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
