CAD

Drawing

Initial visualization of design ideas for VLE discussion

In the first 2-3 weeks of the project you will want to discuss your initial design ideas with the other members of your team using the VLE. You can exchange ideas by posting drawings on the bulletin board. You can do this in the following ways:
- Hand sketches which you can scan and post on your team's forum (quick and easy!)
- Use Google sketch up. You can download a free version of Google sketch-up from http://sketchup.google.com/product_suf.html . It's relatively easy to use and may be useful when exchanging 3D ideas and concepts. Please note you CANNOT submit sketchup drawings to the CUED NAGTY support team for final component manufacture.
- On the DVD, distributed in the first few weeks of the project, you can access Qcad which is a 2D drawing package. Participants do not have to be logged on to their NAGTY account to use this software; it runs locally on your PC. Note - we can use these drawings to manufacture components at the end of the project.

Production of design drawings for component manufacture.

During the final stages of this project your team will need to submit design drawings to the CUED NAGTY support team. This allows us to manufacture any components before the finale in January. The deadline for initial design drawings is 9 March and for final drawings on 30 March. We can accept 2D drawings from Qcad and drawings from ProE.

If you have any problems producing your drawings please discuss this with your team mentor.

3D CAD - Pro/E Wildfire

NB To use ProEngineer you need to be connected to the Internet and logged into your CUED NAGTY account.

Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2 tutorial

• Part I - Introduction Overview of CAD and one approach to constructing components within ProEngineer.
• Part II - Parts - Worked Examples Simple part construction and 2-D drawing.
• Part III - Assemblies - Worked Examples Simple static assemblies, use of predefined parts, assembly drawings.
• Hints on the use of Pro/E for Sheet Metal Design (pdf)

• Mini-manual (Introduction to making parts) (pdf)
• Quick Reference Guide (pdf)
• Changes in Wildfire 2 (pdf)

Marian Bozdoc of MB solutions has written an interesting "History of CAD" if you are interested in finding out more about the development of this technology.