Solid Modeling With I-Deas

Solid Modeling with I-DEAS, Second Edition by Sheryl Sorby teaches students how to use I-DEAS as a powerful tool for design. It takes a true 3-D approach emphasizing how modeling is inherently different from 2-D CAD. Beginning with a brief introduction to the design process in the context of concurrent engineering, this text proceeds to cover topics such as the I-DEAS work environment, file management, sketching, revolution, applying and modeling 3-D constraints, features and feature-based modeling, lofting, sweeping, and extracting data from 3-D models. Sorby encourages students "to learn by doing." Each chapter includes a set of "Guided Tours" that walk students through features of I-DEAS. Chapters conclude with an ample number of drawing problems. Solid Modeling with I-DEAS, Second Edition can be used on its own, as a complement to 3-D Visualization for Engineering Graphics by Sheryl Sorby, Kim Manner, and Beverly Baartmans (?2000, ISBN 0-13-191602-5), or any other general graphics text available. Also available from Sheryl Sorby Solid Modeling with Pro/ENGINEER (?2000, ISBN 0-13-490178-9).Sorby, Sheryl A. is the author of 'Solid Modeling With I-Deas', published 2003 under ISBN 9780131008557 and ISBN 0131008552.