Computer Aided Design (CAD)

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CAD Embedded with CFD Makes for Better Gas Mixing

CFD embedded into CAD can help to accurately mix gases. Engineers can simulate an existing product to try and better it, or start from scratch to create something new. As a case study, examining the Eclipse Linnox burner, a product that reduces the energy consumption of fans that push air into the natural gas burners, shows how best to use CFD for higher efficiency in the design process. A greater understanding of design sensitivities is achieved with CFD than with physical testing.

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CAD: Not Just <br>for Engineers

CAD: Not Just for Engineers

CAD programs make useful tools in areas beyond straight engineering. Kathy Dickinson uses CAD to design patterns for her business, Halea’s Doll Clothes. Alfred Kypta had a background in electrical engineering, so it was only natural that he would use a CAD program with his jewelry making. And the design firm, Chermayeff, Sollogub, and Poole uses CAD for less than traditional architecture, such as an aquarium expansion and a greenhouse style building.

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The Future of Design

The Future of Design

The way that engineers enter data into a CAD program is likely to evolve. And the workplace itself may evolve through CAD as well. Levent Burak Kara, for instance, has long tried to convince engineers that his pen-like input device is superior to using a mouse. Touchscreens, too, will allow engineers to put designs and information right where they’re looking at it. Mark Jakiela, is hoping to make a kind of virtual office where freelancers can work together on various projects.

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ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Division (CIE)

The CIE covers a broad spectrum of resources relating directly to the use of computers, computing methods, software, and information management in engineering by providing a forum for understanding the application of emerging technologies that impact critical engineering issues of representation, product design and product development, exchange, management and integration of information throughout the entire engineering product and process life-cycle.

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Verification and Validation (V&V) in Computational Modeling and Simulation

ASME Design Engineering Division (DED)

Computer Aided Design (CAD) uses computerized calculations and digital graphics to create and manage the points, lines, and surfaces (geometry). Nearly all physical products and tooling are designed this way. To eliminate error-prone tasks, drawing and measurement are automated. Documentation, version management, standards are used; so are animation, dynamics, kinematics, and tools for analysis and simulation. Most CAD is now solid modeling; virtual or digital solids replace geometry elements.