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CAD/CAM
Course Code:13ME1138

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Course Educational Objectives:

To make the student understand

Basic understanding of modern trends in design and manufacturing

using CAD/CAM

Advanced aspects of enabling computer aided technologies used in

design

Fundamental theories and technologies in computer aided

manufacturing

Course Outcomes:
The student will be able to

Explain different types of modeling techniques

Perform various geometrical transformations

Explain numerical control in manufacturing

Explain the concept of group technology, adaptive control and FMS

Write NC part program for simple machining operations

UNIT-I
(14 Lectures)
Introduction to CAD/CAM: Product cycle, design process, application
of computers for design, benefits of CAD, CAD / CAM hardware:
Design workstation, graphics terminal, input devices, output devices,
CPU, storage devices.
COMPUTER GRAPHICS:

Coordinate systems, database structures for graphic modeling, two

dimensional and three dimensional transformations scaling, rotation,
reflection, rotation about an axis, concatenation
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UNIT-II

(12 Lectures)

GEOMETRIC MODELLING:

Requirements, geometric models, geometric construction methods, wire

frame model, wireframe entities, parametric curve representation method,
parametric representation of synthetic curves, hermite cubic splines, Bezier
curves, B-splines, rational curves
SURFACE AND SOLID MODELLING:

Surface model, surface entities, surface representation, Parametric

representation of surfaces, plane surface, ruled surface, surface of
revolution, tabulated cylinder, Hermite Bi-cubic surface, Bezier surface,
B- Spline surface, COONs surface, solid modeling, solid
representation,boundary representation (B-rep), constructive solid
geometry (CSG).
UNIT-III

(12 Lectures)

NUMERICAL CONTROL:

Basic components of NC system, NC procedure, coordinate systems,

NC motion control systems, applications, adaptive control
CNC PROGRAMMING:

Part programming fundamentals, manual part programming, preparatory

functions, miscellaneous functions, canned cycles, computer aided part
programming, APT language structure, geometry commands, motion
commands and post processor commands.
UNIT-IV

(10 Lectures)

GROUP TECHNOLOGY:

Introduction, part families, parts classification and coding, features of

parts classification and coding system, OPITZ, MICLASS, Product
Flow Analysis, composite part concept, machine cell design and
applications.
COMPUTER AIDED PROCESS PLANNING:

Introduction, retrieval CAPP system, generative CAPP systems, benefits

of CAPP.
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UNIT-V

(12 Lectures)

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS:

Introduction, types of FMS, components, FMS layout configurations,

computer control system, human resources, applications and benefits.
CIM: Integration, CIM implementation, benefits of CIM, introduction to
lean manufacturing.
TEXT BOOKS:
1.
P.N. Rao, CAD / CAM Principles and Applications, TMH,
2nd Edition, 2008.
2.
M.P. Groover and E.W. Zimmers, CAD/CAM, PHI,
1st Edition, 1995.
REFERENCES:
1.
Ibrahim Zeid, CAD / CAM Theory and Practice, TMH,
Special Indian Edition, 2007.
2.
T.K. Kundra, P.N. Rao and N.K. Tewari, Numerical control
and computer aided manufacturing, TMH, 1st Edition, 2002.
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G V P College of Engineering (Autonomous)

2013