Today's world of engineering requires considerable experience and training in ‘designing and drafting principles, and techniques’, to be successful. AutoCAD is a program that helps to create electrical control design, documentation, panel layout, schematic design and project management, and carry out other common design tasks effectively. Technical staff should be aware of basic AutoCAD commands and computer-aided-drafting concepts to draw, design, and draft. This course is designed to help students to understand the fundamentals of AutoCAD commands including Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design and MATLAB concepts. After completing this course, students will have sound knowledge on CAD to prepare neat and accurate electrical engineering drawings for industrial power and control applications. 

 

WHO SHOULD COMPLETE THIS COURSE

• Electrical Engineers
• Architects
• Electrical technicians
• Draftsmen
• Instrumentation engineers
• Designers
• Field engineers
• Project managers
• Inspectors
• Contractors

 

COURSE OUTLINE

BASIC CAD CONCEPTS

• Introduction to CAD
• Parts of an Engineering drawing

 

AUTOCAD USER INTERFACE

• What is AUTOCAD?
• AUTOCAD Interface
• Creating new diagram
• Initialising

 

BASIC DRAWING COMMANDS

• Object snap
• Drawing line
• Drawing circle
• Drawing arc

 

BASIC EDITING COMMANDS

• Edit and Modify
• Copy command and Minor command
• Array command
• Lengthen command

 

AUTOCAD 3D DRAWING

• Wireframe modeling
• Solid modeling

 

COMPONENTS OF VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT

• Virtual Instruments
• Controls and function palettes
• Tips for working in Labview

 

DATA ACQUISITION

• DAQ – Data acquisition
• Data acquisition terminology
• Hardware connections

 

LOOPS AND CHARTS

• For loop
• While loop
• Charts

 

ARRAYS AND FILE I/O

• Adding an array
• Creating an array with a loop
• Creating 2D arrays
• File I/O examples

 

ARRAY FUNCTION AND GRAPH

• General VI architecture
• State machine architecture

 

ANALOG-DIGITAL CIRCUIT SIMULATION CONCEPTS

• Analog circuits and applications
• Commonly used components
• 'Settings for components
• Simulation settings
• Schematics and simulation commands

 

ANALOGUE SIMULATIONS WITH LTSPICEIV

• Fullwave rectifier
• Solution
• Buck converter
• Three phase rectifier example

 

SIMULATIONS WITH NI MULTISIM

• Placing components
• Taking simple measurements
• Setting inductor values
• Simulation on Multisim
• Examples

 

PCB PREPARATION

• PCB Applications
• System specification 
• System block diagram
• PCB design process
• PCB design flow

 

PROCESS OVERVIEW

• Design requirements
• PCB elements
• PCB manufacturing & parts
• Parts Selection guidelines

 

PCB LAYOUT PROCEDURE

• Layout rules
• Part/Function placement
• Routing consideration
• Copper areas

 

GERBER FILE OUTPUT

• Exporting Drill and Gerber files
• Reviewing manufacture data
• Gerber tool example

 

BASIC CONCEPTS

• What is MATLAB?
• MATLAB functionality
• User Interface
• Workspace
• MATLAB Variables
• Vector and Matrices
• Complex valued numbers

 

CONTROL FLOW

• Nested branch control
• Switch Statement
• Operators and relational operators

 

FUNCTION AND RECURSION

• Script and function files
• Area of circle
• Recursion in function

 

FILE INPUT AND OUTPUT

• Opening data from files
• Printing data to files
• Opening and close examples