introduction; types of systems; CAD/Cam systems evaluation criteria;

input devices; output devices, hardware integration and networking; hardware trends. (3 Hours)

CAD/CAM Software: Introduction; graphics standards; basic definition and modes of graphic

operations; user interface; software modules, modelling and viewing; software documentation;

software development; efficent use of CAD/CAM Software; Software trends. (5 Hours)

Microprocessor based CAD/CAM: Introduction; several features, system implementation;

hardware components and configuration; micro-based CAD software; file translation; operating

systems, mechanical applications; micro-CAD trends; product distribution trends. (5 Hours)

Mathematical Representation of Curves: Introduction; wire frame models; wire frame,

entities, curves representation, parametric representation of analytical and synthetic curves, curve,

manipulation; design and Engineering applications. (5 Hours)

Mathematical Representation of Surfaces: Introduction, surface models, surface entities,

surface representation, parametric representation of analytic and synthetic surfaces, surface

manipulation. (4 Hours)

Mathematical Representation of Solids: Introduction, solid models, solid entities, solid

representation, fundamentals of solid modelling, half –spaces; boundary representation; constructive

solid geometry sweep representation, solid modelling based applications; design and engineering

applications. (4 Hours)

Geometric Transformations: Introduction; transformation of geometric models, mappings of

geometric models; inverse transmission and mappings; projections of geometric models; design and

Engineering applications. (4 Hours)

Mechanical Assembly and Tolerancing: Introduction; assembly modelling, representative

schemes, generation of assembling sequences; tolerance concepts. (4 Hours)

Part Programming and Manufacturing: NC, CNC and DMC machines, part programming,

manufacturing processes, process planning, tool path generation; design and Engineering

applications. (4 Hours)