Into 3D With form.Z - Softcover

Khemlani, Lachmi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070349339 ISBN 13: 9780070349339

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1999

Synopsis

Get up to speed on formoZ—the 3D modeling program of choice for architects and designers—with this first-of-its-kind, task-simplifying guide. Drawing on her several years of experience teaching formoZ workshops, author Lachmi Khemlani lets you bypass classroom instruction and lengthy software manuals, taking you step-by-step through the building blocks of formoZ. With an easy-to-follow workshop format that’s tailor-made for both engineers and intermediate users, this all-in-one resource shows you how to create a variety of 2D and 3D objects; transform objects by various means to achieve desired configurations; derive 3D objects from 2D shapes in a number of ways; conceptualize dimension and scale, and work at multiple topological levels; personalize the formoZ work environment by creating customized colors, layers, reference planes, views, and symbol libraries; achieve realistic lighting and rendering effects with multiple light types, radiosity-based rendering, texture mapping, and decals; and much more. Into 3D With formoZ : includes a detailed appendix that introduces users to the drafting module, which helps in converting 3D models to 2D prints. There’s also 400 how-to graphics, 32 pages of full-color illustrations, and a companion CD-ROM packed with full formoZ files for study and practice, plus a working demo of formoZ, release 3.0. It all adds up to the clearest, most complete look at formoZ you can get.

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About the Author

Khemlani is a professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a PhD from Berkeley, a Masters from Cambridge (UK) and a BA from the Indian Institute of Technology, all in architecture. She has written a number of papers on computer-aided design.

From the Back Cover

Get up to speed on form.Z--the 3D modeling program of choice for architects and designers--with this first-of-its-kind, task simplifying guide. Drawing on her several years of experience teaching form.Z workshops, author Lachmi Khemlani lets you bypass classroom instruction and lengthy software manuals, taking you step-by-step through the building blocks of form.Z.
With an easy-to-follow workshop format that's tailor-made for both engineers and intermediate users, this all-in-one resource shows you how to: create a variety of 2D and 3D objects, ranging from the primitive to the extremely sophisticated; transform objects by various means to achieve desired configurations, ranging from elementary moves to powerful operations such as booleans, insertions, attachments, and extensions; derive 3D objects from 2D shapes in a number of ways: simple extrusions, revolution, sweeping, skinning, projection, terrain modeling, and more; conceptualize dimension and scale, and work at multiple topological levels; personalize the form.Z work environment by creating customized colors, layers, reference planes, views, and symbol libraries; achieve realistic lighting and rendering effects with multiple light types, radiosity-based rendering, texture mapping, and decals; model organic forms with a wide range of mesh-related tools, including metaforms and image-based displacements; generate QuickTime VR movies of the form.Z modeling world.
3D Modeling using form.Z includes a detailed appendix that introduces users to the drafting module, which helps in converting 3D models to 2D prints. There are also 400 how-to graphics, 32 pages of full-color illustrations, and a companion CD-ROM packed with full form.Z files for study and practice, plus a working demo of form.Z. It all adds up to the clearest, most complete look at form.Z you can get.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070349339
• ISBN 13: 9780070349339
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304