Look To The Future Learn From Today
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© 2008 Autodesk
Look to the Future/Learn from Today
James M. Leake,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
© 2008 Autodesk
From state-of-the-art CAD design and drafting to the industry’s most progressive digital prototyping, Autodesk delivers a comprehensive suite of solutions to help you create, improve and refine your designs.
Portfolio of marketsManufacturing, AEC, Infrastructure
and Media
Global presence –160 countriesRevenue: $2+B40% Americas, 60% EMEA & APAC
Autodesk – Did You Know?
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“CAD is about building models of real-world objects inside the computer. I believe that in the fullness of time, every object in the world, manufacturing or not, will be modeled inside a computer.
That is a very big market. This is everything.”
- John Walker May 11, 1992
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Autodesk sees the future of engineering in integrated digital prototyping across product ideation, functional & aesthetic design, and production/construction disciplines.
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Pivotal Question
Can Autodesk help transform education to match its vision in more systematic manner?
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iFoundry: Change via Organizational Innovation Collaborative, interdepartmental pilot unit.
Volunteers.
Existing authority.
Respect faculty governance.
Scalability.
Open-source curriculum change.
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Overview
First-year concept design projects
First-year reverse engineering design projects
Upper division digital prototyping
Industrial Design - Engineering collaboration
Senior design
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How can technology be used to improve engineering education?
3D modeling
Essential reasoning skills – missing basics
Focus on product function
Digital prototyping
Collaborative design experience
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Mere Modeling – Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
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First–Year Design Project
• Reverse engineering• More representative of
engineering problem-solving• Address the missing basics• Focus on functionality
• Concept design• Good for developing
modeling skills• Not many constraints• Not representative of “real
world”
OLDNEW
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What Engineers Don’t Learn
Point of departure: Industrial based senior design. After 4 years they don’t know how to
Question: Socrates 101. Label: Aristotle 101. Model conceptually: Hume 101 & Aristotle 102. Decompose: Descartes 101. Measure: Bacon-Locke 101. Visualize/draw: da Vinci-Monge 101. Communicate: Newman 101
Call these the missing basics (MBs) vs. “the basics” = math, sci, & eng sci.
Missing basics are in some sense more basic than “the basics.”
MBs as quality failure. MBs as key to engineering in a creative era, interdisciplinarity & lifelong learning.
Socrates (470-399 BCE)
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Missing Basics
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Basic skills:• Model
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Basic skills:• Model (realism)•Decompose• Label
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Basic skills:• Model (realism)•Decompose• Label
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Basic skills:• Measure
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Basic skills:• Label• Research
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Basic skills:• Decompose• Label
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Basic skills:• Model (conceptual)
• Decompose (by function)• Question
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Basic skills:• Digital prototyping
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Product Functionality - Animations
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Digital Prototyping
Analysis FEA (Stress Analysis) Kinematics (Dynamic Simulation)
Mechanism design (Design Accelerators) ID, conceptual (Alias) Visualization (Inventor Studio, Showcase) 3D Printing 3D Scanning
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Analysis - FEA
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Analysis - Kinematic
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Mechanism Design
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Visualization
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Conceptual (Alias)
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3D Printing
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3D Scanning
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Industrial Design – Engineering Collaboration
Design
EngineeringArt
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Autodesk - iFoundry Partnership
Promote collaboration, develop curriculum
ID & engineerin
g
Autodesk gift
iFoundry
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Goals
Promote ID engineering collaboration
Gain experience using digital
prototyping tools for
•Modeling•Visualization & Animation•Upfront Analysis & Simulation•Scanning & Prototyping
Gain experience using NURBS to solid model
digital pipeline
Meta-goal – lay foundation for development of ID
Engineering curriculum
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Geometric Modeling
Integration
Parametric solid
modeling (Inventor)
NURBS Curves & surfaces (Alias)
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Bburago Car Project
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New VW
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Mini Cooper
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Old VW
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Lamborghini
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Nissan
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Jeep
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Alfa Romeo
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Bburago Car Project - Animations
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Senior Design – Food Processing Equipment
Sponsor manufactures food processing equipment
Sponsor uses 2D AutoCAD, intends to convert to Autodesk Inventor
Problem statement – use Inventor to automate design of a mixer blender
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Mixer/Blenders
Multiple (~8) subassemblies, ~300 parts, stainless steel
Capacities range from 100 to 15,000 lbs Site Constraints
Discharge height Overhang Open cover height
Customer Options
Standard Mixer/Blender
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Sketch
Parameters Window
Link Window
Section of Agitator Worksheet
Linking Parameters to Excel
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Senior Design - Modular Endcap
Problem Statement Develop a new and improved endcap display that
can be marketed to Tier I customers Design Criteria include: Innovative design Adjustable divider system Modular design Product sliding system Lean distribution
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Modular Endcap – Final Design
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Look to the Future/Learn from Today
James M. Leake,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaignjmleake@illinois.edu
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