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The most accessible and practical roadmap to visualizing engineering projects
In the newly revised Third Edition of Engineering Design Graphics: Sketching, Modeling, and Visualization, renowned engineering graphics expert James Leake delivers an intuitive and accessible guide to bringing engineering concepts and projects to visual life. Including updated coverage of everything from freehand sketching to solid modeling in CAD, the author comprehensively discusses the tools and skills you'll need to sketch, draw, model, document, design, manufacture, or simulate a project.
List of contents
1 ENGINEERING DESIGN 1
INTRODUCTION 1
ASPECTS OF ENGINEERING DESIGN 1
ANALYSIS AND DESIGN 4
PRODUCT ANATOMY 5
DESIGN PHASES 5
DESIGN PROCESS OVERVIEW 6
NEEDS ASSESSMENT 7
PROBLEM DEFINITION 7
BACKGROUND RESEARCH 7
DESIGN CRITERIA 8
DESIGN CONSTRAINTS 8
ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS 9
ANALYSIS 12
EVALUATION AND SELECTION 12
SPECIFICATION 16
COMMUNICATION 20
Written Reports 20
Recommended report-writing steps 20
Oral Presentations 21
BEGINNING VERSUS INFORMED DESIGNER PATTERNS (SIDEBAR) 23
CONCURRENT ENGINEERING 23
Design for Manufacture and Assembly 25
TEAMWORK 26
QUESTIONS 27
2 HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN AND DESIGN THINKING 29
INTRODUCTION 29
ENGINEERING DESIGN, ART, AND SCIENCE
Introduction
Design: a fundamental human activity
Engineering Design from 1400 to 1900
Engineering Education after 1900
TWO DESIGN PARADIGMS
Design as rational problem solving
Design as a reflective practice
WICKED PROBLEMS
DIVERGENT AND CONVERGENT QUESTIONING
DOUBLE DIAMOND DESIGN PROCESS
HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN
DESIGN THINKING
Introduction
Three spaces of innovation
Inspiration
Observation
Empathy
Ideation
Empathy
Ideation
Brainstorming
Prototyping
Implementation
Test and iterate
T-shaped individuals (sidebar)
Radical collaboration
QUESTIONS
3 PRODUCT DISSECTION
INTRODUCTION
PRODUCT SUITABILITY
PRODUCT DISSECTION PROCEDURE
PRE-DISSECTION ANALYSIS
DISSECTION
Craftsman locking pliers disassembly steps
PRODUCT DOCUMENTATION
PRODUCT ANALYSIS
PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT
REASSEMBLY
COMMUNICATION
QUESTIONS
4 FREEHAND SKETCHING
INTRODUCTION
SKETCHING TOOLS AND MATERIALS
SKETCHING TECHNIQUES
Line Techniques
Sketching Straight Lines
Sketching Circles
Sketching Ellipses
PROPORTIONING
Estimating Dimensions of Actual Objects
Partitioning Lines
INSTRUMENT USAGE--TRIANGLES
Parallel Lines
Perpendicular Lines
LINE STYLES
QUESTIONS
5 PLANAR PROJECTIONS AND PICTORIAL VIEWS
PLANAR PROJECTIONS
Introduction
Classification of Planar Projections: Projector Characteristics
Preliminary Definitions
Block coefficient
Classification of Planar Projections: Orientation of Object with Respect to Projection Plane
Further Distinctions Between Parallel and Perspective Projections
Classes of Parallel Projections
OBLIQUE PROJECTIONS
Oblique Projection Geometry
Oblique Projection Angle
Classes of Oblique Projections
Oblique projection angle in 2D
Receding Axis Angle
ORTHOGRAPHIC PROJECTIONS
Orthographic Projection Geometry
Orthographic Projection Categories
AXONOMETRIC PROJECTIONS
ISOMETRIC PROJECTIONS
Isometric Drawings
Multiview Projections
INTRODUCTION TO PICTORIAL SKETCHING
OBLIQUE SKETCHES
Introduction
Axis Orientat
