CAD Practicals – Making machine drawings for a mechanical part (Engineers)

Topics Covered

1. Align Command
2. Working with Orthographic projections to make plans elevations and sections
3. Composing objects at the right scale on a sheet
4. Printing with Autocad

Homework for CAD PRACTICALS – Machine drawing with AutoCAD

You are expected to draw out both the drawings on two A4 size sheets in the above exercise on AutoCAD.

The motive of the submission is to understand how to make a professional autocad drawing. You are to integrate all the above topics learnt so far into making your drawing.

1. Deadline for submission: Before 10th Sep 2015. 7:00 pm
2. Total Marks towards final = 4 Marks
3. Rubrick:
   1. For every following mistake made 0.125 marks shall be deducted.
      • Inaccurate lines / dimensions
      • Incomplete text / dimensions
   2.  For every following mistake made 0.25 marks shall be deducted
      • No template
      • Drawings not placed on viewports
      • Complete lack of Dimension styles / text-styles
      • Complete lack of Linetypes
      • Complete lack of Layers

Submission procedure (Important!!)

Please follow the following steps.

1. Save your CAD file as “Your first name-week number”.dwg.. example mine would be Varun-3.dwg
2. Login to Dropbox (sketchpad.1963@gmail.com – modelspace)
3. Upload your drawing inside your folder – Dropbox>Submissions>Axx00x0x>First Partial> upload your .dwg file
4. Print the two drawings from your layouts and submit them at the beginning of the class.