Code No.

2136
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
B.E. 3/4 (M/P/AE) II Semester (Suppl.) Examination, December 2012
Subject: CAD / CAM
Time: 3 Hours Max.Marks: 75
Note : Answer all questions from Part A. Answer any Five questions from Part B.
PART A (25 Marks)
1. What are basic geometric elements?
2. Describe circle with parametric form?
3. What are mass properties?
4. Where shearing and reflection transformations are used? Explain.
5 What is CAD Database? Explain.
6 What is canned cycle?
7. Differentiate between CNC & DNC.
8. What is CIMS?
9. Explain reverse Engineering.
10. Sketch Cartesian robot and mention the base and arm motions.
PART B (50 Marks)
11. What are the properties of splines? Explain how a Bezier curve is composed
with 4 polygen vertices, P
o
(1,1), P
1
(2,5), P
3
(4,6) and P
4
(6,2).
12. Differentiate between
(a) Analytic and synthetic surfaces
(b) C-rep and B-rep modeling
(c) computer Aided tolerencing and finite element analysis.
13.(a) Explain PDES format and their applications.
(b) What is APT? How APT is used for turning and milling the components?
Explain with examples.
14.(a) What is adaptive control? Explain ACC adaptive control system.
(b) Describe the robot programming methods.
15.(a) What are elements in FMS and their control?
(b) What is QC? Explain various methods of QC.
16.(a) What is GT Layout and part family? Explain MICLASS coding.
(b) A rectangle ABCD, A(1,1), B(5,1), C(5,5) and D(1,5) is scaled asent C by 5
units in x-axis and 3 units in y-axis then find the new coordinates of rectangle.
17. Write the following:
(a) Wire frame and surface modeling
(b) FANVC and SINVMERIC controllers
(c) Rapid prototyping technologies.
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