Sunday, February 2, 2014

Reading_Response_002 - Design_Development_Environment

Different from other design programs, Digital Project supplies more and deep detailed design possibilities to the users to conduct precise design. It's associated with actual objects and assemblies. The prelude for the designers whoever wish to enjoy this program to conduct design process is to fully understand the envisaged design before set out developing it. This article discussed about the surfaces modeling. From simple surface to complex surface, and also the main characteristics of the surface (curvature...) and how to manipulate with it.

The curved surfaces are solid, techniques are introduced to convert complex surfaces into solid objects (for example like thickening..). Understanding surface curvature is crucial, complex surfaces are always generated from the simple ones. Simple surfaces are based on conic sections. Ruled surface is any surface that can be generated by the translation or rotation of straight lines. Many ruled surfaces (not all) are developable surfaces, it's important to the manufacturing process.

In CITIA computing environment, basic modeling techniques are applicable to the complex parametrically defined cures, any point the shape of the curve can be defined in terms of an "instantaneous radius" defined as R and an associated curvature defined as 1/R. Some commands were introduced in this article about how to extending and knitting surfaces. The mathematical description of the surface inclination is obtained through the derivation of the equation that describes the surface geometry.

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