CAD & PUBLISHING LAB

Paper Code: 
CGD 133
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
60
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

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

 

Course Outcomes (COs):

Course Outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

 
 

Students will be able to:

CO9. Correctly define and use fundamental co-ordinate systems.

CO10. Apply various editing commands, patterns, layers and creating blocks.

CO11. Develop designs through drafting settings, apply dimensions and texts.

CO12. Design and develop 3D objects/ models and associating shades, materials, light source and background with them.

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

 

ESSENTIAL READINGS: 
  1. Jaiprakash Pandey and Yasser Shoukry, “Practical Autodesk AutoCAD 2021 and AutoCAD LT 2021: A No-nonsense, Beginner's Guide to Drafting and 3D Modeling with Autodesk AutoCAD”, Packt Publishing, 15May 2020.
  2. Cadfolks,”AutoCAD 2021 Beginners Guide (AutoCAD Beginners Guide)”, Paperback – Import, 4 April 2020
  3. Sandeep Dogra,” AutoCAD 2022: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users”, CADArtifex

 

 

REFERENCES: 

1.      J.T.Roberts, “Introduction to AutoCAD”, BPB Publications.

2.      George Omura, “Mastering AutoCAD”, BPB Publications, 2019

3.      Edwin Prakoso, “AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT 2012 Bible”, 2011.

4.      Martin Turner, “Desk Top Publishing with QuarkXPress 2017”, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (May 23, 2017).

 

E-Resources:

1.      https://www.javatpoint.com/autocad

2.      https://www.mycadsite.com/tutorials.html

3.      https://web.iit.edu/sites/web/files/departments/academic-affairs/academic-resource center/pdfs/Introduction_to_AutoCAD.pdf

4.      https://www.unm.edu/~bgreen/autocad/AutoCAD%201.pdf

 

Academic Year: 
2023-24
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