Intro to CAD/CAM and Tools

By Asstt. Prof. Abhay S. Gore Dept. of Mechanical Engg. MIT (T), Aurangabad

What is Design?
Design is the human power to conceive, plan, and realize

products that serve human beings in the accomplishment of any individual or collective purpose.
Usually considered in the context of applied arts ,

engineering, architecture, and other creative endeavors

Some Popular Design Approaches

User-centered design, which focuses on the needs, wants, and

limitations of the end user of the designed artifact.

Use-centered design, which focuses on the goals and tasks

associated with the use of the artifact, rather than focusing on the end user

KISS principle, (Keep it Simple, Stupid), which strives to

eliminate unnecessary complications

Murphy's Law (things will go wrong in any given situation, if you

give them a chance)

CAD/CAM
Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer systems to

assist in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design.

Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) is the use of computer

systems to plan, manage, and control the operations of a manufacturing plant through direct or indirect computer interface with plants resources.

Need for CAD/CAM

To increase productivity of the designer

To improve quality of the design

To improve communications

To create a manufacturing database

To create and test tool paths and optimize them

To help in production scheduling and MRP models

To have effective shop floor control

Tools of CAD/CAM
AutoCAD (CAD)
Computer Aided Design or Computer Aided Drafting
For 2D and 3D design and drafting, developed and sold by

Autodesk, Inc. in 1982 Earlier primitive entities used such as lines, polylines, circles, arcs, and text But now it has solid modeling and 3D tools Has supported custom objects through its C++ API Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for customization and automation Include AutoLISP, Visual LISP, VBA, .NET and ObjectARX

AutoCAD

CATIA (CAD/CAM/CAE):
Computer Aided Three-dimensional Interactive Application By the French company Dassaults Systems Created in the late 1970s and early 1980s to develop Dassault's

Mirage fighter jet Adopted in the aerospace, automotive, shipbuilding, and other industries

CATIA
Modules of CATIA

Product Structure Part Design Assembly Design Sketcher Drafting (Interactive and Generative) Wireframe and Surface

Freestyle Shaper Digital Shape Editor Knowledge ware Photo Studio 4D Navigator (including kinematics) Manufacturing Finite Element Analysis

Pro/ENGINEER (CAD/CAM/CAE):
Is a parametric, integrated 3D CAD/CAM/CAE solution

created by Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC). First to market with parametric, feature-based, associative solid modeling software on the market Solid modeling, assembly modeling and drafting, finite element analysis, and NC and tooling functionality for mechanical engineers

Pro E

SIEMENS NX (CAD/CAM/CAE):
NX is the commercial CAD/CAM/CAE PLM software suite

developed by Siemens PLM Software.

Used in the engineering industry, especially in the

automotive and aerospace sectors.

NX is a parametric solid / surface feature-based modeler Uses the Para solid geometric modeling kernel.

UG NX

SOLID EDGE (CAD/CAE):

Intergraph in 1996 using the ACIS geometric modeling kernel it

later changed to using the Para solid kernel In 1998 it was purchased and further developed by UGS Corp In 2007, UGS was acquired by the Automation & Drives Division of Siemens AG Solid Edge is 3D CAD parametric feature solid modeling software Provides solid modeling, assembly modeling and drafting functionality for mechanical engineers It has links to many other Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) technologies

Solid Edge

SOLID WORKS (CAD/CAE):

Developed by Dassaults Systems Solid Works Corp., a

subsidiary of Dassaults Systems, S. A. (Vlizy, France)

INVENTOR (CAD/CAE):
Autodesk Inventor is a CAD software application for 3D

mechanical design, product simulation, tooling creation, and design communication, developed and sold by Autodesk, Inc. in 1999

MASTERCAM (CAD/CAM):
Founded in Massachusetts in 1983, CNC Software, Inc

Let machinists design virtual parts on a computer screen and

also guided computer numerical controlled (CNC) machine tools in the manufacture of parts It has set of predefined tool paths
including contour, drill, pocketing, face, peel mill, engraving,

surface high speed, advanced multi-axis, and many moreenable machinists to cut parts efficiently and accurately

MasterCAM

DELCAM (CAD/CAM), EDGECAM (CAM), Work NC (CAM):

Hypermesh (CAD/CAE)
Introduced by Altair Corporation

Generally modeling, for meshing the CAD model and

analysis of CAD model Have solver as Optistruct and RADIOSS

ANSYS (CAE):
General-purpose finite element analysis and computational fluid

dynamics software Best known for its ANSYS Mechanical and ANSYS Multi physics products Including static/dynamic structural analysis (both linear and nonlinear), heat transfer and fluid problems, as well as acoustic and electro-magnetic problems. CFX computational fluid dynamics and Fluent for CFD Electronic design automation (EDA) software for to simulate highperformance electronics designs found in mobile communication and Internet devices, broadband networking components and systems, integrated circuits, printed circuit boards

ANSYS

SIMULIA (ABAQUS):
Developed by HKS Inc of Rhode Island, USA

Consists of three core products: Abaqus/Standard,

Abaqus/Explicit and Abaqus/CAE. Abaqus/Standard

Syllabus
Term work shall Consists of record book on laboratory experiments studies on the following Sr. No. Practical 1. CAD exercises using any one drafting software

2.

Part modeling using some of the modeling technique (2-D)

3.

Part modeling using some of the modeling technique (3D)

4.

Component assembly in CAD and generating and modifying drawings

Part-programming on CNC Lathe machines

Part-programming on CNC Milling machines

Part-programming on CNC Drilling machines

Execution of part program for machining given profile.

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