BMA504: COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN - III

Credits: 3
LTP 300
Course Introduction: The course of Computer Aided Design – III aims to provide the students
concepts of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing for the drafting and detailing, visual realism of
the designed parts and animations of the various working assemblies. This course also includes concepts
of reverse engineering and its integration with the other technologies.
Course Outcomes: After the successful completion of this course the student will be able to:
CO1: Correctly identify and apply GD&T practices to parts and drawings and apply suitable tolerances
to mating parts and features, to ensure assembly fit and functionality.
CO2: Render the various parts under design to check for the real environment
CO3: Animate the various working assemblies to check for interferences between different parts.
CO4: Generate the point cloud data for the existing part and then converting it into 3D models and
applying the various post processing techniques for noise reduction.
Course Content:
Unit - I
Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing:
Introduction: Geometric product definition principles, geometric characteristic symbols, Geometric
Dimensioning and Tolerancing, tolerance zone conversion; surfaces, features, features of size, datum
features, fits & allowances, advantages of GD&T, direct vs indirect tolerancing, Maximum Material
Condition (MMC) (meaning & use); Least Material Condition (LMC) (meaning & use); Regardless of
Feature Size (RFS), types, characteristics and symbols, MMC and its ramifications
Datums: Relations between individual features, Virtual Condition and Resultant condition Boundaries:
Virtual condition (MMC concept & a functional boundary), Effect of LMC; wall thickness calculation.
Datum Feature of Size Representation: Modes of datum feature representation; angular orientation.
Form Controls: flatness; straightness: circularity; free state variation; circularity Orientation Controls:
orientation characteristics; angularity; perpendicularity Profile; line element controls Run out: circular
& total Location: concentricity; the return of symmetry; position
Unit - II
Visual Realism:
Introduction to Visual Realism, Hidden Line removal algorithm – Priority algorithm, Hidden Surface
removal algorithms – Z-buffer algorithm, Painter’s algorithm, Warnock algorithm, Hidden Solid
removal algorithm – Ray tracing algorithm, shading and various shading techniques, colouring and
colouring model.
 Unit - III
Mechanism Design and Animation:
Types and functions of joints, types of mechanisms, computer animation – introduction, application of
animation in CAD, types of animation – 2D, 3D and VFX.
Unit - IV
Reverse Engineering:
Introduction: Scope and tasks of Reverse Engineering (RE), Process of duplicating, Definition and use
of Reverse Engineering, Reverse Engineering as a Generic Process.
Tools and Techniques for RE: Object scanning: contact scanners, noncontact scanners, destructive
method, coordinate measuring machine, Point Data Processing: preprocessing and post processing of
captured data, geometric model development, construction of surface model, solid model, noise
reduction, feature identification, model verification
Integration: Cognitive approach to RE, Integration of formal and structured methods in reverse
engineering, Integration of reverse engineering with rapid prototyping technique and reuse. Legal
Aspects of Reverse Engineering: Introduction, Copyright Law

Recommended Books:
1. Ibrahim Zeid (2018), Mastering CAD/CAM, McGraw Hill Education.
2. P. N. Rao (2004), CAD/CAM : Principles and Applications, Tata McGraw-Hill.
3. M. Groover and P. Mikell (1984), CAD/CAM Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing,
Englewood Clifffs : Prentice Hall.