CAD & PUBLISHING LAB

The students will be getting practical exposure to Computer Aided tools with an understanding to color schemes, texture and various mediums.

Learning outcome:

Students will be able to:

1. Correctly define and use fundamental co-ordinate systems.
2. Apply various editing commands, patterns, layers and creating blocks.
3. Develop designs through drafting settings, apply dimensions and texts.
4. Design and develop3D objects/ models and associating shades, materials, light source and background with them.

Learning and teaching strategies:

Approach in teaching:  Interactive Lectures, Demonstrations, Group activities

Learning activities for the students:  Effective assignments, Giving tasks.

Assessment Strategies:

Class test, Semester end examinations, Practical Assignments, Individual and group projects.

Exercises based on 2D and 3D drawings covering CAD syllabi.

1. Exercises on draw toolbar (i.e. line, point, circle, ellipse, rectangle, arc, polygon, mlines, splines.)
2. Exercises on modify toolbar (i.e. offset, mirror, copy, rotate, trim, extend, fillet & chamfer)
3. Exercises on array, hatch & blocks.
4. Exercises on layers
5. Exercises on 3D commands (i.e. cone, cylinder, pyramids, torus, cube, mesh)

Exercises based on Publishing models and graphics:

1. Creating Kerning and Tracking Tables and Hyphenation Exceptions.
2. Layout Tools
3. Creating New Print Documents, Creating New Web Documents
4. Box Basics
5. Line Basics
6. Manipulating Items: Moving, Reshaping, and Resizing Items, Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Items, Clearing and Deleting Items
7. Changing Page Size and Facing-Pages Status
8. Text Basics, Typography, Graphics in Typography
9. Pictures, Color, Trapping, Tables, Layers
10. Creating New Libraries and Books
11. Preparing Style Sheets for Lists
12. Hyperlinks
13. Interactive Web Elements
14. Creating an HTML Form
15. Printing a Web document
16. Previewing and Exporting Web Pages