Report on Engineering Design

REPORT ON ENGINEERING DESIGN
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TASK 1
INTRODUCTION
CAD stands for computer aided design .CAD refers to the aid or help of computer, design any
component before it is actually manufactured.
BENEFITS
 Improves in design quality
 Improvement in design communication
 Design documentation
 Improves in designer productivity
 Creating manufacturing routes via CAD-CAM
 Easy modification in design/drawings
 High design accuracy with least error margins
 Easy accessible and usage (Lalit ,2008)
SELECTION OF CAD SOFTWARE
For 2D and 3D purpose the selected cad software that are widely used are shown below.
 AUTOCAD (2D Software)
Autocad is the 2D software generally used for preparing 2d sketches, process flow
diagrams and engineering drawings in 1st and 3rd angle projection.
Some of examples of autocad shown below .
Figure 1 -2D sketch in autocad
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Figure 2 -2D Engineering drawing in autocad
Figure 3 –Process flow diagram in autocad
 SOLIDWORKS (3D Software)
Solidworks is the 3D software generally used for preparing 3D models and
sketches ,engineering drawing of assembly , product analysis using simulation and
motion study .This software apart from creating the model also test the model on real
conditions which is not done in AutoCAD ( Yare ,2012) .
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Some of examples of solidworks shown below .
Figure 4 -3D model in solidworks
Figure 5 –Section view in solidworks
Figure 6 –Product testing in solidworks
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