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This course teaches computer aided design (CAD) using Creo software. Students will learn to create 2D and 3D models, assemblies, engineering drawings and animations. They will also learn design principles like human centered design, rapid prototyping, and design for manufacturing. The course consists of lectures, labs, and a semester-long design project where students design a product and create CAD models, drawings, and a 3D printed prototype.

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ME170 Syllabus PDF

This course teaches computer aided design (CAD) using Creo software. Students will learn to create 2D and 3D models, assemblies, engineering drawings and animations. They will also learn design principles like human centered design, rapid prototyping, and design for manufacturing. The course consists of lectures, labs, and a semester-long design project where students design a product and create CAD models, drawings, and a 3D printed prototype.

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ME170 Computer Aided Design

Course Outline/Syllabus

1. Course Description
This course teaches the primary methods and principles used by engineers today to define and describe
the geometry and topology of engineered components. For centuries the principal method of
communication between engineers and manufacturing has been the engineering drawing. Over recent
times computer aided design/drafting (CAD) has evolved from a tool to aid in the preparation of
drawings (2D CAD), to a method of fully defining and specifying a component, or assembly of
components, in a mathematically robust geometric fully associative database (3D CAD or solid
modeling). In this course, the students learn how to create these fully defined engineering models and
how to correctly present them in standard 2D blueprint form (aka Engineering Drawings), 3D
wireframe, 3D cosmetically shaded presentations and animations, meshed topologies for engineering
analysis, and toolpath generation for component manufacture. PTC’s Creo 3D CAD software is used
throughout the course.

2. Course Specifics
Prerequisites: None
Lecture: Two 1 hr lectures per week.
Lab Section: One 2 hr lab section per week
Computer Lab: Engineering Workstation labs
Computer Software: Creo 5.0
Course Book: "Creo Parametric 5.0 Basic Design" by Steven G. Smith, publisher:
CADquest

3. Course Topics

1. Design Process: Human Centered Design (HCD), 2D/3D freehand concept sketching,
Product Design Specification (PDS), Concept Selection (Pugh), Rapid Prototyping/3D
printing, Design for Manufacture (aPriori cost analysis)

2. CAD: 2D CAD, 3D wireframe, and 3D solids and surfaces

3. Basic Part modeling: setting up datum planes, defining the coordinate systems, feature
selection, parent/child relationships, dimension driven 3D sketching (include. protrusions,
revolving. extruding etc), visualization (hidden lines, shaded, and perspective views)

4. Complex Parts and Surfaces: Curved surfaces and blends, shelled/molded parts, adding ribs
and bosses, creating parametric designs (include. variables, equations, forms and tables)

5. Detailing and Blueprint Creation: Orthographic projections, line and text forms, coordinate
dimensioning and tolerancing principles and standards, geometric dimensioning and
tolerancing (GD&T), section and part-section views, compliance with ANSI and ISO
standards.
6. Assembly: Assembly constraints (mating planes and coordinates, aligning, orienting etc),
exploded views, creating a Bill of Materials (BOM), interference and clearance checking,
orthographic assembly drawings.

7. Engineering Property and File Creation: mass/volume properties, plot/print files, web file
creation (jpg, VRML), data exchange (IGES, STL, DXF), Mesh files (FEA output), and
Cutter Location Files (toolpath generation).

8. Introduction to Kinematics: Creo Mechanism Analysis (angular position and velocity


plots); Creating Animations; simulating multi-axis joints, springs, servo and force motors.

9. Design Project: Design a small product or sub-assembly. Create part models for each part.
Assembly models with exploded views, Bill of Materials (BOM), a full set of blueprints /
engineering drawings and a physical prototype of one key part (on 3D printers).

Develop and give a computer presentation, and write a design project report.

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