HTCM: Hack your CAD models!

Helga Tauscher

Unterrichtssprache: Englisch

Credit Points: 1 CP nach Absprache mit der Dozentin

Kursbeschreibung:

Parametric feature-based 3D-models are the base for current CAD systems used in mechanical and civil engineering as well as in architecture and other disciplines. An example is FreeCAD, an OpenSource-CAD-application with functionality similar to commercial programs such as CATIA, SolidWorks or Solid Edge. In addition to the creation of models, FreeCAD also allows for analysis (e.g. FEM), simulation and rendering. It can be extended through scripts in Python or plugins in C++.

The participants will model a parametric object for 3D-printing. Along the process, they get to know typical CAD functionality used in a practical example, and beyond that learn about the theoretical foundations of CAD-modelling, the various modelling paradigms, the underlying data models and some algorithmic principles. They come to know how to use Python scripts in order to analyse CAD models and automate modelling tasks.

Finally we are going to prepare the model for 3D print.

Voraussetzungen:

Eine der folgenden Voraussetzungen sollte erfüllt sein:

• Grundkenntnisse im Bereich Konstruktion oder technisches Zeichnen (Profil: Konstrukteur/in)
• Grundkenntnisse in einer objektorientierten Programmiersprache (Profil: Informatiker/in)

• Kenntnisse in Python sind von Vorteil, aber keine Voraussetzung.
• Kenntnisse in einem 2D- oder 3D-CAD-System oder einer 3D-Modellierungssoftware sind von Vorteil, aber keine Voraussetzung.

Biographie: Helga Tauscher

Helga Tauscher has studied architecture at Dresden University of Applied Science, as well as at weißensee academy of art Berlin and received her PhD in construction informatics from TU Dresden. She worked as a CAD/CAFM-expert in the elevator industry, as software developer for internet-based construction project management, as a researcher, lecturer and substitute professor in Kaiserslautern, Singapore and Weimar. She holds a professorship for computing in engineering at HTW Berlin. Her research interests revolve around graph-based model integration for data in the AEC (architecture, engineering and construction) industry, domain-specific languages and opensource software development.