MacCAD (Macintosh Computer Aided Design), Computer Aided Design Tool for System Analysis.

Abstract

MacCAD, a computer aided design program, was developed as an analysis tool of continuous, linear control systems for the graduate level Controls or Electrical Engineering student. A variety of programs are presently available for the IBM-PC and the IBM Mainframe. MacCAD is written in Pascal and operates on the Apple Macintosh. It was developed in order to meet the need for a powerful yet simple to use program with high quality graphics and multiple window capabilities. It offers a highly flexible block manipulator capable of handling virtually unlimited blocks and loops, along with the standard analysis tools, Bode, Nyguist, Root Locus and Time response plots. Mouse and menu driven, it offers user defined plotting and calculation parameters which include multiple plot overlapping and linear or logarithmic plot point intervals. Keywords: Control systems, Linear systems, Computer aided design, Graphic analysis, Theses.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA189241

Entities

People

  • Kenneth Macdonald

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Closed Loop Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computers
  • Control Panels
  • Control Systems
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Fire Control Systems
  • Graphics
  • Keyboards
  • Linear Systems
  • Operating Systems
  • Printing
  • United States
  • United States Naval Academy
  • Word Processors

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Control Systems Engineering.