MECH 410 and MECH520
Computer Aided Design

Course Homepage:    http://www.me.uvic.ca/~mech410/

Mr. Armando Tura

Office: ELW B126,   Phone: (250) 721-7295, E-mail: atura@uvic.ca

Research Interests: http://www.ensys.ca

Dr. Zuomin Dong

Office: EOW 548/551,   Phone: (250) 721-8900 (or 721-8693), E-mail: zdong@uvic.ca

     Research Interests: http://www.me.uvic.ca/~zdong/

TA: Jason Zhang

Office: ELW 239,   Phone: (250)721-6510, E-mail: xingz@uvic.ca

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Last updated March 29 /2012

Under general request final report deadline is postponed to Thursday April 5th, hard copy due in class

Course Outline

Important Dates

Project Information

Coming up:

• Presentations, 15 minutes each:
  March 19, Group 12, 11, 10, 9
  March 22, Group 8, 7, 6, 5
  March 26, Group 4, 2, 1
  
  
• Quiz II March 29 the following sections could be covered:
  • Representation of Curves
  • Representation of Surfaces
  • Geometric modeling systems
  • Some G-code basics
  • CAD date exchange to the degree it has been presented in class
  • Student presentations (one will be chosen for some high lever questions)
    
    Duration: 1 hr. 2-sided letter size allowed for hand written (not printed or scanned) notes.
    
    April 2, 5 Graduate students presentations

Lecture Notes

• Introduction to CAD/CAE/CAM and Technology Review
  
  
• Computer Hardware for CAD
  • further reading: Technical References on 3D Scanning and Computer Model Generation
    
    
• An Introduction to the Pro/ENGINEER Design Modeling System:
  • An Overview of Pro/ENGINEER
  • Pro/E Assembly Modeling and Motion Animation
    
    
• Introduction to Solidworks
  
  
• Introduction to FEA
  • A Review of Finite Element Analysis Method
  • Mesh Generation
  • An Over View of Pro/MECHNICA and Applications of Pro/M Structure
    
    
• Graphical Coordinate Systems and Basic Geometric Transformations
  • Sample Transformations
  • Rotation around arbitray axis
    
    
• Introduction to Design Optimization
  • Definition, standard mathematical form, constraints and examples
  • Search methods
  • further reading: an Article on Multiphysics CAD-Based Design Optimization
    
    
• Geometric Modeling Systems
  
  
• Unigraphics NX CAD/CAE/CAM System
  
  
  
• Representation of curves
  • Parametric representation of lines, conics, Hermites and Bezier, B-spline and Nurbs updated March 27 /2012. Minor error on B-splines section fixed.
  • Additional samples showed in class of Hermite and Bezier
  • Sample B-spline curve evaluation
    
    
• Representation of Surfaces
  • Planar, bilinear, ruled surfaces
  • Bezier, Bicubic, B-spline
    
    
• Programming in Pro/E
  
  
• Cad Data Exchange

Laboratory

• Laboratory 1 Design Modeling and Drawing (2 wks)
• Laboratory 2 Mechanical Assembly (2 wks)
• Laboratory 3 Static Structural Analysis (2 wks)updated Feb 8 /2012 - fixed due date
  
• Laboratory 4 Sensitivity Analysis and Design Optimization (2 wks)
• Laboratory 5 Automated CNC Tool Path Generation & Machining (1wk) updated CNC tutorial here

Pro/ENGINEER Tutorials and Related Documents and Video Tutorials

SolidWorks Tutorials and Related Documents

Unigraphics NX Tutorials and Related Documents

G-Code programming reference updated March 8 /2012

Additional References

• 2D Drawing Generation and 3D Modeling Using AutoCAD (see Introduction to AutoCAD)
• Introduction to C programming (see A Quick Start on C Programming)
• Introduction to AutoCAD  (Homepage of AutoDesk)
• A Quick Start on C Programming
• Programming in AutoCAD (ADS Tutorials and Lecture Notes, ARX References)
• Other Programming Issues in AutoCAD (Script File and Menus)

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