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ArtCAM
Course Notes
This booklet contains a full training course for ArtCAM developed
and used by Boxford accredited trainers. It has been designed to be
used in conjunction with the Tutorial and Exercise files shipped on
the Resource CD. The booklet is provided in an easy to use PDF format
and can be freely copied, printed and distributed. It is very comprehensive
and a great use is made of full colour images to help illustrate all
the techniques and procedures discussed.
Contents
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Introduction
Getting Started
Tutorial 1 (Creating a Relief from a Bitmap)
Tutorial 2 (Colour Selection and Bitmap tools)
Tutorial 3 (Vectors)
Tutorial 4 (Vector Editing)
Tutorial 5 (Converting Vectors to Reliefs)
Tutorial 6 (Relief Menu)
Tutorial 7 (Building Reliefs)
Tutorial 8 (Colour Linking and multiple 2D drawings)
Tutorial 9 (Swept Profiles)
Tutorial 10 (Modulation and Extrusion)
Tutorial 11 (Relief Editing)
Tutorial 12 (Text)
Tutorial 13 (Importing Clip-Art and Sculpting)
Tutorial 14 (Importing 3D Relief Clip-Art)
Tutorial 15 (Importing a Digital Photograph)
Tutorial 16 (Lighting and Materials)
Tutorial 17 (Output From ArtCAM)
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The following
is an exert taken from ArtCAM Course Notes :
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Introduction
ArtCAM for
Education is a 3 dimensional design packaged used for manufacturing.
The main purpose of the package is to create a 3 D relief of
the part to be manufactured, the designs available to be printed
or output in any other way are secondary to the main purpose.
ArtCAM uses both Vectors and Bitmaps to create reliefs and is
much more an artists package than an engineers. In the following
tutorials and exercises we will work through many of the features
within the package though the manual and tutorials supplied
with the software should also be used to get a thorough grounding
in its use.
In basic modeling we will create reliefs from the colours of Bitmap
images. Vectors will be used to create the boundaries that contain
the Bitmaps. Latter we will use vectors to define the profile
of a solid and paths for the solid to be applied to.
We will also use a library of 3D reliefs, import images from
standard 2 D clip-art and create a relief from a Photograph.
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Manufacturing Information
This booklet
contains manufacturing information used to support Pro/DESKTOP
Courses. It covers methods of realising components using educational
CNC and Rapid Prototyping solutions. The booklet is provided in
an easy to use PDF format and can be freely copied, printed and
distributed.
Contents
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Pro/DESKTOP
output Formats
Designing within constraints
Manufacturing using MiniCAM
Manufacturing using a DXF output
Manufacturing Rapid Prototype Models |
The following
are some screenshots taken from Manufacturing Information:
Pro/DESKTOP
Course Notes
This booklet
contains a full training course for Pro/DESKTOP developed and
used by Boxford accredited trainers. It has been designed to be
used in conjunction with the Tutorial and Exercise files shipped
on the Resource CD. The booklet is provided in an easy to use
PDF format and can be freely copied, printed and distributed.
Contents
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Introduction
Tutorial 1: Basic Modeling
Tutorial 2: Basic Drawing
Tutorial 3: Edit Options
Tutorial 4: Duplicate
Tutorial 5: Mirror, Offset Chain
Tutorial 6: Project, Add Text
Tutorial 7: Revolve
Tutorial 8: Swept Profile
Tutorial 9: Loft Through Profile
Tutorial 10: Draft Face Deform Face
Tutorial 11: Insert Holes
Tutorial 12: Pattern and Shell
Tutorial 13: Assembly
Tutorial 14: Photo Rendering |
The following is an exert taken from Pro/DESKTOP Course Notes :
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Introduction
to Pro/DESKTOP 2000i
Pro/DESKTOP is a feature based solid modeling and assembly
modeling package with an inbuilt feature based drafting package
designed to run on a PC. The software has three major parts
to it being 3D Design, 2D drafting and a 3D Album or visualisation
package. All three packages interact and changes made to one
affect the others. The first package we will look at is the
3D design.
Other Useful Pro/DESKTOP features
Pro/DESKTOP has comprehensive help tutorials available,
two of which we will work through in this course. These
tutorials can be found under the Pro/DESKTOP help menu.
Other Useful features within Pro/DESKTOP are the View and
zoom options available using the space bar.
Tap the space bar when looking at a design and the drawing
can be manipulated:
" By holding down the mouse left button and moving
the mouse the design is rotated
" Press Shift and then left click and the drawing
is moved on the screen
" Press Ctrl and left click and you can zoom in and
out.
With the above basics in mind we can move onto designing a
component following the Basic Modeling Tutorial.
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Projects
& Tutorials
As part of the
Curriculum CD Boxford have a included the Tutorials to be used in
conjunction with the Pro/DESKTOP and ArtCAM course notes as well
as a number of example projects.
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