CAD/CAM booklet Flashcards
1
Q
CAD
A
Computer Aided Design
2
Q
CAM
A
Computer Aided Manufacture
3
Q
Hatching or rendering
A
Different finishes or materials can be displayed
4
Q
Zoom
A
Enhance parts of a drawing to make it bigger
5
Q
Rotate
A
Rotate in 3D across X Y and Z axis
6
Q
Walkthrough
A
Visit rooms etc in 2D
7
Q
Costing
A
Produce estimate of cost of building materials
8
Q
Stress and strain
A
Working out the weights materials can take
9
Q
Wire drawings
A
See design without any finishes or solid form
10
Q
Plotter
A
Hard copies of drawings (big printer)
11
Q
Uses of CAD/CAM
A
- Designing houses –architects
- Product design
- Designing cars
- Designing bridges
- Fashion design
- Landscape/Garden design
- Furniture design
12
Q
Input
A
- Scanner
- Digital camera
- Digitiser
- Graphics tablet and pen
13
Q
Output
A
- High resolution Colour monitor
- Plotter
- Any suitable machine (in a CAD/CAM system)
14
Q
Vector drawings
A
Vector drawings are saved by a series of instructions and Vector drawings have the ability to be changed at a later stage so that they give more flexibility and can be amended easier
15
Q
Bitmap drawings
A
Bitmaps are the position and colour of pixels on screen
