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Engineering Design Communication: Conveying Design Through Graphics
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About Engineering Design Communication: Conveying Design
Product Description Engineering Design Communication is a new approach to the traditional engineering graphics course. The emphasis in the text reflects the changes that many schools are making to their graphics courses including the importance of sketching, 3D solid modeling, and the use of design databases throughout the engineering process. This text encourages readers to think about the broader context for their models so they plan for flexibility, downstream applications, and manufacture as they are learning to model. Gives readers a true foundation in graphic communication and the nature of visual information. Emphasizes sketching and visualization techniques throughout the text. Emphasizes solid and parametric modeling software as a means to building a design database. Fosters a real-world approach to engineering communication through the use of industry cases that profile practice in major corporation. Show how design goals influence the way models are made. Presents a wide variety of software and presentation tools. Prepares readers for the concurrent engineering environment where they must present ideas and work with non-technical personnel. Illustrates each technique with real examples of how it may be used so that readers can use it effectively in future studies and in the workplace. Prepares readers to evaluate and adopt new graphics tools as they are developed. Tutorial guides teach readers how to use a variety of solid and parametric modeling packages from a proven step-by-step approach used in other Lockhart tutorial guides. Step-by-step guides follow the organization of the text. For anyone interested in engineering graphics. From the Inside Flap Preface Rationale Engineering Design Communication is a new approach to the traditional foundation course in engineering graphics. We believe that the role of the CAD database as the hub of the concurrent engineering environment has implications for the way engineering graphics is taught. In the concurrent environment, engineers are expected to communicate effectively with customers as well as other technical personnel and to prepare the CAD database so it will be useful for analysis, manufacturing, and presentation purposes. New software tools, especially solid and parametric modeling software, have changed the way engineers create drawings. These packages automate much of the work of creating drawing views and offer functions that make it easier to modify and refine a solid model. They also offer many options for viewing the model and exporting it for use in other applications. These software developments have shifted the rationale for CAD modeling from the creation of documentation drawings to the creation of multipurpose models for design visualization and communication. At the same time, the ability of parametric models to capture the design intent for the part or assembly in its geometric relationships puts an added burden on the beginning student to grasp the bigger picture of the design process in order to use these tools effectively. Approach Engineering Design Communication addresses this shift in two ways. First, it presents the CAD file as a database of design information that is developed over time. The use of solid and parametric modeling software makes it possible to follow the design process through the course students first learn to sketch their ideas, to transform 2D sketches into 3D models, to refine the models and use them for analysis, and finally to use the models to document the design. This organization more closely reflects industry practice and gives students a strong framework for understanding why they should learn to sketch, when it is appropriate to use different kinds of models, and what they need to discover in order to prepare a model for manufacture. Second, it introduces topics that will help students learn to reflect design intent in their models. Building effective models that will update correctly require
