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Introduction to CAD and Product life cycle


What are the phases through which a product typically goes over its life cycle?
State role of CAD, CAM and CAE in the life cycle of a product.
What are different coordinate systems used in geometric modeling?
What is feature based geometric modeling? Explain with a diagram.
What are different geometric modeling approaches?

2D and 3D Transformations
What are different types of transformations?
What is the need of homogeneous coordinate system?
State general transformation matrix for 3D transformations in homogeneous
coordinate system and explain the role of elements in it.
State 2D transformation matrix for rotation about Z axis by and angle of
30degrees in clockwise direction.
State resultant 2D transformation matrix when a position vector is elongated 2
times along X and Y direction and then mirrored about Y axis.

Geometric Modeling of Curves


What are the modeling requirements while using curves?
How curves are classified? Explain any two types of curves.
What is the difference between non-parametric and parametric curve?
What are limitations of non-parametric curves?
What benefits parametric curves offer?
Explain how successive points on the circle can be recursively found in terms of
previous point from a given point (x1,y1) = (rcosθ, rsinθ)
Find out parametric equation of a helix with radius r and height h.

Cubic Spline or Hermite Curve


What are the characteristics of synthetic curves?
Explain C0, C1 and C2 continuity of curves. Draw a diagram showing C2
continuity of 2 curves joining at a point.
What are the benefits of Cubic Spline curve?
What are limitations of Cubic Spline Curve?
How a Cubic Spline curve is mathematically represented in parametric form?
State the conditions by which the basis functions of a Cubic Spline can be
determined.
Explain with the help of a diagram effect of change of direction and magnitude of
tangent vectors on the shape of Hermite curve.
Explain chord length approximated parametric Cubic Spline curve.
What is normalized parametric Cubic Spline?
What are different alternative end conditions that can be applied to Cubic Spline
curve?

Bezier curve
State any 4 important properties of Bezier curve
What benefits a Bezier curve provides while modeling the shape?
What are the limitations of the Bezier curve?
Write the parametric equation of Bezier curve that has 5 control points.
Write basis functions of above Bezier curve.
How a point on the Bezier curve at certain value of parameter u can be obtained
without evaluating its parametric equation?

B-Spline curves
What is the parametric equation of B-Spline curve that has degree three and has
6 control points in total?
Find the number of knots and knot vector for above curve.
Explain how B-spline curve can achieve local control on the shape of the curve.
What are different types of B-Spline curve?
Explain the basis functions of Open Uniform B-Spline Curves.
What are uniform periodic B-spline curves?
How are closed B-spline curves achieved?
Write the properties of B-spline curves.

Surfaces
Derive the parametric equation of a toroidal surface.
Write a short note of sweep surfaces and its types.
What is linear Coon’s patch? Derive the equation of a linear Coon’s patch.
Derive the parametric equation of bi-linear surface patch.
Write a short note on piecewise representation of surfaces and their patching.
Explain Bi-cubic Coon’s patch and write its equation in matrix form. Explain
about twist vectors.
Explain about Bezier Surfaces and write its parametric equation.
What are the characteristics of Bezier surfaces?
Write a short note on B-spline surfaces.

Solid modelling
What is 3D modelling? What are its types and applications?
Explain Wireframe modelling. State its advantages and disadvantages.
Explain Surface modelling. State its advantages and disadvantages.
Explain Wireframe modelling. State its features, advantages and disadvantages.
Write a short note on half spaces.
What are the properties of a solid? Explain about two manifold and non-manifold
solid.
State properties of a valid solid with approaches to represent the solid. Prove
that a solid
cube with a through hole obeys Euler’s formula of valid solid.
Prove that a solid cylinder is a valid solid by using Euler’s formula of valid solid.
Write a short note on B-rep solid modelling technique.
Wite a short note on CSG solid modelling technique.

Data exchange, Assembly modelling and NURBS


Explain need for data exchange with example. Which is the CAD data to be
exchanged?
Explain the different approaches for CAD data exchange.
Explain about assembly modelling and its types of approaches.
Write a short note on mating methods and conditions during assembly modelling.
Write a short note on NURBS. Explain about its basis functions and its properties.
Show how NURBS is a general representation of a B-Spline curve.
Computer Aided Analysis
Derive element stiffness matrix for the given two springs system, where forces
are acting on all 3 nodes.
Derive element stiffness matrix for the given two springs system where forces
are acting on second and third node with first node fixed.
Write a short note on FEM. Explain about discretization in FEM. What are the
advantages and applications of FEM?
Explain the general procedure of FEA.
What is a stiffness matrix? Derive the stiffness matrix for a linear spring as a
finite element.
Write a short note on dynamic and non-linear analysis.
Write a short note on Isoparametric FEM.

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