Shows how any designer can increase his or her repertoire of design tools by using CAD as an alternative to traditional drafting and design. Describes the latest applications of computer-aided-design (CAD) using microcomputers -- even shows how to customize professional CAD programs. Introduces architectural programming, symbolic programming with LISP, and employs versatile, attractive graphics. Provides a structured overview of CAD applications to line drawings, tracing, sketching, and scaling; generation of plans, sections, elevations, axonometrics, and perspectives; and manipulation of designs by means of transformations, repetition, and extrusions. Contains graphic and programming examples of the machine's and programs' capabilities.
- ISBN10 0471622648
- ISBN13 9780471622642
- Publish Date 1 January 1989
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 November 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Language English