WEEK 3: COMPUTER EIDED DESIGN

DESIGN PROJECTS USING COMPUTER SOFTWARE

GOAL

USED SOFTWARE


INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN


Computer-Aided Design (CAD) refers to the use of a computer software to create, modify, design, document, or analyze a product's design process, thus being able to create designs based on geometric shapes to create the products. Engineering drawing entails the use of graphical symbols such as points, lines, curves, planes and shapes.

CAD software enables;

Types of CAD Software;

Vector VS Raster Graphics


The most important difference between vector and raster graphics is that raster is encompass of pixels like the photos which lose it's quality when we resizing it's size. For instance, .TIFF, .ONG, .JPG, AND .GIF formats that used roster graphics. Whereas, vector is encompass of paths, so it relies on a mathematical calculations that starts from one point to another, thus forming lines and shapes. So, you could resize the photos' size without losing it's quality, and this kind of graphics is best used for printing a sticker. The diverse file format of this kind of graphic is, .AI, .EPS, .SVG and .PDF.



2D SOFTWARE TOOLS


Inkscape is a free and open-source vector graphics editor used to create vector images. Other purpose of using Inkscape is to render primitive vector shapes and text.




Inkscape Desgin File

3D SOFTWARE TOOLS


Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and 2D animation pipeline.


Blender Desgin File


LESSONS LEARNED


1. 2D AND 3D DESIGN SOFTWARES

I studied AUTOCAD at my Bachelor degree, but just like a one course as I was a Computer Engineer. In addition, I was a designer using photoshop, however, since years I was out of these kinds of tasks. So, I face difficulty while practicing designing the models.

2. EMBEDED THE YOUTUBE VIDEO

The Youtube videos should be in Embed mode to be able to insert it into the HTML code, as it will not work and got an error if the video been inserted as a Watch mode.



Author: Eng. Khulood AlZaabi

Date: February 09, 2021