Kategoria BISAC: Computers >> Design, Graphics & Media - CAD-CAM

"There is a global network of academics, researchers and methodologists who will buy this book or want it in their institute libraries.
Prof. John Harbraken

"As the field of human computer interaction grows, this book is likely to be a basic resource."
Prof. Chuck Eastman

Design representation is necessary for all design activity. You will gain a guide to both theory and practical application in this discussion of representation as it occurs during the process of design. Goldschmidt and Porter give you perspectives on representational issues in design that are both...

Das Buch wendet sich an die Spezialisten, Entwickler fur CAD-Anwendungen, sowie an Designer, Konstrukteure und Werkzeugbauer aus den Bereichen Automotive, Maschinenbau sowie Luft- und Raumfahrt, die bei ihren Produkten frei geformte Oberflachen gestalten. Es geht uber die Beschreibung grundlegender Fahigkeiten zur Bedienung von CAD-Systemen weit hinaus. Dazu werden mathematische Grundlagen gut verstandlich vermittelt und deren Einsatz in der Gestaltung, beim Straken der mehrfach gekrummten Flachen, beschrieben. Der CAD-Entwicklungsprozess von der Idee des Designers bis zum Werkzeug fur die...

Dieses Buch ist eine Gemeinschaftsarbeit des AutomationML-Konsortiums. Es gibt erstmalig einen umfassenden Uberblick uber AutomationML und seine Integration von CAEX, COLLADA und PLCopen XML. AutomationML versteht sich als wegweisender Beitrag zur Forderung der Interoperabilitat zwischen digitalen Werkzeugen fur alle Teilschritte des Engineering-Prozesses in der Anlagenplanung. Das Datenformat wurde im Fruhjahr 2008 auf der Hannovermesse der Offentlichkeit vorgestellt und hat bei Anwendern und Toolherstellern deutliches Aufsehen erregt. AutomationML ist das erste kostenfrei zugangliche,...

The Language of Design articulates the theory that there is a language of design. Drawing upon insights from computational language processing, the language of design is modeled computationally through latent semantic analysis (LSA), lexical chain analysis (LCA), and sentiment analysis (SA). The statistical co-occurrence of semantics (LSA), semantic relations (LCA), and semantic modifiers (SA) in design text is used to illustrate how the reality producing effect of language is itself an enactment of design, allowing a new understanding of the connections between creative behaviors. The...

This book describes the synthesis of logic functions using memories. It is useful to design field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) that contain both small-scale memories, called look-up tables (LUTs), and medium-scale memories, called embedded memories. This is a valuable reference for both FPGA system designers and CAD tool developers, concerned with logic synthesis for FPGAs.

Boundary representation is the principal solid modelling method used in modern CAD/CAM systems. There have been a long series of developments on which currently available systems are based, full details of which are only partially known. Ian Stroud s thorough coverage of these developments puts this technology in perspective. It includes:

• data structures
• algorithms and other related techniques including non-manifold modelling
• product modelling
• graphics
• disc files and data exchange
• some applications related topics....

Information is increasingly being generated, processed and used by machines today, even though the end user may be human. This book presents new ways of dealing with digital information and new types of digital information.

Human beings are designed by evolution to form meaningful interpersonal relationships through verbal and nonverbal communication. This principle is the same whether the individual is male or female; an infant, a child, an adolescent, or an adult; or healthy or sick. The theme that empathic human connections are beneficial to the body and mind underlies all 12 chapters of this book, in which empathy is viewed from a multidisciplinary perspective that includes evolution; neuropsychology; clinical, social, developmental, and educational psychology; and health care delivery and education. Some...

This book provides insight into the behavior and design of power distribution systems for high speed, high complexity integrated circuits. Also presented are criteria for estimating minimum required on-chip decoupling capacitance. Techniques and algorithms for computer-aided design of on-chip power distribution networks are also described; however, the emphasis is on developing circuit intuition and understanding the principles that govern the design and operation of power distribution systems.