QUESTION BANK OF COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN

UNIT-1

1. What are the benefits of computer aided design?

2. Discuss the major elements of computer aided design.
3. Explain graphics software.
4. What do you mean by output primitives?
5. Describe windowing and clipping technique used in computer graphics.
6. Make a table of important design phase.
7. What are Cad tools to support various design phases?
7. Differentiate between Random and Raster Scan display.
8. What do you mean by graphics standard? Enlist graphics standard and explain any one in brief.
9. What is difference between CAD and CAM irrespective of manufacturing consideration.
10. Explain the application of computer aided design.

UNIT-2

1. Explain the working principle of LCD.

2. Describe the Translation, Rotation and Scaling.
3. Describe the shearing and reflection.
4. Rotate a triangle A (0, 0), B (1, 1), C (5, 2) by 450 about the origin.
5. Explain the working of CRT with neat sketch and how pixels are generated. Differentiate CRT with flat panel display.
6. What is geometric transformation?
7. Find the reflection matrix when the axis of reflection is given by y = 5x. Also determine the reflection of point (7,3) about the axis.
8. Explain the LED and plasma display.
9. Find the coordinate of triangle (1,2),(1,4) and (3,3) after scaling 3 units in x direction and 2 unit in y direction.
10. Find the coordinate of point (3,5) when rotated about 45 degree with respect to origin.
 UNIT-3

1. Explain the advantage of using parametric curve over non parametric curve.
2. Generate a Bezier curve passing through control points (2, 0), (5, 4), (6, 3) and (4, 3).
3. Discuss Bresenham’s line algorithm. And also discuss DDA algorithm.
4. Discuss Mid point circle algorithm. Create a circle whose centre is at (5, 10) and radius is 10 units by using mid point circle algorithm.
5. What do you mean by the order of continuity?
6. Briefly discuss the generation of 2-D curves. What are the difficulties of using non parametric curve. What advantages does a parametric curve offer for
representing curve.
7. Briefly discuss the Bezier curve, its blending function and properties.
8. Briefly discuss the B-spline curve, its blending function and properties
9. What do you understand by interpolation approximation?
10. Determine and plot the blending functions for Hermite spline. What are the limitations of Hermite curve? How they are removed?

UNIT-4

1.What do you understand by geometric model?

2. Explain boundary representation technique.
3. What do you mean by quadric surfaces?
4. What do you mean by Superquadric surfaces?
5. Write down the two applications Pro/E.
6. Distinguish between solid and surface modeling.
7. Explain various parametric continuity conditions.
8. Explain RGB and CMYK colour models.
9. Explain constructive solid geometry. What is the role of Primitives and Boolean operation in CSG?
10. What do you understand by Blobby objects, explain with figure?
 UNIT-4

1. Define element stiffness matrix.

2. What error may be in FEM solution?
3. What is the difference between local coordinates and natural coordinates?
4. Explain the following : i. Solidworks ii. Catia iii. AutoCAD
5. Describe the steps involve in analysis of physical system by FEM.
6. Design element and global stiffness matrix for a spring system by FEA.
7. A tapering round bar is fixed at one end and a tensile load of 1000 N is applied at the other end as given in the figure. Take modulus of elasticity =3x105 MPa.
Find global stiffness matrix and displacement considering it as 4 elementss
8. Design element and global stiffness matrix for a bar system by FEA.
9. A simple plane truss is made of two identical bars (with E, A and L) and loaded as shown in figure .Find: displacement at node 2 and stresses in each bar.

10. For the beam shown in figure find the deflection and rotation at node 2 and node 3 and reactions.
Load = 50 kN, spring constant k= 200kN/m, length of each section L= 3 m, E =210 GPa, I = 2x10-4m4