Synopses & Reviews
In this book the author has fulfilled the need for a descriptive geometry textbook in which the fundamentals are presented in the same pedagogically sound units of work, as they are usually introduced in daily presentation.
Table of Contents
1. Orthographic Projection.
2. Primary Auxiliary Views.
3. Lines.
4. Planes.
5. Successive Auxiliary Views.
6. Piercing Points.
7. Intersection of Planes.
8. Angle Between Planes.
9. Parallelism.
10. Perpendicularity.
11. Angle Between Line and Oblique Plane.
12. Mining and Civil Engineering Problems.
13. Revolution.
14. Vectors.
15. Plane Tangencies.
16. Intersections of Planes with Solids.
17. Developments.
18. Intersections of Surfaces.
19. Shades and Shadows.
20. Perspective Projection.
21. Conics.
22. Map Projection.
23. Spherical Triangles.
24. Review.
25. Computer Graphics Projects.
Appendix A: Graphical Accuracy.
Appendix B: Geometric Constructions.
Appendix C: Classification of Geometric Forms.
Appendix D: Solutions of Self-Testing Problems.
Index.