Engineering Design Graphics: Sketching, Modeling, and Visualization, 2nd Edition

PREFACE

The traditional first-year engineering graphics course has undergone significant change in the past quarter century. Although the emergence of computer-aided design (CAD) and the expansion of the graphics curriculum to include design are perhaps the most significant developments, more recent trends include a movement away from 2D CAD and toward 3D parametric solid modeling, an increased emphasis on freehand sketching at the expense of instrument drawing, a greater focus on the development of spatial visualization skills, and an expansion of the curriculum to include the latest developments in design technology. All of this has occurred despite a strong countervailing trend to de-emphasize graphics in order to accommodate other material in the four-year undergraduate engineering curriculum.

The aim of this book, then, is to provide a clear, concise treatment of the essential topics included in a modern engineering design graphics course. Projection theory provides the instructional framework, and freehand sketching the means for learning the important graphical concepts at the core of this work. The book includes several hundred sketching problems, all serving to develop the student's ability to use sketching for ideation and communication, as well as a means to develop critical visualization skills. New to this second edition are the additions of 38 worksheets containing ...