The value of a computer-aided design (CAD) programs depends
References: ( Narayan K. Lalit (2008). “Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing”. New Delhi: Prentice Hall of India. pp.3 – 4. ) Madsen, David A
CAD drawings a simple task. Special features like 3-D capability, cutaways and zoom options enhance CAD drawings.…
In order to use CAD effectively as a design tool, the designer must have the skills necessary to create, edit, and manipulate a 3D model of a part in order to create a realistic representation of an imagined object. In this activity you will build on the CAD skills that you learned in Activity 5.2b Introduction to CAD Skills. You will learn about and use additional tools and features available in most CAD programs and apply your new CAD skills to the creation of more complex parts that will be used in later activities (as components in the assembly of parts) to create complete products (including a complete Automoblox vehicle and a Button Maker machine).…
A CAD model can quickly display an engineer’s ideas in a realistic way. And those models can be used to generate technical drawings that can communicate the information necessary to make the idea a reality. In order to generate a 3D model, designs must start with sketches that are generated within the CAD program. These computer generated sketches will appear resemble hand drawn sketches in geometry (the combination of points, lines, and shapes), but have big advantages over hand drawn sketches. One important difference between a freehand sketch and a CAD sketch is accuracy. The lines of a CAD sketch can be drawn perfectly straight, with start and end points that occur in exact locations in space. By using numeric (dimensional) constraints a line may also be given precise length, placed a specific distance from another sketch feature, or constrained to be oriented at a specific angle from another straight line. By applying geometric constraints a line can be made perfectly horizontal or vertical. If more than one line is being sketched, they can be made perfectly parallel or perpendicular, collinear, or equal in length. Lines can be constrained to be tangent to circles or arcs, and two circles can be constrained to be concentric. In order to precisely model a part, the designer must be able to use dimensional and geometric constraints within the CAD program.…
AutoCAD, developed by Autodesk Inc., is the most popular PC – CAD system available in the market. This design package is a general purpose computer aided design and drafting application for your computer. The speed and ease with which a drawing can be prepared and modified using a computer offer a phenomenal advantage over hand preparation.…
In today’s world technology is playing a major part of people’s lives, either as a socialization tool or as a working tool. For example, some people get seriously stressed when they cannot access the Internet and a majority of people confess that technology has had a great impact in their lives. Technology has had both positive and negative impacts on graphic design. On one hand, it made it easier to do the work due to technological innovations such as printers, scanners, the Internet and designing program but on the other hand it has killed creativity with applications such as Photoshop, which are now replacing the old tradition of originality, skills and ideas. Too much dependence on technology has made many graphic designers slaves to technology and many are now not concerned about originality, good judgment and hands-on experience. Some of the graphic designers who support technology argue on the contrary that advanced design software enables them to save time by allowing them skip some of the steps involved in manual design process such as old copy, stripping and past. They also believe that technology has brought about a shift in the creative process, as graphic designers now create designs using technology, compared to designers in the earlier days that carried out the same creation but using traditional methods.…
Contemporary designers are creators of objects, buildings or surroundings that rely on characteristics such as lines, smooth and sleek surfaces, very little intricate details. There designs are spacious and/or comfortable, with the asset of clutter. However they must study design history because to open their mind to the past they will learn new ideas and ideologies, “To know nothing of what happened before you were born is to remain forever a child,” Marcus Tullius Cicero, a famous philosopher (106-43 BC)1. The 3 main reasons why learning design history is useful are firstly because it will help advance and learn from success and failures. Secondly to maintain sustainability within our world for future generations and thirdly to learn more about other past cultures.…
Computer-Aided-Design The use of computer-based tools that assist engineers, architects, and other design professionals in their design work.…
Although computers do not have a long history of relationship with humans, but now life without computer seems impossible. As the computer has touched almost every aspect of human life, definitely art has no exception and graphic designing has given a new shape to the field of art, in fact, a new life. Designers are considered the trendsetters in today's fashions. They create visual solutions and use a variety of print, electronic and film media and technologies to execute a design that meets clients' needs.…
Design is a person’s creative way of developing an idea or product. “Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design (Herbert Simon, The Sciences of the Artifact 1989)…
The history of design can teach contemporary designers about the achievements and mistakes of the past. Such examinations of history show that lessons can be learned from the varying disciplines focused on the forms and functions of designs; where different designers take different standings on what is the appropriate form for the desired function. Burkey Belser, an information designer, discusses contemporary design, and that “The mirror has shattered and fragments of design movements are now strong, moving in parallel streams”. (Belser 2002) This statement shows the drift caused in design through history and the increase in individualism that now exists. Examples can be seen in all aspects of design, where designers take different views, and their designs may hold too much focus on their form or function, which weakens their standing in society as a design, while others may have the right balance where the purpose is for the function and the form is made to suit the idea. Good design results when form and function are in balance.…
This software can help an engineer create the invention and run it under tests on the computer. To first process the data, an engineer would use analytical software in order find trends in the results. Computer Aided Design software, or CAD software, are programs used universally by engineers to implement specific materials and aesthetics into a creation. Finally, simulation software will allow the engineer to observe how the product will behave in different environments. This is the last step of the scientific method, determining whether or not an engineer must revise the product or continue in development.…
* Computer-based drafting systems produce the information needed for architects, mechanical designers, and drafts people.…
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The designer produces a broad variety of objects (e.g. Cars, The interior of spacecraft, torches, chairs and tables. This designer has design projects such as designing the interior of a spacecraft…
GRA 202 - LAYOUT & TYPOGRAPHY MIDTERM STUDY NOTES LECTURE 1: THE GRAPHIC DESIGN PROCESS THE DESIGN PROCESS 1. Planning > 2. Design > 3. Development > 4. Feedback * There is no one way* - as such design usually solved a problem (ie. save money, environment, persuade) THE GCM GDP - what do you do when you are working? - what steps do you take? - is there room for improvement? - were you missing steps? OTHER GDP 1. Meet > Research > Conceptualize > Layout & Design > Present & Revise > Finalize 2. Breifing > Design > Artwork > Production 3. Define prob/goal > research > inspiration > sketch > digital implementation > feedback > more digi > colour & typefaces > final rev > delivery DESIGN BREIF Purpose: get everyone on the client side on same page & give the designer a point of reference Contains: corporate profile, backgrpound w/ position situation & communication, the message, target market, objectives, budjet, schedule MIND MAPS Components Include: floating topic, central topic, main topics Subtopics DESIGN AND CROWDSOURCING - the internet is changing the way we participate in design - crowd sourcing is when you ask a question of the crowd - Process: client posts job > designers respond w/ solution > client picks winning design - sometimes refered to as spec work - benefits client bc get to see end result for free > possible steal ideas and not pay designer for work LECTURE 2: ELEMENTS OF GRAPHIC DESIGN - POINT, LINE & PLANE ELEMENTS OF GRAPHIC DESIGN Line, Colour, Texture, Size, Shape, Value Space * Graphic Designers use type to communicate a message or line to create movement, or colour to create mood etc.* THE CHALLENGE - the way we identify & describe elements is varied - there is no one process for graphic design & there is no set of "stuff" or "rules" either - "Stuff = elements of design" & "Rules = principles of design" DEFINITION - Elements of graphic design: the components or content of the design, they can be tangible or work to…