Category: Computer-Aided Design

After you ve opened a window, you can maximize it to display full-screen. You can also minimize it so that it disappears from the desktop and resides as a button on the Windows Taskbar, and you can close it completely. TIP Restoring a Window If a window is already maximized, the Maximize button changes to…

When you first start AutoCAD, the initial screen contains the menu bar at the top, the status bar at the bottom, the drawing window, the command window and several tool bars. Tool bars contain icons that represent commands. The menu bar contains the menu. The status bar displays the cursor coordinates and the status the…

You can start the AutoCAD by using the following procedure:

Popular packages used in 3D-Modelling are:

3D computer graphics software refers to programs used to create 3D computer-generated imagery. There are typically many stages in the ‘pipeline’ that studios use to create 3D objects for film and games, and this chapter only covers some of the software used. Note that most of the 3D packages have a very plugin-oriented architecture and…

Multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) is a field of engineering that uses optimization methods to solve design problems, incorporating a number of disciplines. It is also known as multidisciplinary optimization and multidisciplinary system design optimization (MSDO). MDO allows designers to incorporate all relevant disciplines simultaneously. These techniques have been used in a number of fields, including…

Electronic design automation (EDA) is the category of tools for designing and producing electronic systems ranging from printed circuit boards (PCBs) to integrated circuits. This is sometimes referred to as ECAD (electronic computer-aided design) or just CAD. The term EDA is also used as an umbrella term for computer-aided engineering, computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing…

Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) is the use of computer-based software tools that assist engineers and machinists in manufacturing or prototyping product components. CAM is a programming tool that makes it possible to manufacture physical models using computer-aided design (CAD) programs. CAM creates real life versions of components designed within a software package. CAM was first used…

Computer-aided engineering (often referred to as CAE) refers to the use of information technology to support engineers in tasks such as analysis, simulation, design, manufacture, planning, diagnosis and repair. Software tools that have been developed to support these activities are considered CAE tools. CAE tools are being used, for example, to analyze the robustness and…

The Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES) (pronounced eye-jess) defines a neutral data format that allows the digital exchange of information among CAD systems. The official title of IGES is Digital Representation for Communication of Product Definition Data, first published in January, 1980 by the National Bureau of Standards as NBSIR 80-1978. Using IGES, a CAD…