Course outline

Semester 1 2017

MANF9543

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN &

MANUFACTURE (CAD/CAM)
Contents

1. Staff contact details ....................................................................................................... 2

Contact details and consultation times for course convenor .............................................. 2
Contact details and consultation times for additional lecturers/demonstrators/lab staff ...... 2
2. Course details ............................................................................................................... 2
Credit Points ..................................................................................................................... 2
Contact hours.................................................................................................................... 3
Summary of the course ..................................................................................................... 3
Aims of the course ............................................................................................................ 3
Student learning outcomes ................................................................................................ 3
3. Teaching strategies ....................................................................................................... 4
4. Course schedule ........................................................................................................... 4
5. Assessment................................................................................................................... 6
Assessment overview........................................................................................................ 6
Assignments ..................................................................................................................... 7
Presentation .................................................................................................................. 7
Submission.................................................................................................................... 7
Marking ......................................................................................................................... 7
Examinations .................................................................................................................... 7
Calculators .................................................................................................................... 7
Special consideration and supplementary assessment ..................................................... 8
6. Expected resources for students ................................................................................... 8
7. Course evaluation and development ............................................................................. 8
8. Academic honesty and plagiarism ................................................................................. 8
9. Administrative matters ................................................................................................... 9
Appendix A: Engineers Australia (EA) Competencies ......................................................... 10

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1. Staff contact details

Contact details and consultation times for course convenor

Name: Dr Ronald Chan

Office location: J17, room 507
Tel: (02) 9385 1535
Email: [email protected]

Consultation for this course is available immediately after each lecture. For additional
consultation, please make an appointment with the staff by email.

Contact details and consultation times for additional lecturers/demonstrators/lab staff

Name: Dr Erik van Voorthuysen

Office location: J17, room 507
Tel: (02) 9385 4147
Email: [email protected]

Consultation for this course is available immediately after each lecture. For additional
consultation, please make an appointment with the staff by email.

Contact details of additional demonstrators will be given in class.

2. Course details

Credit Points

This is a 6 unit-of-credit (UoC) course, and involves 4 hours per week (h/w) of face-to-face
contact.

The UNSW website states “The normal workload expectations of a student are
approximately 25 hours per semester for each UoC, including class contact hours, other
learning activities, preparation and time spent on all assessable work. Thus, for a full-time
enrolled student, the normal workload, averaged across the 16 weeks of teaching, study and
examination periods, is about 37.5 hours per week.”

This means that you should aim to spend about 9 h/w on this course. The additional time
should be spent in making sure that you understand the lecture material, completing the set
assignments, further reading, and revising for any examinations.

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Contact hours

Day Time Location

Lectures Monday 12noon - 2pm Colombo Theatre B
Demonstrations Monday 2pm – 4pm Ainsworth 203/204

Summary of the course

This course teaches students the principles and applications of CAD/CAM in product and
manufacturing design, and is highly relevant to future trends in automation and
manufacturing processes. It teaches the underlying theory of CAD/CAM, but most
importantly teaches students the skills needed to design using CAD/CAM. The School
operates a number of design platforms, most notably SolidWorks and SolidCAM software.
The course teaches the essential steps that one takes to develop a product from concept to
manufacture starting with CAD, and progressing to simulation, using CAM and CAE software
support.

Aims of the course

This course will enable students to explore and gain further understanding of how CAD/CAM
can be used in Manufacturing Industry. This course will also provide students with
opportunity to explore innovation in design using SolidWorks, SolidCAM and the Denford
CAM software.

Student learning outcomes

This course is designed to address the learning outcomes below and the corresponding
Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standards for Professional Engineers as shown.
The full list of Stage 1 Competency Standards may be found in Appendix A.

After successfully completing this course, you should be able to:

EA Stage 1
Learning Outcome
Competencies
Apply the design concepts for any design task in
1. PE1.1, PE1.5, PE2.3
CAD/CAM environment.
Apply the best use of Computer Aided Manufacture
2. PE1.2, PE2.2, PE2.3
techniques in a modern factory.
Create a concept of CAD/CAM application for the Rapid
3. PE1.2, PE2.2, PE2.3
Prototyping Technology.
By the conclusion of this course the student will be able to
4. develop knowledge and skills in designing using both PE2.2, PE2.3, PE3.3
SolidWorks and SolidCAM software.

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3. Teaching strategies

Lectures in the course are designed to cover the terminology and core concepts and
theories in the area of manufacturing process design. They do not simply reiterate the texts,
but build on the lecture topics using examples taken directly from industry to show how the
theory is applied in practice and the details of when, where and how it should be applied.The
first assignment prompts students in applying engineering design using CAD. The second
assignment is a group assignment with an individual submission that exposes students to
the real world situation by applying CAD and CAM to produce a commercial product.
Demonstrations will be provided during the course of completing this project. The group
demonstrations are arranged to provide teams with personalised feedback.

4. Course schedule

Date Topic Lecture Content Demonstration Content

• House-keeping rules • Navigate around

• CAD VS CAM Solidworks
27/02/17 Introduction to
• Solidworks introductory • Extruded
(Week 1) CAD/CAM
video boss/base
• 3D modelling revision operation
• Mirror operation
• Sketch arcs
Building Complex • Offset operation
06/03/17 • Mirror entities
3D Models in • Hole wizard
(Week 2) • Circular patter
Solidworks • eDrawings with augmented
operation
reality (AR)
• Engineering drawing
• Produce part
Engineering standards
13/03/17 and assembly
drawings in • Orthogonal views
(Week 3) engineering
Solidworks • Layout planning
drawings
• Dimensioning
• Mate/Advanced mate • Assemble air
20/03/17 Assemblies in • Bill of materials engine exercise
(Week 4) Solidworks • Exploded view • Using fasteners
• Animation library
• Historical design guidelines
• Axiomatic Design • Design exercise
27/03/17
Design Theory • VDI Design Norms using
(Week 5)
• Design example using VDI- Solidworks
2221
• Show case Denford 4-axis
• Perform CAM-
router
Part definition
03/04/17 CAM Operations • Introduction to SolidCAM
• Face mill and
(Week 6) Part I and Denford VR
profile mill in
• Define coordinate system
SolidCAM
• Face mill and profile mill
• Advanced
• Pocket operation SolidCAM
10/04/17 CAM Operations
• Drill operation operations –
(Week 7) Part II
• Thread milling Pocket, drill and
thread milling

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• Economics of
manufacturing On-going group
24/04/17 Product-Process
• Costing methods assignment support in the
(Week 8) Analysis
• Value analysis computer room
• Value engineering
• Reading machine
handbook On-going group
01/05/17 Machining
• Selecting depth of cut assignment support in the
(Week 9) Conditions
• Selecting feed rate computer room
• Selecting spindle speed
On-going group
08/05/17
On-going group assignment support in the lecture room assignment support in the
(Week 10)
computer room
On-going group
15/05/17
On-going group assignment support in the lecture room assignment support in the
(Week 11)
computer room
22/05/17
Group Presentation
(Week 12)

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5. Assessment

Assessment overview

Learning Due date and

Deadline for
Assessment Length Weight outcomes Assessment criteria submission Marks returned
absolute fail
assessed requirements
5pm, Friday, Week 5 Immediately after the Immediately after the
1.5 hours 30% in total Lecture content
Online Quiz x 2 1, 2 and 3 (31/03) and Week 12 quiz is closed on quiz is closed on
each (15% each) (Progressive)
(26/05) via Moodle Moodle Moodle
CAD
Solidworks Solidworks and 5pm, Friday, Week 5 1 week after due 2 weeks after
drawings 25% 1 and 3
Assignment design skills (31/03) via Moodle date submission
submission
During
Group Project 15 minutes Project progress
5% 1, 2, 3 and 4 lecture/demonstration N/A Graded on-the-spot
Progress Review per group evaluation
sessions
Completeness,
20 pages,
originality, level of
single sided, 5pm, Friday, Week 13 1 week after due 2 weeks after
Group Project 40% 1, 3 and 4 details, project
min. font (02/06) via Moodle date submission
management, and
size 11
report writing skills

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Assignments

Presentation

All submissions are expected to be neat and clearly set out. Your results are the pinnacle of
all your hard work and should be treated with due respect. Presenting results clearly gives
the marker the best chance of understanding your method; even if the numerical results are
incorrect.

Submission

Late submissions will be penalised 5 marks per calendar day (including weekends). An
extension may only be granted in exceptional circumstances. Where an assessment task is
worth less than 20% of the total course mark and you have a compelling reason for being
unable to submit your work on time, you must seek approval for an extension from the
course convenor before the due date. Special consideration for assessment tasks of 20%
or greater must be processed through student.unsw.edu.au/special-consideration.

It is always worth submitting late assessment tasks when possible. Completion of the work,
even late, may be taken into account in cases of special consideration.

Where there is no special consideration granted, the ‘deadline for absolute fail’ in the table
above indicates the time after which a submitted assignment will not be marked, and will
achieve a score of zero for the purpose of determining overall grade in the course.

Marking

Marking guidelines for assignment submissions will be provided at the same time as
assignment details to assist with meeting assessable requirements. Submissions will be
marked according to the marking guidelines provided.

Examinations

You must be available for all tests (quizzes) and examinations. There is no final examination
for this course.

For further information on exams, please see the Exams section on the intranet.

Calculators

You will need to provide your own calculator, of a make and model approved by UNSW, for
the examinations. The list of approved calculators is shown at
student.unsw.edu.au/exam-approved-calculators-and-computers

It is your responsibility to ensure that your calculator is of an approved make and model, and
to obtain an “Approved” sticker for it from the School Office or the Engineering Student

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Centre prior to the examination. Calculators not bearing an “Approved” sticker will not be
allowed into the examination room.

Special consideration and supplementary assessment

For details of applying for special consideration and conditions for the award of
supplementary assessment, see the School intranet, and the information on UNSW’s
Special Consideration page.

6. Expected resources for students

Reference Books:
1. Computer-Aided Design and Manufacture – Prepared by Khoi Hoang for UNSW -
MacGraw-Hill Custom Publishing, 2011 – ISBN-101-12-106812-X
2. Systems Approach to Computer-Integrated Design and Manufacturing by Nanua
Singh, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996.
3. Computer-Integrated Design and Manufacturing by David D. Bedworth et alliances,
MacGraw-Hill International, 1991.

Additional lecture notes and materials will be given via Moodle.

If you wish to explore any of the lecture topics in more depth, then other resources are
available and assistance may be obtained from the UNSW Library website:
https://www.library.unsw.edu.au/

7. Course evaluation and development

Feedback on the course is gathered periodically using various means, including the UNSW
myExperience process, informal discussion in the final class for the course, and the School’s
Student/Staff meetings. Your feedback is taken seriously, and continual improvements are
made to the course based, in part, on such feedback.

In this course, recent improvements resulting from student feedback include more
demonstrator support to the student major group project. The School has also purchasing a
4-axis milling router for learning and teaching. Students will be able to see CAD/CAM
operations in real-life.

8. Academic honesty and plagiarism

UNSW has an ongoing commitment to fostering a culture of learning informed by academic

integrity. All UNSW students have a responsibility to adhere to this principle of academic
integrity. Plagiarism undermines academic integrity and is not tolerated at UNSW. Plagiarism
at UNSW is defined as using the words or ideas of others and passing them off as your own.

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Plagiarism is a type of intellectual theft. It can take many forms, from deliberate cheating to
accidentally copying from a source without acknowledgement. UNSW has produced a
website with a wealth of resources to support students to understand and avoid plagiarism:
student.unsw.edu.au/plagiarism The Learning Centre assists students with understanding
academic integrity and how not to plagiarise. They also hold workshops and can help
students one-on-one.

You are also reminded that careful time management is an important part of study and one
of the identified causes of plagiarism is poor time management. Students should allow
sufficient time for research, drafting and the proper referencing of sources in preparing all
assessment tasks.

If plagiarism is found in your work when you are in first year, your lecturer will offer you
assistance to improve your academic skills. They may ask you to look at some online
resources, attend the Learning Centre, or sometimes resubmit your work with the problem
fixed. However more serious instances in first year, such as stealing another student’s work
or paying someone to do your work, may be investigated under the Student Misconduct
Procedures.

Repeated plagiarism (even in first year), plagiarism after first year, or serious instances, may
also be investigated under the Student Misconduct Procedures. The penalties under the
procedures can include a reduction in marks, failing a course or for the most serious matters
(like plagiarism in an honours thesis) even suspension from the university. The Student
Misconduct Procedures are available here:
www.gs.unsw.edu.au/policy/documents/studentmisconductprocedures.pdf

Further information on School policy and procedures in the event of plagiarism is available
on the intranet.

9. Administrative matters

All students are expected to read and be familiar with School guidelines and polices,
available on the intranet. In particular, students should be familiar with the following:

• Attendance, Participation and Class Etiquette

• UNSW Email Address
• Computing Facilities
• Assessment Matters (including guidelines for assignments, exams and special
consideration)
• Academic Honesty and Plagiarism
• Student Equity and Disabilities Unit
• Health and Safety
• Student Support Services

Ron Chan
Feb 2017

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Appendix A: Engineers Australia (EA) Competencies
Stage 1 Competencies for Professional Engineers
Program Intended Learning Outcomes
PE1.1 Comprehensive, theory-based understanding of underpinning
fundamentals
PE1.2 Conceptual understanding of underpinning maths, analysis, statistics,
PE1: Knowledge
and Skill Base

computing
PE1.3 In-depth understanding of specialist bodies of knowledge
PE1.4 Discernment of knowledge development and research directions
PE1.5 Knowledge of engineering design practice
PE1.6 Understanding of scope, principles, norms, accountabilities of
sustainable engineering practice
PE2.1 Application of established engineering methods to complex problem
Application Ability
PE2: Engineering

solving
PE2.2 Fluent application of engineering techniques, tools and resources
PE2.3 Application of systematic engineering synthesis and design
processes
PE2.4 Application of systematic approaches to the conduct and
management of engineering projects
PE3.1 Ethical conduct and professional accountability
PE3: Professional

PE3.2 Effective oral and written communication (professional and lay

and Personal
Attributes

domains)
PE3.3 Creative, innovative and pro-active demeanour
PE3.4 Professional use and management of information
PE3.5 Orderly management of self, and professional conduct
PE3.6 Effective team membership and team leadership

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