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Erp A Manufacturing Perspective Chapter-4

Computer Aided Design (CAD) systems allow designers to create and modify product designs digitally. CAD provides benefits like viewing designs from different angles in 3D, making proportional changes easily, and storing existing design characteristics for reference and reuse. Some advanced CAD systems can automatically evaluate how design changes impact key specifications like strength, heat resistance, or aerodynamics, reducing development time and improving quality by enabling more design options to be evaluated quickly. Overall, CAD systems' benefits include reduced development time and costs as well as improved product quality.

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Erp A Manufacturing Perspective Chapter-4

Computer Aided Design (CAD) systems allow designers to create and modify product designs digitally. CAD provides benefits like viewing designs from different angles in 3D, making proportional changes easily, and storing existing design characteristics for reference and reuse. Some advanced CAD systems can automatically evaluate how design changes impact key specifications like strength, heat resistance, or aerodynamics, reducing development time and improving quality by enabling more design options to be evaluated quickly. Overall, CAD systems' benefits include reduced development time and costs as well as improved product quality.

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ERP A MANUFACTURING PERSPECTIVE

Chapter-4

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN / COMPUTER


AIDED MANUFACTURING (CAD / CAM)
1. Computer Aided Design (CAD) is a popular tool for
product design and is major focus area for
manufacturing sector.
2. CAD systems are computer programs or integrated
packages for work station hardware and software that
allow the user to draw and easily modify product
designs on a computer screen.
3. Eg-aerospace & automotive are largest user of
CAD/CAM.
Advanced CAD systems provide designers with at least
three major benefits: -

A. GRAPHICS CAPABILITIES:
CAD systems allow the designer to view a
product from different perspectives, including
three-dimensional rotations, and various crosssections.
The designer can also make proportional
changes in scale, or change the angle of an arc
with the click of a computer mouse rather than
having to redraw the entire product.

B. DESIGN, STORAGE & RETRIEVAL:


1. Some CAD systems can store the design characteristics of
existing products & components.
2. Example, if a company needs a gear for a new product, the
designer can enter relevant information about the gear,
such as it diameter, tooth pattern and required hardness,
into the CAD system .
3. The CAD system determines whether the company is
already using an identical or sufficiently similar gear, in
which case a new one in unnecessary, if not, then use the
design of this similar gear as a starting point for the new
gear.
4. This capability not only promotes the use of common
components but also reduces design time.

C. AUTOMATIC EVALUATION OF SPECIFICATIONS:


1. One of the most time-consuming aspects of design for
highly technical products is calculating whether or not product
specifications, such as strength, heat resistance or
aerodynamic drag, are satisfied.
2. These calculations can be programmed into some CAD
systems so that whenever the designer changes the design
(by altering the shape or material to be used) these
performance characteristics are recalculated automatically and
compared to the product requirements.
3. This is sometimes called Computer-Aided-Engineering
(CAE)

The overall benefits of CAD systems can be substantial. The


features described above reduce the development time and
cost, and they improve product quality because more
design options can be evaluated in greater detail more quickly

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