CAD

Paper Code: 
CAI 601
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course is designed to understand the utility and working of a CAD software by taking AUTOCAD as an example.

8.00
Unit I: 

Origin: Introduction to Computer Aided Designing.

Introduction: Introduction to Autocad and its features, applications, advantages etc. Autocad Window, Pull-Down Menus, Toolbars (Draw and Modify), Opening and closing of files.

Autocad Coordinate System: Polar and Relative Cartesian Coordinates, Autocad Drawing units and limits, Setting up Drawing, Creating first drawing.

 

8.00
Unit II: 

Cursor modes, understanding prompts, choosing command options, selecting objects, editing with grips.

Autocad Modes: Grid Mode, Snap Modes, Polar Tracking.

Draw ToolBar: Mostly used 2D Drawing commands like Line, circle, polygon, Arc, rectangle ellipse, donut, Xline, Mline, Pline etc.

12.00
Unit III: 

Modify ToolBar: Mostly used Drawing Editing Commands like Erase, Copy, Mirror, Offset, Move, Rotate Scale, Stretch, Lengthen, Trim, Extend, Break, Chamfer, Fillet etc. Array of Objects.

Hatching, filling up patterns and colors etc, Blocks, Insert Block, Make Block, Explode etc.

10.00
Unit IV: 

Automated Dimensions and customization, Dimension styles, Multi-line and single line Text and Text styles, Layers, Creation and its usage, Different types of Views, View-ports, Creating and editing attributes.

10.00
Unit V: 

Introduction to 3 Dimensional Drawing: Creating a 3D drawing object, Changing 2D into 3D, viewing 3D drawings, Cube, Torus, wedge, cone, cylinder, pyramid, mesh, Dish, Dome etc.

ESSENTIAL READINGS: 

1. George Omura, “Mastering AutoCAD”, BPB Publications, 2002.

REFERENCES: 

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

Academic Year: 
2019-20
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