MAE
455: Computer-Aided Drafting and Design
Fall 2025
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Lectures
08/21 Introduction to CAD (video - The Future of Design)
08/26 Introduction to SolidWorks 2024
08/28 Geometric Modeling
09/2 Curves (download amphitheater part, airplane curve part)
09/4 Constraints (multiple_solutions, dangling_relations)
09/9 Sweep Operations and Engineering Features (canoe, soap dish, soap dish finished)
09/11 Design Intent, Reference geometry, and Boolean operations (desktop grommet 1, desktop grommet 2, oil pan 1, oil pan 2, shaft, combine solids)
09/16 Local modification, direct modeling, and copy operations (lecture_8_blends, lecture_8_fillet cut, lecture_8_bend_operation, lecture_8_pattern_part)
09/18 Work on Assignment 1
09/23 User Equations (lecture_9_shaft)
09/25 Drafting (lecture_10_end_stop)
09/30 Solid Model Representations (lecture_11_nonmanifold)
10/2 Overview for Midterm
10/7 Midterm Exam
10/14 Assembly modeling (lecture_12_end part, lecture_12_middle_part)
10/16a Internet Catalogs (downloaded bearing, downloaded_actuator)
10/16b CAD Data formats
10/21 Product Data Management
10/23 Work on Assignment 3
10/28 Freeform Surface Modeling (phone finished, phone sections, different phone finished, different phone sections, phone sections rounded top, circle-triangle-square, intake manifold)
10/30 Freeform Surface Modeling - Wing Demo (Final wing, Step 1, Step 2, Step 3, Step 4, Step 5, Step 6, Step 7, Profile coordinates)
11/6 Parametric Representation of Curves and Surfaces (loft_closed.prt)
11/11 Top-down Assembly Modeling (lecture_18_over_center_clamp.zip)
11/13 Top-down Assembly Modeling (Top_down_remote_control.zip)
11/18 Work on Assignment 5
12/2 Motion Analysis (clamp parts)
12/4 Optimization using CAD (fuel tank, shelf bracket, shelf bracket volume)
12/9 CNC Path Generation (machined parts)
12/11 Review for Lab Exam
12/16 Lab Exam
Tutorials
Lab Assignments
Lab Assignment 1 (gallery, grading scheme)
Lab Assignment 2 (gallery, grading scheme)
Lab Assignment 3 (gallery, grading scheme)
Lab Assignment 4 (gallery, grading scheme)
Lab Assignment 5 (gallery, grading scheme)
Exams
Midterm Exam Practice Questions - Answers
Lab Exam Practice Questions (parts) - Answers