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Computer Aided Design
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Computer Aided Design

by Wilson R Nyemba
December 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
314 pages
8h 29m
English
CRC Press
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Chapter 6 Orthographic and isometric projections

DOI: 10.1201/9781003288626-6

6.1 Introduction

There are many ways in which objects in real life can be modelled and represented. Modelling is a word like design, which is used rather loosely, in everyday language, ranging from components or parts of machines to the construction of scale models that represent real objects. Modelling can be a much more formal activity when a scientist, engineer or architect wishes to explore the nature of some physical process or understand how to construct or operate some physical object or system (Norman et al., 1990). A model is thus a substitute or representation of the real object, hence the importance of doing it properly in order to maintain its real-life ...

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