Computer Aided Design CAD

This course in Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) is intended for students in the second year of the Technological Science course in Mechanical Engineering (Semester 4). It will enable students to acquire the principles of presentation of parts in industrial drawing using software (Solidworks, Autocad, Catia, Inventor, etc...). The objective is to read technical drawings of assemblies and details and to make the student capable of adequately using the two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) functionalities of a CAD software on simple parts of general mechanics. It has been compiled from several sources: books, pre-existing handouts and other contributions freely available on the Internet which are mentioned in the bibliography at the end of this handout. It therefore has no claim to originality. I would like to point out that the examples (in the form of mechanical parts) have been made on CATIA V5R20 software, these parts have been chosen from industrial design books and their solutions (source files in Catpart, Catdrwing and Catproduct formats).