A new educational program for effective use of cad / cae -group design project using cad

摘要

In this paper, we examined an educational method whereby students use CAD to consider the relationship between a drawing and an actual object. Students learn to transform a drawing into an actual object and vice versa ( i. e., visualizing a final product). Group design was conducted using a product on the market as the subject matter. The lectures and exercises were given to a limited group of students. They learned to use CAD effectively, given the specific instruction that it was important to have a clear goal and a distinct idea of the design process.