Preparation of a cad course in engineering drawing

Τίτλος

Preparation of a cad course in engineering drawing

Θέμα

Computer-aided design

Δημιουργός

Zantis, Michalis

Πηγή

Higher Technical Institute

Το πλήρες κείμενο είναι διαθέσιμο από το Υπουργείο Ενέργειας, Εμπορίου Βιομηχανίας και Τουρισμού

Εκδότης

Library of Cyprus University of Technology

Ημερομηνία

1999

Συνεισφέρων

Papanastasiou, Nikos

Δικαιώματα

Απαγορεύεται η δημοσίευση ή αναπαραγωγή, ηλεκτρονική ή άλλη χωρίς τη γραπτή συγκατάθεση του δημιουργού και κάτοχου των πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων

Μορφή

pdf

Γλώσσα

en

Τύπος

text

Αναγνωριστικό

MED0333

Σύνοψη

Computer - aided design (CAD) can be define as any activity that involves the effective use of the computer to create, modify, or document an engineering design. CAD is most commonly associated with the use of an interactive computer graphics system, referred to as a CAD system.
There are several important reasons for using a computer - aided design system to support the engineering design function:
1. To increase the productivity of the designer. This is accomplished by helping the designer to conceptualize the product and its components.
In turn this helps to reduce the time required to synthesize, analyze, and document the design.
2. To improve the quality of the design. The use of a CAD system with appropriate hardware and software capabilities permits the designer to do a more complicate engineering analysis and to consider a larger
number and variety of design alternatives. The quality of the resulting design is thereby improved.
3. To improve design documentation. The graphical output of a CAD system results in better documentation of the design that what is practical with manual drafting. The engineering drawings are superior, and there is more standardization among the drawings, fewer drafting
errors, and greater legibiIity.
4. To create a manufacturing data base. In the process of creating the documentation for the product design (geometric specification of the product, dimensions of the components, materials specifications, bill of materials, etc.), much of the required data base to manufacture the
product is also created.
The above reasons can give a clear indication for the importance of learn to use AutoCAD, in the best way possible according to the needs for each
designer.
Moreover a great responsibility has also the person who undertook the obligation to learn, either a person or a group of students, how to use effectively the AutoCAD.
The Instructor's Guide, which is included in this project, will give the necessary information required by anyone on how to teach AutoCAD.