Computer Aided Design is the use of computers (or workstations) to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design. This software is used to increase the productivity of the designer, improve the quality of design, improve communications through documentation, and to create a database for manufacturing. Designs made through CAD software are helpful in protecting products and inventions when used in patent applications. CAD output is often in the form of electronic files for print, machining, or other manufacturing operations. The terms computer-aided drafting (CAD) and computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) are also used.
Its use in designing electronic systems is known as electronic design automation (EDA). In mechanical design it is known as mechanical design automation (MDA), which includes the process of creating a technical drawing with the use of computer software.
CAD software for mechanical design uses either vector-based graphics to depict the objects of traditional drafting, or may also produce raster graphics showing the overall appearance of designed objects. However, it involves more than just shapes. As in the manual drafting of technical and engineering drawings, the output of CAD must convey information, such as materials, processes, dimensions, and tolerances, according to application-specific conventions.
CAD may be used to design curves and figures in two-dimensional (2D) space; or curves, surfaces, and solids in three-dimensional (3D) space.
CAD is an important industrial art extensively used in many applications, including automotive, shipbuilding, and aerospace industries, industrial and architectural design (building information modeling), prosthetics, and many more. CAD is also widely used to produce computer animation for special effects in movies, advertising and technical manuals, often called DCC digital content creation. The modern ubiquity and power of computers means that even perfume bottles and shampoo dispensers are designed using techniques unheard of by engineers of the 1960s. Because of its enormous economic importance, CAD has been a major driving force for research in computational geometry, computer graphics (both hardware and software), and discrete differential geometry. The design of geometric models for object shapes, in particular, is occasionally called computer-aided geometric design (CAGD).
Plan, Elevation
Dimensions Marking
Create 3D view of plan
Sections for Architectural on 2D
Light Setting
Anipath & Rendering
Basic Tools
Object Editing
Lighting and 3D Material Change
Push / Pull Modification
Camera use Interior & Exterior
Plan Drawing
Interior & Exterior
Match Photo Modeling
Elevation Work
Rendering - Vray
Sketcher Basics
2D & 3D Sketches
Part Modeling
Application of Solid Modeling
Advanced Modeling
Assembly, Drawings
Sectional and Detail Views, BOM
Creating Flanges, Hem, Sketched Bend
Corners-closed, Break Trim
Lofted Bends, Rip, Gussets, Vent
Fill Pattern, Feature Library
Flatten, Jog,Forming Tools
Simple Hole, Extruded Cut
Sheet Metal Drawings
Surface Modeling
Types of Tools, Extruded, Revolved
Swept, Lofted, Boundary, Filled
Freeform, Planar, Offset, Ruled
Fillet - Surfaces
Surface Flatten
Surface Editing Tools
Parametric Concepts
Sketcher
Datum Features
Extrude & Revolves, Swept Blend
Toroidal, Spinal Blend
Holes, Shells, Draft & Patterns
Rounds, Chamfers, Assembling
Exploding Views, Drawings
Sectional Views Detailing, BOM
Sheet Metal Design
Planer Walls, Flange Walls
Flat Walls, Extrude
Boundary Blend, Rip, Corner Relief
Solid to Sheet Metal, Conversion
Unbend, Bend Back, Cuts, Holes
Notches and Punches
Sheet Metal Forms, Flat Pattern
Sheet Metal Drawings with Flat Tates
Surface Model Tools
Extrude, Revolved, Sweep
Helical Sweep, Swept Blend
Shapes Blend
Shapes Rotational Blend
Boundary Blend, Filled
Mirrored
Extended
Offset - Surfaces
Sketcher, Sketch Based Features
Dress-up Features
Reference Element Toolbar
Transformation Toolbar
Multi Body Concept
Boolean Operations, Apply Material
Measure Toolbar, Advanced Features
Assembly Features, Drawings
Sectional Views Detailing, BOM
Sheet Metal Design and Parameters
Walls, Edges, Extrusion
Bends Types, Swept Wall Types
Hem, Tear Drop
Unfold, Cut Outs, Splits
Stampings, Bridge, Louver
Rib Patterns
Corner Reliefs, Chamfers
Replication Tools
Surface Model, Split
Thick, Close, Saw
Planar Patch, Extruded, Revolved
Offset - Surface
Styling Extrapolate
Free Style Blend
ACA Fillet, Net, Styling Sweep
Match and Curved - Surfaces