3D Production Drafting & Presentation with AutoCAD 2002(Book & CD-ROM) - Softcover

Miller, Fitzhugh L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 013026170X ISBN 13: 9780130261700

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2002

Synopsis

Written for designers familiar with 2D AutoCAD, this text explains how to create a true representation of an object in three dimensions that allows viewing from a variety of directions and the reuse of a singular data set. Each chapter reviews the theory behind a tool before walking through the sequence of AutoCAD commands. The CD-ROM contains partially complete drawings. The 3D glasses are for viewing stereoscopic images. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

From the Back Cover

3D Production Drafting and Presentation with AutoCAD® 2002 presents information on using one 3D data set to accomplish multiple tasks—the design, documentation, visualization, and presentation of an object. This approach is supported by both theory and step-by-step commands for using AutoCAD®. Numerous examples and sample drawings provide a practical context and visual support for the main concepts of the text.

Other features of the text include:

• Numerous illustrations and screen captures
• Chapter summaries
• Review questions and drawing exercises
• A CD-ROM of drawing activities
• Information on producing stereoscopic images and 3D glasses for viewing those images.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

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 this approach with great success. With this approach, the object is designed in three dimensions. It is analyzed, studied, and refined, all in 3D. It is visualized and presented in 3D. It is documented sometimes in the traditional 2D format or in 3D, but in either case, it is the same data. The machining operations are directed from the 3D data. In every case, 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 for construction 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 error prone, and results in better-informed clients, because they can see the form of their building before it is built.

This book promotes this approach, and covers how to create 3D objects, view them, document them, and present them. Each chapter includes various theories and follow-along tutorials, study 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 really 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 the need for third-party software by most 3D users.

Because stereo computer monitors and presentation techniques are becoming more viable tools for every designer, I have included stereo images, a stereoscope, and instructions on how to create 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 acknowledge the reviewers of this text: Joseph Cirone, Oakton Community College (IL); Mark J. Clayton, Texas A & M University; Joe Kotowski, Oakton Community College (IL); and Mark Schwendau, Kishwaukee College (IL).

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 013026170X
• ISBN 13: 9780130261700
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352