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Question Bank - CAD/CAM

This document contains a question bank covering 4 units on CAD/CAM topics: Unit 1 covers CAD fundamentals like definitions, applications, advantages of CAD, the design process, and how CAD can help manufacturing. Unit 2 discusses 2D and 3D transformations, geometric modeling importance. Unit 3 compares wireframe, solid, and surface modeling, and discusses curve representations. Unit 4 addresses numerical control elements, NC modes, differences between NC, CNC and DNC, and motion control statements.
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Question Bank - CAD/CAM

This document contains a question bank covering 4 units on CAD/CAM topics: Unit 1 covers CAD fundamentals like definitions, applications, advantages of CAD, the design process, and how CAD can help manufacturing. Unit 2 discusses 2D and 3D transformations, geometric modeling importance. Unit 3 compares wireframe, solid, and surface modeling, and discusses curve representations. Unit 4 addresses numerical control elements, NC modes, differences between NC, CNC and DNC, and motion control statements.
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Question Bank - CAD/CAM

UNIT-1

1. Define CAD ? explain the applications of computers in design?


2. List the advantages of computer aided design?
3. With suitable example, explain the various steps involved in design process?
4. Explain with the help of a block diagram the hardware configuration of a typical stand alone CAD
system.
5. IN what ways CAD can help manufacturing activity? Discuss?
6. Explain with the help of a neat sketch, how an image is generated on a computer terminal.
UNIT-2
1. Explain how 2D& D transformations are done on a graphics element? What is the need of
Homogeneous representation in concatenation of transformations explain with example.
2. Write on the importance of studying geometric modelling in CAD?
3. What are entities? Explain the methods of defining lines, points, arcs and circles in wire frame
modelling?
4. What Is meant by a concentration matrix? Demonstrate how translation and rotation
operations can be done simultaneously on a graphic element using concatenation matrix?
UNIT-3
1. Briefly explain wire frame, solid and surface modelling, give its advantages and dis-advantages?
2. Discuss the curve representation? Why parametric curve representation more used in CAD than
non-parametric representation? Explain with example.
3. Explain briefly Bezier, Hermetic cubic spline curves
4.
a. Explain various structures used in data base organisation?
b. Distinguish between C-rep and B-rep models
Unit-4

1. (a) Describe the numerical control elements with neat block diagram.
(b) Write any two NC modes and describe them.

2.
a. Distinguish between NC, CNC, DNC
b. Discuss the various motion statements used in the APT language.
3.
a. Discuss the three types of NC motion control statements
b. Discuss the salient features of machining statements
4.
a. Explain the role of a part programmer in manual part programming method and
computer assisted part programming method
b. State the advantages and disadvantages of NC

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