MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DRAWING & INTRODUCTION TO MCAD

General Info

• Course Title: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DRAWING & INTRODUCTION TO MCAD
• Course Code: NAOΜE1104
• Semester: 1st
• Course Type: G.B.¹
• Weekly Teaching Hours: 2 (Lectures), 2 (Laboratory)
• Credits (ECTS): 4
• Offered to ERASMUS+ students: Yes
• Course Website: https://eclass.uniwa.gr/courses/NAFP162/
• Professors: Sotiria Dimitrellou, I. Papantoniou

Course Content / Syllabus

Lectures: Introduction to the Mechanical Drawing. Categories of Mechanical Drawing. International standards and design regulations. Paper size. Drawing tools. Scales. Line types and sketching. Title blocks. Projection theory. Orthographic projections. Arrangement of drawing views. Auxiliary views. Isometric drawing. Axonometric drawing. Sectional views. Types of section. Revolves and removed sections. Partial sections. Dimensioning. Rules. Symbols. Construction drawings. Threaded fasteners. Threaded holes. Threaded assemblies. Standards. Bolts. Nuts. Dimensional tolerances. Geometric tolerances. Feature control frame. Tolerance grades. Limits and fits. Hole and shaft categories. Surface roughness. Design of machine elements: wedges, keys, washers, seals, pin fasteners, welds, springs, spur gears, bearings. Introduction to assembly drawings. Bill of materials. Disassembly of mechanical products. Introduction to Mechanical Computer Aided Design (MCAD). 3D modeling and design. Representation of geometric entities. Edge models. Surface models. Solid models. CAD / CAM software. Modeling. Visualization. Simulation. Optimization.
Laboratory: Laboratory exercises on rough drawings of mechanical parts, detailed drawings on sheet (orthographic projections, isometric drawing, sectional drawing, assembly drawing), two-dimensional and three-dimensional computer-aided design using software such as Autodesk AutoCAD & Autodesk Inventor.

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