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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"computer aided drafting"”.
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Computer Aided Drafting Virtual Reality Interface
<p>Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) is pervasive in engineering fields today. It has become indispensable for planning, creating, visualizing, troubleshooting, collaborating, and communicating designs before they exist in physical form. From the beginning, CAD was created to be used by means of a …
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Towards a design process for micro-based computer-aided drafting systems
… years more than the wholesale introduction of computers into the design process that has been made possible by the development of affordable micro-based CAD. This thesis is a case study into how the current state of the art will affect the process of design. Based on this study, I hope to find …
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Computer Aided Drafting: perceived needs of Virginia's community college drafting instructors
Rapid changes in the drafting profession have left gaps in skills and resources which hinder the ability of community college drafting instructors to provide students with the advanced skills needed for employment. To minimize these problems and to facilitate the integration of CAD into drafting …
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The role of computer-aided drafting, analysis, and design software in structural engineering practice
… in engineering in the last fifty years, computer software has changed the way structural engineers conduct nearly every aspect of their daily business. Computer-aided drafting, analysis, and design software are invaluable tools for any structural engineering firm. Given the growth, …
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A study to determine the minimum AutoCad command set for computer-aided drafting in the Las Vegas area
The purpose of this study was to identify the computer aided drafting (CAD) commands most frequently used in the industrial application of the thirteenth release of the software product AutoCAD, vended by AutoDESK. Respondents were located within the Las Vegas drafting community and nearby areas. …
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The Effects of Cooperative and Individualistic Learning Structures on Achievement in a College-level Computer-aided Drafting Course
… students enrolled in two intact sections of a computer-aided drafting (CAD) course. Quasi-experimental and qualitative methods were employed in comparing student achievement resulting from out-of-class cooperative and individualistic learning structures. The research design was a …
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The Effects fo a Changing Technical Graphics Curriculum
… impact of advanced technology has increased computer usage at all levels of business and industry, as evidenced by the proliferation of computers on almost every desktop or workstation across the country. Within construction, engineering, and manufacturing related industries. Computer Aided …
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Numerical and experimental analysis of initial water impact of an air-dropped REMUS AUV
… applications. Finite-element method software and computer aided drafting tools were used to create a simplified model of REMUS without fins, propeller, or transducers.
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Számítógéppel segített rajzkészítés az oktatásban
… szakértői rendszerek megléte) függően vagy Computer Aided Drafting - számítógéppel segített rajzolást, vagy Computer Aided Design - számítógéppel segített gyártmánytervezést jelent. Mind a két esetben a munkadarab fizikai paramétereit kapjuk végeredményként, azt a formát, amit le kell …
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Particulate : an education and research workshop for off-site manufacturing
… facility, focused on the development and use of Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) techniques, to design, manufacture and assemble buildings. Post-industrial revolution, construction, manufacturing and architectural professions have been developing CAD/CAM …
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Analyzing and creating forms : rapid generation of graphic statics solutions through RhinoScript
… axial forces within members. Accordingly, any computer-aided drafting (CAD) program may be utilized in the pursuit of a graphic statics solution. This thesis presents a methodology which employs Rhinoceros 4.0 (Rhino) in its capacity as such a program. Using RhinoScript, which provides access …
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Propeller design and analysis for a small, autonomous UAV
… selection to final part generation in the computer-aided drafting program SolidWorks is described. QMIL and QPROP were the programs of choice for producing a propeller design focused on yielding minimum induced losses for optimal aerodynamic efficiency given a conservative aerodynamic …
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Numerical and experimental analysis of initial water impact of an air-dropped REMUS AUV
… applications. Finite-element method software and computer aided drafting tools were used to create a simplified model of REMUS without fins, propeller, or transducers. This axisyrnmetric REMUS model was cut by a flat free surface at various pitch angles and submergence values, and a panel mesh of …
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CAD-GIS Interoperability Issues for Facilities Management: Enabling Inter-Disciplinary Workflows
… enterprise geographic data holdings in various Computer-Aided Drafting (CAD), geographic Information Systems (GIS), imaging, and tabular database formats. Integrating these various data would provide significant benefits to the University by enabling or enhancing a number of applications such as …
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Predictive Simulations of the Impedance-Matched Multi-Axis Test Method Using Data-Driven Modeling
… they were fabricated before mainstream use of computer aided drafting and finite element analysis but are still in service. An alternative to numerical modeling is data-driven modeling, which does not require knowledge of a system's dynamic characteris- tics. The Continuous Residue …
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Design of experimental systems for a liquid-fueled molten salt reactor
… experiments. The designs were modeled in computer aided drafting programs and provided with information about their material requirements.
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An automated dynamic site layout planning system : a case study of Egypt
… the integrating of the automated system with the Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) and Building Information Modelling (BIM) to facilitate the data exchange and provide the project stakeholder with different scenarios of site layout.
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Advances in Complex Electromagnetic Media
… arbitrary gradient index structure in a standard computer aided drafting format. I fabricated three lenses-two of which are described in this thesis-and took all of the data shown in the thesis.</p><p>The most well known example of a transformation optical device is the invisibility cloak. Despite …