Designing in 3D-CAD

Code

ME-CAD1

Version

1.0

Offered by

Mechanical Engineering

ECTS

Prerequisites

The requirements for participating in this course is basic knowledge in mechanical drawing techniques.

Main purpose

The main purpose of the course is to provide the student with the knowledge and methods within the fields of 3D CAD drawing.

Knowledge

The student will acquire knowledge and become confident with the use of the software Autodesk Inventor on a basic level sufficient enough to work with engineering design and documentation.

Specified in topics:

* Introduction to Inventor

* User interface and file structure

* Sketching, constraining and dimensioning

* Creating and editing sketched features

* Creating placed features

* Creating and editing drawing views

* Creating and documenting assemblies

* Advanced part modelling techniques

Skills

Following completion of the course the student has skills in:

* Using a popular 3D CAD program

* Part modeling

* Assembly modeling

* Applying standard components from a content library

* Creating drawing documentation of parts and assemblies in traditional 2D drawings

Competences

Upon completing the course, the student will have gained competences the use of a 3D CAD program and use suitable graphical drawing techniques when documenting a machine design. The student will gain knowledge in the use of Autodesk Inventor, sufficient to work with basic engineering design and documentation.

Topics

Teaching methods and study activities

Class room teaching of course topics combined with practice exercises.

The student is expected to make practice exercises and homework between lessons.

3 lessons per week for 14 weeks and the expected workload for students is 138 hours.

The student is required to install a free Inventor software on the student’s own Windows laptop.

The final course assignment is done in groups and covers all the course topics.

Study activity model
Category 1, Initiated by the lecturer with the participation of lecturer and students: 42 hours – 31%

Category 2: Initiated by lecturer with participation of students: 58 hours – 42 %

Category 3: Initiated by students with participation of students: 23 hours – 17 %

Category 4: Initiated by students with the participation of lecturer and students: 5 hours – 4%

Study activity model
Category 1, Initiated by the lecturer with the participation of lecturer and students: 42 hours – 30%

Category 2: Initiated by lecturer with participation of students: 76 hours – 55 %

Category 3: Initiated by students with participation of students: 21 hours – 15 %

Category 4: Initiated by students with the participation of lecturer and students: 0 hours – 0%

Resources

Literature and manuals will be handed out as PDF files.

Evaluation

Examination

Requirements for attending exam:
Test(s) during the course passed. Course assignment handed in before deadline

Type of examination:
Course assignments account for 60 % of final grade.
Tests account for 40 % of final grade
Censor: None

Allowed tools:
All

Re-examination:
Please note that the school can decide that the re-examination can be oral.