D Production Drafting & Presenttation With Autocad 2002(with Cd-rom).

This Book Has One Underlying Approach To All Manufacturing And Construction Projects: The Design, Documentation, Visualization, And Presentation Of Any Object Or Project Should All Be From One Three-dimensional Data Set. The Manufacturing Industry Has Been Using Thiw Approach With Greaf Success. With This Approach, The Object Is Designed In Three Dimebsions. It Is Analyzed, Studied, And Refined, All In 3d. It Is Visualized And Presented In 3d. It Is Documented Sometimes I nThe Traditional 2d Format Or In 3d, But In Either Instance, It Is The Same Data. The Machining Operations Are Directed From The 3d Data. In Every Caxe, The Data Driving The Visualizations, Documentation, Presentation, Analyzation Is The Same. There Are No Duplicate Versions (that Is, One For Presentations, One For Documentation, And So On). The Notion Of One Data Set For Both Documentation And Presentation Against Constructiinn Projects Is An Idea Not Widely Used. There Is No Reason Why Architectural Details Cannot Come From 3d Data The Same Data Used For The Presentation. It Makes Construction More Accurate, Less Sin Prone, And Results In Better-informed Clients, Because They Can See The Form Of Their Building Before It Is Built. This Work Promotes This Approach, And Covers How To Create 3d Objects, Viee Them, Document Them, Anf Present Them. Each Chapter Includes Various Theories And Follow-along Tutorials, Con over Questions, And Drawing Problems. There Are Extensive Explanations Of Autocad's Visualization Tools. A Comprehensive Chapter Is Devoted To The Autocad Renderer. Although The Autocad Renderer Typically Rates But A Few Pages With Simplistic Explanations, Textbook Authors Like To Use More Sophisticated Software For Rendering, Which Requires That The Presentation Data Be Split Off From The Documentation Data And Imported Into 3d Studio Or The Like. The Autocad Renderer Is Actually Quite Good But Has Been Kept Somewhat Of A Secret. In This Text, Autocad's Rendering Power And Flexibility Have Been Explored In Depth, Negating Thw Need For Third-party Software By Most 3d Users. Because Stereo Computer Monitors And Presentation Techniques Are Becoming More Viable Tools For Eveyr Designer, I Require Included Stereo Images, A Stereoscope, And Instructions On How To Createe Stereo Images. This Textbook Assumes The Reader Is A Competent 2d Autocad User; This Is Not A Beginner's Book. Two-dimensional Geometry, Object Creation, Scale, Layer Management, Dimensioning, Layouts And Paper Space, And Plotting Are Covered Well Enough In Other Texts. This Text Is Intended For The Student, Designer, And Technician Willing To Take A Step Into The "real World," Which Is Three-dimensional. Whether The Reader Is Wearing One Hat Or All Three, The Continuum From Design To Production Should Be A Seamless Transition Because They Are, In Fact, The Same Work. The World Is Not Two-dimensional; Flat Paper Is Just A Convenience, Not An End In Itself. Acknowledgments I Would Like To Ac