A Blog About Computer Aided Design
Design a chair in AutoCAD
Here is another post about designing a furniture in AutoCAD. Last time we had to design a chair in AutoCAD, but the backrest was not covered in the tutorial. In this post I will try walking you through important steps of modeling the backrest of the late chair we worked on here, and I will […]
Furniture design – Dining table
With the aim of helping you try harder in the area of Computer aided furniture design, I am coming up today with this simple wooden dining table to model and render. The most interesting parts to model in this example are legs. The table top part is in itself the easiest part to model. In […]
Home design software
The release of IKEA’s home design software—the IKEA Home Planner—shook the world of interior decoration as well as the CAD community due to the fact that for the first time, the average individual with no prior knowledge of computer aided design could now import furniture pieces—straight from IKEA’s furniture catalogues—and design his or her living […]
Top 5 Design Software Applications for Antennas Design
An electrical engineer or the average tech enthusiast looking to design and develop an antenna for commercial reasons or for his or her own private us, must have both a technical and theoretical knowledge on how these structures function, as well as the different design/analytical methods and criteria—electromagnetic field, propagation, radiation, geometry, design materials etc.—that […]
What drone for what purpose?
Since there are a lot of type of drones on the market today, I thought about dropping a couple of lines on those which in my opinion deserve some attention from a newbie’s point of view. Most time, drones are use purely for recreational activities but you can get a lot more while flying a […]
Modeling a fan blade
It could be very tricky modeling a fan blade in AutoCAD using basic commands. This will be very difficult to achieve if you have not been playing a lot with surface modeling. Here is a simple step by step tutorial about how you can easily model a fan blade in AutoCAD. Below is the image […]
Microstrip Antenna design with Ansys HFSS
Here is a simplified Microstrip antenna design with Ansys HFSS. There are few basic things that must be known before designing an antenna in general such as: The frequency range in which the antenna is planed to be be propagating, the size of the antenna, the material, the gain of the antenna and the structure […]
A stability Matlab code
If you have ever worked with numerical methods you will know that a major issue with using these methods is not only the exactness of the method but most time, we struggle too with stability of each of the methods. In this post I am simply going to give a Matlab code which you can […]
Modeling an Alloy Wheel in CATIA
In this session, we are modeling an Alloy Wheel in CATIA using simple techniques. An alloy wheel is a substitute of commonly used steel wheels. It integrates all parts of a normal wheel: wiz. Rim, Spokes, Wheel Hub… Alloy wheels are generally lightweight than common wheels, thus they improve vehicle performance. Modeling an Alloy Wheel […]
Guide to owning unmanned aerial vehicles
Imagine having the ability to fly or project yourself to anywhere of your choosing and observe certain proceedings without anyone been aware of your presence, what will you do? While the US chose to spy on bizarre situations such as on the soccer training camp of the Germans, I believe most of us will use […]
Best Free architecture software
Are you looking for good free architecture software to get your small projects done? There is good news for you! There are companies out there offering free architecture software, free to download. Not everyone has spare money to spend on a software, and luckily companies like AutoDesk and Google are taking this “category” into account […]
HFSS Antenna Design
ANSYS HFSS software is one the commonly used modeling software for simulating 3D electromagnetic wave propagation. It is one of the essential tool for engineers involved in project in the field of high-speed electronic and high frequency components. Here is a step by step HFSS Antenna design tutorial performed for the sake of letting beginners […]
3D AutoCAD tips
Here are some 3D AutoCAD tips for beginners. We will be reviewing three command that could help you extend your skill in modeling using the CAD software AutoCAD. AutoCAD offers a ton of commands, and most time the one we are frequently using are those we already know how to use, failing to explore and […]
Furniture design in AutoCAD
What CAD software do you think is suitable for furniture design? What do you think about furniture design in AutoCAD? It is always better to try different CAD software with the same exact project, to be able to not only get a personal opinion but to see which one correspond better to your need. Here […]
Threaded rod in AutoCAD
I recently got a comment from a reader of this blog asking me to do a tutorial about how to model a threaded rod in AutoCAD, but I actually thought we have already gone through this topic while we talked about how to draw a spring in AutoCAD. It turned out that the latest tutorial, […]
Runge kutta Matlab code
This is an exercise which is solved just for the purpose of comparing two numeral methods and see which one of them is more accurate. Here we will be using Matlab to solve the equations with two different methods, which are: Second order Runge Kutta method and the inbuilt matlab function ode45 (which is by […]
How to draw a klein bottle in AutoCAD
A klein bottle is a closed surface with only one side, formed by passing one end of a tube through the side of the tube and joining it to the other end. (Definition from Google). Here is a tutorial where you will learn how to draw a klein bottle in AutoCAD. I will suggest you […]
NX CAD
NX is a very powerful CAD software by the German’s company Siemens It is a widely used software nowadays. In this NX CAD tutorial, we want to create a Protective Back Cover of mobile in NX 8.0. A Protective Back Cover is usually made up of Silicone. It absorbs minor shocks and protects a mobile […]
Ten Free CAD Software Alternatives to AutoCAD for Students
Due to the wide acceptance of our article on the top free CAD software application available to students in the field of graphics design, architecture and engineering, we thought of providing our readers with alternatives to the first 10 software applications—we wrote about— which includes AutoCAD for students. We came up with a ranking system […]
Modeling a Car Tire in CATIA
You most probably know that tires play a major role in suspension of an automobile and diminish fuel consumption. And tires shapes varies according to the nature of the road. In this tutorial, we are going to do some modeling, and the object we will be modeling is a car tire. We are going to […]
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