Book Description
This text is suitable for an introduction to CAD/CAM taught in departments of mechanical engineering. The book combines a good balance of the three main ingredients of CAD/CAM: computer science, engineering design and applications, and industrial implementations and technology. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Good geometry and modeling theory
This book covers geometry theory for modeling lines, curves, surfaces and solids.

The book does not cover the programming theory.

OUTDATED!!!
This book is extremely outdated. It was a required text for one of my classes, and I just sold it back because there is almost no useful information that is still valid. Many, many pages of this text are wastedon technology that is no longer used.

Good theoretical basis of CAD/CAM
This book has a good theory and some examples to begin in the knowledge of CAD & CAM systems construction and understand. At least, a student interested in CAD/CAM systemwill find the basis of geometric representation, and how to construct some graphics routines to CAD/CAM System ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Tooling & Production, published by Nelson Publishing on January 1, 1994. The length of the article is 539 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Mindbridge Systems Inc's Realtrac Div has improved its Realtrack software for real-time shop floor control. Pictures are added to the software's job documentation capability, enabling machinists to capture the job setup on video and download the images into the PC-based Realtrac permanent job file. Realtrack is also equipped with a voice function which captures the machinist's verbal descriptions of the setup and includes them into the job file permanently. Realtrack's added features make the software an ideal tool for every machinist requiring floor-to-floor capabilities.

Citation Details
Title: Video pictures, CAD illustrate job setups. (Mindbridge Systems Inc. Realtrac Div.'s computer-aided design Realtrac software) (Manufacturing Solutions)
Publication: Tooling & Production (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 1994
Publisher: Nelson Publishing
Volume: v59Issue: n10Page: p64(2)

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Book Description
A Commands Guide Tutorial for SolidWorks is written to assistthe beginner to intermediate user of SolidWorks® 2007. The book provides acentralized reference location to address many of the System and Documentproperties, FeatureManagers, PropertyManagers, ConfigurationManagers, andRenderManagers along with 2D and 3D Sketch tools, Sketch entities, and 3DFeature tools in SolidWorks.

Each chapter provides detailed PropertyManager information on key topicswith individual stand- alone short tutorials to reinforce and demonstratethe functionality and ease of the SolidWorks tool or feature. All modelsfor the 200+ tutorials are provided on the enclosed book CD, along withtheir solutions.

As you use this book, you will formulate the skills to create, modifyand edit sketches and solid features. You will also learn the techniques toreuse features, parts and assemblies through symmetry, patterns, copiedcomponents, design tables, and configurations.

The Table of Contents includes the following: Introduction; 1. QuickStart; 2. System Options; 3. Document Properties; 4. Sketching and SketchEntities; 5. Sketch Tools, Geometric Relations, and Dimensions/RelationsTools; 6. Extruded Boss, Extruded Cut, and Fillet Features; 7. Revolved,Hole, and Dome Features; 8. Shell, Draft, and Rib Features; 9. Pattern andMirror Features; 10. Sweep and Loft Features; 11. Bottom up AssemblyModeling; 12. Top-Down Assembly Modeling; 13. Drawings and eDrawings; 14.Sheet Metal and COSMOSXpress; 15. PhotoWorks; Appendix; Index. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (7)

Just o.k.
Hmmm. When I bought this book, I thought it would have been more extensive and give more examples even though it's a relatively big book already. It's similar to the SW Help that comes with the software, but in a handy book form for reference. Still, there is no substitute for the tutorial books that Solidworks produces ( if you can find them on ebay or elsewhere ) or afford to take a SW class.

A great reference book
I purchased this reference book a few weeks ago. This is the second book that I purchased for these authors. I've been using SolidWorks for approximately three months. Before SolidWorks, I was using Pro/E for three long and dreadful years.

The book is a gem. It is a great reference book targeted towards the beginner to intermediate user. It provides a wealth of information on sketching; 2D and 3D, standard and advance features, drawings, assemblies, and more.

After each feature or tool, the author provides an illustration of the PropertyManager, and a tutorial to practice what you learned. The enclosed CD provides the initial and final models for all of the tutorials. This is a great book for anyone that is looking to learn, explore, and try new features and options.

Very good book!
Informative and easy to follow. Still, there are some fields which could be better covered.

The SW Reference book to have!
This is a great SolidWorks Reference book. The text is clear and very easy to follow. Illustrations are provided for key PropertyManagers with standard and advance options addressed. Over 200 embedded tutorials are supplied on an enclosed CD which provides sample problems in each section and category. The CD provides the before and after models. The tutorials are great if you just want to address and explore the options in a quick and efficient manner. If you are just learning SolidWorks, I would recommend the Planchard's Engineering Design with SolidWorks book first. The Commands Guide isa must reference book to have at your desk when using SolidWorks.

A to Z: A Great Command Tutorial
New to Solidworks, I purchased the latest release of the "Professional" package in October 2006.I took a 12 Sat. course at a local community college to get a feel for the features and learn how to use this very powerful 3-D CAD software.The Planchard's have compiled an extremely detailed list of SW commands.The manual includes a CD disc containing many practical exercises that thoroughly illustrate the command application and its menu picks.The text is very clear and easy to understand - even for the novice, but the content is even useful for the experienced user.A "must-have" for any serious SW user's library. ... Read more

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Throughout the 1940s, Zachary Scott (1914-1965) was the model for sophisticated, debonair villains in American film. His best-known roles include a mysterious criminal in The Mask of Dimitrios and the indolent husband of Mildred Pierce. He garnered further acclaim for his portrayal of villains in Her Kind of Man, Danger Signal, and South of St. Louis. Although he earnedcritical praise for his performance as a heroic tenant farmer in Jean Renoir's The Southerner, Scott never quite escaped typecasting.

In Zachary Scott: Hollywood's Sophisticated Cad, Ronald L. Davis writes an appealing biography of the film star.Scott grew up in privileged circumstances—his father was a distinguished physician; his grandfather was a pioneer cattle baron—and was expected to follow his father into medical practice. Instead, Scott began to pursue a career in theater while studying at the University of Texas and subsequently worked his way on a ship to England to pursue acting. Upon his return to America, he began to look for work in New York.

Excelling on stage and screen throughout the 1940s, Scott seemed destined for stardom.By the end of 1950, however, he had suffered through a turbulent divorce. A rafting accident left him badly shaken and clinically depressed. His frustration over his roles mounted, and he began to drink heavily. He remarried and spent the rest of his career concentrating on stage and television work. Although Scott continued to perform occasionally in films, he never reclaimed the level of stardom that he had in the mid-1940s.

To reconstruct Scott's life, Davis uses interviews with Scott and colleagues, reviews, articles, and archival correspondence from the Scott papers at the University of Texas and from the Warner Brothers Archives.The result is a portrait of a talented actor who was rarely allowed to show his versatility on the screen. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (5)

Great Scott
Ronald Davis wrote a previous book about Van Johnson, the still living star of the boy next door type whose sexuality was much whispered about in the 1940s.But, as Davis says of himself, as an author he's no scandalmonger, so much of what makes Van Johnson interesting was absent from Davis' biography, and I imagine Zachary Scott was more interesting than the dapper cipher presented here.

Obviously something went wrong at every stage of Scott's life, though his parents never let him down and supported him financially through his last days.He failed to become a topflight Hollywood star, even though he wentWest at a time when, as Van Johnson discovered too, the war, the draft and simple patriotism had emptied the movie capital of nearly all male competition, and the studios were in dire need of leading men.(Davis theorizes that Zach's dad, a well connected Texas doctor, may have pulled some strings and had his son released from the ordinary citizen's responsibilities).Scott's first marriage collapsed when his life left him for John Steinbeck, and his second marriage was an extraordinary pileup of Gothic egos.Add two "daughters" to the pack (one who Davis interviewed and who winds up coming off as sincere and stable, the other who eluded him who gets the demon treatment), a drinking problem shared by nearly everyone else in the book, and a suspect earring borne steadily in his ear as a defiant badge of "pirate" sexuality, and you've got a recipe for disaster.Yet he did make A MASK FOR DIMITRIOS, MILDRED PIERCE, RUTHLESS, THE YOUNG ONE, THE SOUTHERNER, and (on stage) he played Gavin Stevens in Faulkner's REQUIEM FOR A NUN in London and New York, so who knows, there are grounds for a fullscale Zachary Scott revival.I don't know if Ronald Davis really likes him though.

Physically, the book itself is printed on ultra creamy paper (though I kept hoping for a photo of Scott's sister and or children, in fact there weren't enough photos in general or what there were aren't well chosen.)If I had to die and come back as a book I hope it would be one as sturdy, elegant and pleasing as one of these "Hollywood Legends Series" from the University Press of Mississippi.

Must have if you are a fan of the 40's!
This is a very informative book if you like Zachary Scott.Very detailed about his life growing up and his desire to be a stage actor and movie star.His family life growing up, his closeness to his mother, his marriages, and the making of movies is very interesting.If you love Mr. Scott, as I do, and have seen his movies, this is a must have!

A Very Suave, Sophisticated Movie Star
Zachary Scott, what more can I say! A beautiful man, a great actor and one of the five top "film noir" actors in my opinion. Unfortunately, he was "tagged" as a villain in most of his films. He has a most interesting background coming from a very well to-do family, but fortunately for his fans he chose to become a movie star. A very good book if you want to get to know Zachary Scott, and I did!

Half the story is better than none...I suppose.
Zachary Scott was not famous enough an actor to warrant more than one biography. Davis had complete access to Scott's family and friends and to archival material never before tapped.He supplies much factual information previously unknown to the general public.But Davis refuses to face head on Scott's alcoholism and homosexuality.He pussyfoots around these issues oh so gingerly, so genteelly that the reader can only guess how these aspects of Scott's personal life contributed to his one-dimensionality as an actor. Davis blames studio bosses for stereotyping Scott in his film roles, but surely Scott himself was at least partially to blame. Scott's failure to deal with his personal demons no doubt contributed to the limitations in his performances. Sadly, Davis allows Scott to continue in this charade. The result is a biography with little psychological depth.And because Scott is a minor figure in film history, it's not likely that a more probing biography will ever see print. This same problem mars Davis's earlier biography of Van Johnson.However, Johnson is still alive and may yet write an autobiography.Unfortunately, in Scott's case--the books are closed.

A Forgotten Leading Man
I have always been curious about what happened to Zachary Scott - he just seemed to disappear after several years as a leading man.This biography was very informative about his life,albeit, a little slow in the childhood and beginnings but it picked up nicely.It was interesting to know that he came from a very prominent and wealthy family in Texas.His personal life was chronicled in a thorough way and I felt the book was very much worth reading.I bought it and put in my library of Hollywood memorabilia and history. ... Read more

Book Description
This self-directed MicroStation V8 2D Level 2 Training Manual builds on the basic techniques covered in the MicroStation Lab Manual 2D Level 1. Users are introduced to the higher level functions of MicroStation in clear, step-by-step instructions and exercises. The modules guide the user in a logical numbered step-by-step progression through the information. This manual assumes the user has successfully completed the Level 1 Manual (or equivalent) and is ready to work with the more complex, but equally important, MicroStation functions. A full table of contents can be found on the publishers web site.

The MicroStation V8 3D Level 2 Training Manual is the second book in a three-book series that breaks MicroStation instruction into manageable and logical training courses ideal for individuals, colleges, and training companies.

The manual is written to reflect the many improvements and additions of the V8 version, and contains over 500 drawings and illustrations. Emphasis is placed on MicroStation's important AccuDraw function, all sizes are given in English and metric measure, and the manual has been extensively tested in classrooms and distance-education courses. The manual is continuously edited and updated to provide the latest information. ... Read more

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In VLSI CAD, difficult optimization problems have to be solvedon a constant basis. Various optimization techniques have beenproposed in the past. While some of these methods have been shown towork well in applications and have become somewhat established overthe years, other techniques have been ignored.
Recently, there has been a growing interest in optimization algorithmsbased on principles observed in nature, termed Evolutionary Algorithms(EAs).
Evolutionary Algorithms in VLSI CAD presents the basic conceptsof EAs, and considers the application of EAs in VLSI CAD. It is thefirst book to show how EAs could be used to improve IC design toolsand processes. Several successful applications from different areas ofcircuit design, like logic synthesis, mapping and testing, aredescribed in detail.
Evolutionary Algorithms in VLSI CAD consists of two parts. Thefirst part discusses basic principles of EAs and provides someeasy-to-understand examples. Furthermore, a theoretical model formulti-objective optimization is presented. In the second part asoftware implementation of EAs is supplied together with detaileddescriptions of several EA applications. These applications cover awide range of VLSI CAD, and different methods for using EAs aredescribed.
Evolutionary Algorithms in VLSI CAD is intended for CADdevelopers and researchers as well as those working in evolutionaryalgorithms and techniques supporting modern design tools andprocesses. ... Read more

Book Description
A natty little compendium of dandies through the ages, with meditations on dandyism’s key tenets, related arts, and unique outlook on all aspects of life, dress, deportment, style, drinking, gambling, ennui, idleness, extravagance, wit, hedonism, and oh so much more. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Be a Dandy...or Just Look Like One!
This is a charming little book, the only fault of which is that it leaves one wishing for more.The dashing writing style and the author's light touch are well-suited to the subject, interspersing biographies of dandies, witty (of course!) quotes by famous dandies, examinations of various aspects of dandyism, and little scenes between two fictitious dandies. It is so evocative of the spirit of dandyism that I, who am in many ways the opposite of a dandy, began wishing that I were a little more like the historic and fictional bon vivants that inhabit its pages. My only criticism is that photographs are sometimes a little misplaced in the text, so that you are reading about Thomas Wainewright and looking at Benjamin Disraeli, but this is infrequent, and is a very small flaw in a gem of a book. ... Read more

Book Description
Computer aided design (CAD) emerged in the 1960s out of the growing acceptance of the use of the computer as a design tool for complex systems. As computers have become faster and less expensive while handling an increasing amount of information, their use in machine design has spread from large industrial needs to the small designer. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

CADS #2 Tech Battleground
Tech Battleground is a great read. I was especially suprised by the beginning of the book,and the realities of nuclear war. However,I think the technology used is quite cutting edge. I wonder if John Sievert has the inside scoop on high tech exoskeletons,or equipment.

"ITS THE BEST THING SINCE SLICED BREAD"
WIETHER YOUR INTERESTED IN SCI-FI OR ACTION THIS IS THE BOOK TO READ. IT IS JUST SO INCREDIBLE WORDS CANNOT EXPLANE IT YOU JUST HAVE TO READ IT.

Series started out great...
Having read through the series (up thru #9) back before the 90's started, I really enjoyed the high-tech aspects. The series started out with great hope in a post nuclear engagement, but got real murky, with 'realistic'problems you just can't have to have a series survive, ie;broken parts,modifactions required with no manufacturing available. I must admit, itsnot a HOT as Out of the Ashes, but I enjoyed them, none the less. JohnSievert, what ever happened to you?, let us know ... Read more

Book Description
Systems to support the continuously shrinking product development cycles and the increasing quality requirements need significant enhancements and new approaches.
In this book important new tools and algorithms for future product modeling systems are presented. It is based on a seminar at the International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science, Schloß Dagstuhl, Germany, presented by internationally recognised experts in CAD technology. ... Read more

Book Description
This fully updated edition of Practical Problems in Mathematics for Drafting and CAD features contemporary drafting problems, CAD drawings, and industry applications and practices-essential information designed to enhance the math skills of students concentrating their studies in the field of drafting.A comprehensive compilation of integrated math problems and CAD operations facilitates critical thinking, problem solving, and basic mathematics literacy.Real-world, everyday applications include use of a scientific calculator to solve math problems in drafting and CAD.Examples and figures cover a range of skills and levels of difficulty, and math principles provide a challenge for a variety of ability levels. ... Read more

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Around the world, the need for highly trained scientists and technicians remains high, especially for positions that require employees to have a college degree and skills in math, science, and technology. The pipeline into these jobs begins in high school, but many "leaks" occur before young people reach the highly educated workforce needed to sustain leadership in science and technology. Students drop out of the educational pipeline in science and technology at alarming rates at each educational transition beginning in high school, but women and ethnic minority youth drop out at a faster rate. Women and minorities are consistently underrepresented in science and engineering courses and majors. They account for a small portion of the work force in high-paying and more innovative jobs that require advanced degrees.

This schism between the skills necessary in our ever-changing economy and the skill set that most young adults acquire is troubling. It leads us to ask the question that forms the basis for this issue: Why are adolescents and young adults, particularly women and minorities, opting out of the math, science, and technology pipeline? The volume addresses gender and ethnic differences in the math, science, and technology pipeline from multiple approaches, including theoretical perspectives, a review of the work in this field, presentation of findings from four longitudinal studies, and a discussion of research implications given the current educational and economic climate.

This is the 110th issue of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. ... Read more