Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
School of Engineering

MET 306

Computer Aided Design

 

Syllabus

Announcements:

Late work will only be accepted until (subject to 10% reduction):

     Wednesday labs…..5:00 Thursday
     Thursday labs.....5:00 Friday
    Graded labs will be returned the following Tuesday during the lecture period

All labs are due 10 minutes after lab starts or they are considered late.

Important:  Your instructor has 60+ lab assignments to grade.  Most of these assignments are composed of five to six pages of documentation.  Not following directions concerning the order of sheets turned in or not stapling sheets will cost you 10% of the grade for that project.  You do not want the instructor having to try to "find" information in your documentation packet.

Downloads are available from the pro_e courseware data disk.

EGT 121 Handouts; courtesy of Mr. Evans are available on ANGEL in the MET 306 Combined Sections Spring 2008 folder.

[Handouts Folder under the Lesson Tab]

You can refer to these documents when creating detail drawings.

 

Assignment

Date
(Week)

Description

Due

Lab 1

1/14

Holes, Rounds, Cuts, Draft, Detail Drawing (Review)
Inheritance Features (New)
     Additional Reading : Hiding External Sketches

Beginning of Lab 2

Lab 1 Continued

1/21

Lab 1 Continued.  Wildfire 3 interface

 

Lab 2a
Lab 2b

Lab 2c

1/28

Parallel Blends with Ordinate Dimensions (Review), Composite Curves
Top-Down Assembly (Review), Composite Curves
Swept Blends (Using neutral files, analysis information)

Beginning of Lab 3

Lab 3a
Lab 3b
Lab 3c

2/4

Surface Modeling 
Manually creating Shells w/ Surfaces
Boundary Surfaces 

Beginning of Lab 4

Homework 1

 

Lab 4a
Lab 4b

 

2/11

Software Piracy

 

Modeling surface tangency (traditional)
Surface creation using ISDX

2/21/08

 

Beginning of Lab 5

Homework 2

 

Lab 5

2/18

Variable Section Sweeps – How To

Variable Section Sweeps Homework Specifications   

 

Pro/Casting

3/4/08

 

Beginning of Lab 6

 

Lab 6

 

2/25

 Pro/Manufacturing - Tool path generation
Vericut - Checking tool paths

 

Beginning of Lab 7

 

Lab 7a
Lab 7b

3/3

Sheetmetal

Beginning of Lab 8

Homework 3

 

Lab 8

3/17

Forces in Truss

 

Mechanism Design

3/20/08

 

Beginning of Lab 9

Semester Project

 

3 Part Project

5/5/08, 1 PM

(Policy 44-20)

Lab 9

 

3/24

Excel Spreadsheet for Engineering Design

 

Semester Project, Part 1 due 3/27

Beginning of Lab 10

 

Lab 10

3/31

Expert Framework Extension

Beginning of Lab 11

Lab 11

4/7

Automation with Excel and  Pro/E using Pro/PROGRAM

Beginning of Lab 12

Lab 12a

Lab 12b

4/14

Automation with Mathcad and Pro/E

 

Semester Project, Part 2 due 4/17

Beginning of Lab 13

Lab 13

Lab 13 Addendum

4/21

Introduction to Sensitivity/Optimization Studies with Behavioral Modeler

Beginning of Lab 14

Lab 14a 
Lab 14b 
Lab 14c 

 4/28

Applications with Behavioral Modeler

5 PM - 5/8/08