MME 1102 Section 2

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 Kulliyyah of Engineering
International Islamic University

MME 1102
COMPUTER AIDED DRAFTING
Section 2
Dr. Ahsan Ali Khan
aakhan@iiu.edu.my
Ext.4473
Lecturer Room, Level 2, E0 Building
 RULES AND REGULATIONS
• NO internet allowed during class hour and
hence no downloading.
• Attendance must include PC no. If you move
or change places please indicate in the attendance
sheet.
• NO copying of other student’s assignment.
• NO late submission. Assignment submission
system will be disabled after class hour.
 METHOD OF EVALUATION
Semester 1, 2007/2008

• Quiz 1 : 15%
• Quiz 2 : 20%
• Quiz 3 : 25%
• Project : 10%
• Class Assignment : 15%
• Home Assignment : 5%
• Selective Class Assignment : 10%
 SLIDE DOWNLOAD
• Lecture notes for this section are
available on website - (select option SAVE):
For week 1
http://10.101.129.230:8080/handout/mkarim/cad-week1.ppt

For week 2, it should be

http://10.101.129.230:8080/handout/mkarim/cad-week2.ppt
and for week 9
http://10.101.129.230:8080/handout/mkarim/cad-week9.ppt
 ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION
http://10.101.129.230:8080/cad.php
• Student are required to enter:
• Matric no.
• Name : First name
• Assign no. : select the appropriate one
• File : filename should follow the following:

Class assignment : c#w#-matric#

Home assignment: h#w#-matric#
For ex. Student’s Matric No: 0123456
week 1 class assignment no. 1 = c1w1-0123456
week 4 home assignment no. 1= h1w4-0123456
week 5 class assignment no. 2= c2w5-0123456
• When submitting assignment online, student must use
their own computer.

• At the end of every class, student must submit the given

class assignment. For submission. additional 5 minutes will be given
after normal class time after which the system will be disabled.

• Home Assignment will have to be submitted on the

following class. You can submit anytime on class day.
Late submission will not be entertained.
Please record your sending code for future reference
 Week 1
(a) Introduction to CAD
(b) Starting up Sketcher Workbench
(c) Setting up Sketcher: Unit & Grid Setting
(d) Basic Drawing Function:
Point/Line/Circle/Arc/Rectangle/Profiles
 Introduction to CAD
• CAD is just a system that allows user to create or modify
mechanical/electrical/architectural drawings.

• CAD has been introduced even prior to 1960’s. In the early

industrial development in 1960’s:
– General Motors – DAC (Design Automated by Computer)
– McDonnell Douglas – CADD
http://mbinfo.mbdesign.net/CAD-History.htm

• At present, there are many CAD softwares available in the

market, e.g. Autocad, CATIA, Solidworks, Pro. E,
Unigraphics, I-DEAS, etc.

• For this course and for this semester we are using– ALIBRE.
Where is CAD in Product Design
Concept?

www.mit.edu
 Major benefits of CAD
• Productivity (=Speed) increases
• Supports changeability
– Do not have to redo entire drawing with each change

• Ease Communication
– With other design team
– With other applications (CAE/FEM/CAM)
– Marketing (realistic product presentation)

• Better Visualization of Drawings

• Analysis
• Simulation and Testing of Design
 A Standard CAD Process
Engineering Sketch Start

Setting Unit, Grid (snap), etc

dim
Circle, Point, Hole, Draft, Rib,
Line, Arc, 2D 3D Fillet, etc
Pad, Shafts, Pocket etc.
Spline, Revolve,
Corner, etc.
Annotations
Dimensions

CAD File
Output Drawing (dxf)
 ALIBRE
• There are 4 specified settings in Alibre.
Each setting consists of a set of tools,
which allows the user to perform the
specific design tasks in a particular area.
• The basic setting that we are going to
learn in this course are :
1. New Part= 2D and 3D
2. New Assembly
3. New Drawing
4. New Bill of Materials
 Getting Started with ALIBRE
• Double Click the Alibre Design icon
• Ignore Pop-up tutorial icons.
• 2 windows = Home and New Part (do not cancel
Home Window)

New Part
Window
Home
Window
 Specification tree

Information
Model
ALIBRE
Windows Layout

Tools or functions
icon
 ALIBRE
Windows Layout (Cont.)
• Model : window to display the model or
part
• Specification tree : Store information how
the function that has been performed to
draw a model.
• Tool and Drawing Function : To draw 2D
curve and 3D model.
 Start Drawing using Alibre
Setting a Workspace.
• Setting the Measurement Unit
• File  Properties

• Setting Colour Sheme (option)

• Tools  Options  Colour Scheme tab Select
Very Light Background Scheme
 Drawing a Sketch
• Sketch is 2D profile / curves drawn in a
sketch plane.
• By default there are 3 Sketch planes
which can be selected to draw a sketch
– Default sketch planes : XY, YX, ZX
All are perpendicular to each other.
 Drawing a Sketch
• Choose a plane from design explorer window to draw sketch ex XY
plane

• Click Activate Sketch icon to enter to Sketcher workspace :

Sketch/Drawing workspace
window
Used to draw 2D
curve like Line, Arc,
Circle etc.

Useable Operation
on Sketcher
workspace

Grid : Square pattern

You can display a grid while you are in Sketch Mode. The grid
serves as a visual guide while drawing figures
 Setting a Grid
Procedure can be seen
from Help tool
 Sketch workspace
window
Sketcher Tool

Constraint tools

Curve drawing tools

 Drawing a Line
• Select Line Icon.
• Click Start point on Line
Drawing window.
• Click Next point.
• Click Line Icon again
to terminate the
operation
 Modify a Line
Click Select Icon to change
cursor to Selection mode
Select Icon
Select and Click a line to
modify.

Modification functions:
•To delete a line press Delete
on Keyboard

• To move a line click on the

line and drag to another
position.

•To Change a point click at a

 Drawing Snap to Grid
• Point of selection can
be located at
intersection of grid

Points of lines are snapped

to grid. Size of a figure will
follow the grid dimension
 Drawing a Circle
Type circle

• Select Circle Icon

• Click center point of
circle
• Click radius of Circle

• See help->index, Circle for more

option of drawing a circle
 Drawing a Arc
Three are 3 Methods to
draw arc:
• Center, Start, End
• Start, End, Radius
• Tangent, Start, End
Tangent, Start, End procedure:
•Select Tangent, Start, End Icon
•Select (a body of ) a reference curve
•Click Start point
•Click end point

Start point of arc will be tangent to reference curve

 Drawing a Arc
Practice

• Drawing elongated
hole using tangent arc

Left Arc Procedure

•Draw two parallel lines

•Select Tangent, Start, End Icon
•Select upper line (body),
•Click on the left point of lower line

Repeat to draw Right arc

 Drawing Predefined Profile
• Rectangle by to point
– Create rectangle parallel to
horizontal and vertical axis
Click to
• Rectangle by 3 points explore
the
– Create inclined rectangle icon
• Regular polygon

Draw any number of sides of polygon

 Draw a B-spline
• B-Spline or spline

Interpolation point
 Draw Spline by Interpolation point
• Select B-Spline by
Interpolation point
icon
• Click a point
other
• Continue to next point
• Double click or click
2nd
B-spline icon to
terminate 1st

End point, Terminate by double clic

 Practice 1-1
In this practice, you will draw the sketch of the model, as shown in Figure A using Line, Arc
and Circle tool. The sketch is shown in Figure B. You will not dimension the sketch. The
solid model and the dimensions are given only for your reference.

Figure A: Solid Model for Practice 1-1 Figure B: Sketch of Model

 Practice 1-2
In this practice, you will draw the sketch of the model, as shown in Figure A. The sketch is
shown in Figure B using Profile and Rectangle tool. You will not dimension the sketch.
The solid model and the dimensions are given only for your reference.

Figure A: Solid Model for Practice 1-2 Figure B: Sketch of the Model
 Class Assignment W1
Save as: c1w1.CATpart
Draw the sketch of the model shown in Figure A. The sketch to be drawn is shown in
Figure B. Complete the drawing with correct dimensions by adjusting grid spacing to 10
mm.

Figure A : Solid model for Class Figure B : Sketch of the model

Assignment W1

Submit your class assignment (filename indicate above) at

http://10.101.230.65:8080/cad.php
 Home Assignment W1
Save as: h1w1.CATpart

Complete the drawing in Figure B with correct dimensions using all the tools that
you have learned previously.

Figure A : Model for Figure B : Sketch for

Home Assignment 1 Home Assignment 1

To be submitted on Week 2 class at http://10.101.230.65:8080/cad.php