ANALYSIS AND REFLECTION ON CAD
- 1. ANALYSIS AND REFLECTION ON CAD/CAM. Computer aided design and computer aided manufacturing i.e. the use of the computer software for the designing of materials and then produce them out with the help of a CNC machine depending on the type of environment the material will be exposed to. Basically before a material can finally be produced the purpose of the material and the environment which is going to be exposed to are very important. So the machine can be produced the material out in the form of aluminium, wood, ABS plastics and so on. Most of the car parts can also be designed with the help of the computer aided design and then test the car part with a simulation and this would tell how the car body part perform in terms of aerodynamic and also if the air travelling around the part would form a lot of swirling wind or vortex around its boundary layer or is just going to produce a streamlined air. The area I find most interesting is the designing part because this will make me thinks of the appropriate materials to be used for the design, several methods that could be applied in designing, then also will have to think about the production by giving the material the right size and not to waste a lot of the materials. Among all this, the challenging part is having the right tool drive for the production as different teeth shape might be required for the production in the CNC Machine and the cost of each drive tool. Computer aided design has giving me the knowledge that virtually everything can be designed first before they are finally been produced. CAD/CAM has helped lots of manufacturing industries for example, car manufacturing, aircraft manufacturing industries and lots more to know how materials would react or behave before proceeding into the final production of such materials which has made this an added advantage for them to use the computer aided machine and computer aided design and it will save them more money.