Concurrent Coplanar and Non-planar Structural Analysis Using 3D CAD
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of 3D CAD in dealing with the concurrent coplanar and non-coplanar structural analysis. Several problems were solved using both 3D CAD and traditional approaches. The traditional approach in descriptive geometry requires manual construction of vector polygons. The 3D CAD approach, which utilizes the same geometric and spatial reasoning, requires constrained wireframes and extruded solids as the tools for analysis. The comparison of these two different approaches was made. It proved that 3D CAD approach did demonstrate (1) the high performance in speed and accuracy and (2) the effectiveness in examining the design alternatives.
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