Computer Aided Design & The 118 Elements
by Florin FODOR
Working with CAD software to create new products is a huge improvement in the modern design process versus the old times when the work had to be done simply by hand. The posibilities to do mechanical design today are way much better. A new product can be created with any of these CAD platforms available... Continue Reading →
There are many objects which are commercially succesful if their design make them look attractive. Such example of products are those made by Apple. They use a lot of Freestyle design and one example here is the already well known Wireless Earbud. In this post I am showing you how this product can be designed... Continue Reading →
Generative Shape Design Workbench is an interactive environment and it works perfectly in combination with Part Design Workbench. Therefore to explore a bit more in details how does GDS works, let´s create a part which is only possible with GSD, such as a Bike Saddle. The most easier workbench to work with in any CAD... Continue Reading →
Until not long time ago, the most common ways of entertainment were reading books or listening to music. Then by mid of 20th century television started to gain in popularity and watching a movie at home has become very much a new common habit to enjoy our leisure time. However the first TV sets were... Continue Reading →
In a mechanical design of an assembly made up of various parts it is often the case to make sure the functional elements are perpendicular to a reference. In GD & T this is called Perpendicularity Tolerance. Like parallelism, the perpendicularity tolerance is also an Orientation tolerance from the sub-group of Direction tolerances. Therefore for... Continue Reading →
When you create a part as CAD data sure you can create a beautiful animation and virtually your part is perfect. But if you also intend to produce it, then without using GD & T for functional geometrical elements your CAD work remain only a virtual concept of something. It won´t work for real. Therefore... Continue Reading →
Working with CAD platforms is an engineering area in which the ideas for new concepts and imagination are unlimited. It is impossible to create fixed standards about how to design new products, which design features to be used and how to strictly organize the model tree structure. This is entirely up to the mechanical designer.... Continue Reading →
There are not many things which can be taken as defining elements of the human history and civilization, but there are few. Except the first 6 metals used by humans namely Copper (Cu), Gold (Au), Silver (Ag), Iron (Fe), Tin (Sn) and Lead (Pb), and water (H2O) which is the most abundant and consumed liquid... Continue Reading →
From the first objects ever created by man we always needed to put parts in a functional assembly. Nowadays, our technology is already advanced and the objects we create are almost entirely made of different parts put together in a stiff and functional product. There are multiple ways we can do this.In case of plastic... Continue Reading →
Mechanical design exist for very long time. People have always created objects in different ways. Since the invention of CAD platforms mechanical design of things didn´t change the way how people imagine the objects they wish to create but these CAD platforms are today very powerful and even if it doesn´t really matter which such... Continue Reading →
