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This new edition has been thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect the state-of-the-practice of CAD/CAM/CAE systems.;Maintaining and enhancing the style of presentation of the first edition, CAD/CAM/CAE Systems (second edition) aims to provide a broad, solid understanding of each critical issue involved with the implementation and evaluation of systems; gives industry tested cost justification models to assess the feasibility of purchasing or leasing a system; supplies step-by-step explanations of every aspect of implementation, from initial facility planning to long-term maintenance; shows how to prepare personnel for a new system, including job skills, training stages, organization, and adminstration; illustrates a complete system audit, including five important approaches to determining overall success, six areas that can be judged separately, the dangers of benchmarking, and a two-year follow-up study; and more.;Furnishing the most up-to-date methods, CAD/CAM/CAE Systems, Second edition offers new features such as: a study of the proliferation of personal computers and their role in organizations; a discussion of the benefits and drawbacks of value added remarketers as an alternative to purchasing from conventional CAD/CAM companies; an examination of the cost-effectiveness of third party service organizations; and more. CAD/CAM/CAE Systems is intended as a guide for software, hardware, mechanical, manufacturing, industrial, and design engineers; draftspersons; managers; purchasing agents, acquisition personnel, and company officers responsible for deciding on CAD/CAM/CAE system implementation or augmentation; and graduate-level and continuing-education students in these disciplines. ... Read more

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CAD/CAE Descriptive Geometry provides a sound foundation in the fundamentals of plane geometry (mathematics), orthographic projection (technical drawing), and high-speed communication methods (digital computing). The material presented in this textbook is based on the premise that readers have access to IBM PC or PS/2 compatible workstations running AutoDesk software. The chapters cover the basic geometry topic in detail using the CAD workstation. The book is an excellent industry and institutional reference, as well as a student text. ... Read more

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Makes a good monitor stand
The C code samples are poorly written.The author uses only global variables (poor coding practice).The variables don't have readable names and the typeface of the code samples makes 1 and l indistinguishable (andboth x1 and xl are variable names).

On a positive side, some algorithmsare included which are not usually in a book of this type, such as mirrorreflections. ... Read more

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The author explains the benefits that can be gained from computer-aided design and manufacture (CAD/CAM) by companies engaged in activities ranging through the whole spectrum of design and manufacture in clothing and textiles. The book guides companies through the challenges of assessing requirements and estimating the short- and long-term costs of investment and provides a time- and cost-saving do-it-yourself checklist to key steps in the process. Emphasizing the importance of an integrated approach to CAD/CAM within a broader IT strategy, the author demonstrates how the whole chain of supply from design to sales outlet can be made more efficient and better targeted through more effectively networked information management, and positions of CAD/CAM in the context of other IT systems. The book also includes a listing of suppliers and systems, advice on human resource and training issues, tips on maintenance and a look at future developments. ... Read more

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Design is at least as much a process of discovery as it is a purposeful manipulation of facts into a contemplated solution. Although the aspect of design which involves discovery can perhaps never be fully automated, we can expect to build systems to aid or to automate various problem solving aspects of design. The concept of an intelligent CAD system as the computer side of an effective human-computer team working on a design problem is by now well established. Such a team should relieve human designers from the routine and more mundane tasks encountered in the course of a design, allowing them to concentrate on more creative aspects. A conventional CAD system merely documents the outcome of a design, while an intelligent CAD system makes a meaningful contribution to the actual progress of a design. This volume contains the results of the IFIP workshop on intelligent CAD. Included are reports from the chairpersons of the three subgroups and plenary sessions, invited papers, and papers selected from contributions. The selected papers were first reviewed by the program committee and chairpersons and then revised based on their comments.Together with the proceedings from the previous two workshops, this volume contains an exhaustive documentation of the development of intelligent CAD. ... Read more

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This book sets out the fundamental elements of the theory of computational geometry and computer-aided design in a mathematically rigorous manner.Splines and Bézier curves are first tackled, leading to Bézier surfaces, triangulation, and box splines.The final chapter is devoted to algebraic geometry and provides a firm theoretical basis for anyone wishing to seriously develop and investigate CAD systems. ... Read more

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Until now, books on CAD aimed at architects have addressed the use of computer-aided design and drafting as a recording tool, a faster means of producing and storing finished working drawings-and not as an adjunctive creative tool for the design process. Without being software specific, this book will guide the professional and student architect and graphics designer in how to use the computer as an electronic modelling tool, exploring graphic and geometric forms and systems with the freedom and speed of the computer. The reader will be led through a progression of design exercises and design problems, learning how to come up with multiple solutions to a given program. Beautifully illustrated throughout, including 10 four-color CAD drawings! ... Read more

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Designed as a useful, non-intimidating companion covering both management and technical issues, this is a book that no A/E firm should be without. It covers a wide range of topics pertaining to CAD, from CAD management to disaster handling, with illustrations throughout.

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Throughout the 1940s, Zachary Scott (1914–1965) was the model for sophisticated, debonair villains in American film. His best-known roles include a mysterious criminal in The Mask of Dimitrios and the indolent husband of Mildred Pierce. He garnered further acclaim for his portrayal of villains in Her Kind of Man, Danger Signal, and South of St. Louis. Although he earnedcritical praise for his performance as a heroic tenant farmer in Jean Renoir’s The Southerner, Scott never quite escaped typecasting.

In Zachary Scott: Hollywood’s Sophisticated Cad, Ronald L. Davis writes an appealing biography of the film star.Scott grew up in privileged circumstances—his father was a distinguished physician; his grandfather was a pioneer cattle baron—and was expected to follow his father into medical practice. Instead, Scott began to pursue a career in theater while studying at the University of Texas and subsequently worked his way on a ship to England to pursue acting. Upon his return to America, he began to look for work in New York.

Excelling on stage and screen throughout the 1940s, Scott seemed destined for stardom.By the end of 1950, however, he had suffered through a turbulent divorce. A rafting accident left him badly shaken and clinically depressed. His frustration over his roles mounted, and he began to drink heavily. He remarried and spent the rest of his career concentrating on stage and television work. Although Scott continued to perform occasionally in films, he never reclaimed the level of stardom that he had in the mid-1940s.

To reconstruct Scott’s life, Davis uses interviews with Scott and colleagues, reviews, articles, and archival correspondence from the Scott papers at the University of Texas and from the Warner Brothers Archives.The result is a portrait of a talented actor who was rarely allowed to show his versatility on the screen. ... Read more

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Great Scott
Ronald Davis wrote a previous book about Van Johnson, the still living star of the boy next door type whose sexuality was much whispered about in the 1940s.But, as Davis says of himself, as an author he's no scandalmonger, so much of what makes Van Johnson interesting was absent from Davis' biography, and I imagine Zachary Scott was more interesting than the dapper cipher presented here.

Obviously something went wrong at every stage of Scott's life, though his parents never let him down and supported him financially through his last days.He failed to become a topflight Hollywood star, even though he wentWest at a time when, as Van Johnson discovered too, the war, the draft and simple patriotism had emptied the movie capital of nearly all male competition, and the studios were in dire need of leading men.(Davis theorizes that Zach's dad, a well connected Texas doctor, may have pulled some strings and had his son released from the ordinary citizen's responsibilities).Scott's first marriage collapsed when his life left him for John Steinbeck, and his second marriage was an extraordinary pileup of Gothic egos.Add two "daughters" to the pack (one who Davis interviewed and who winds up coming off as sincere and stable, the other who eluded him who gets the demon treatment), a drinking problem shared by nearly everyone else in the book, and a suspect earring borne steadily in his ear as a defiant badge of "pirate" sexuality, and you've got a recipe for disaster.Yet he did make A MASK FOR DIMITRIOS, MILDRED PIERCE, RUTHLESS, THE YOUNG ONE, THE SOUTHERNER, and (on stage) he played Gavin Stevens in Faulkner's REQUIEM FOR A NUN in London and New York, so who knows, there are grounds for a fullscale Zachary Scott revival.I don't know if Ronald Davis really likes him though.

Physically, the book itself is printed on ultra creamy paper (though I kept hoping for a photo of Scott's sister and or children, in fact there weren't enough photos in general or what there were aren't well chosen.)If I had to die and come back as a book I hope it would be one as sturdy, elegant and pleasing as one of these "Hollywood Legends Series" from the University Press of Mississippi.

Must have if you are a fan of the 40's!
This is a very informative book if you like Zachary Scott.Very detailed about his life growing up and his desire to be a stage actor and movie star.His family life growing up, his closeness to his mother, his marriages, and the making of movies is very interesting.If you love Mr. Scott, as I do, and have seen his movies, this is a must have!

A Very Suave, Sophisticated Movie Star
Zachary Scott, what more can I say! A beautiful man, a great actor and one of the five top "film noir" actors in my opinion. Unfortunately, he was "tagged" as a villain in most of his films. He has a most interesting background coming from a very well to-do family, but fortunately for his fans he chose to become a movie star. A very good book if you want to get to know Zachary Scott, and I did!

A Forgotten Leading Man
I have always been curious about what happened to Zachary Scott - he just seemed to disappear after several years as a leading man.This biography was very informative about his life,albeit, a little slow in the childhood and beginnings but it picked up nicely.It was interesting to know that he came from a very prominent and wealthy family in Texas.His personal life was chronicled in a thorough way and I felt the book was very much worth reading.I bought it and put in my library of Hollywood memorabilia and history. ... Read more

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This new edition has been fully updated to take account of new advances in CAD without being too technical. Twelve leading authorities and pathfinders across the whole spectrum of CAD systems - suppliers, users, consultants and educators - set out the facts that designers need to know in order to understand and exploit the advantages that this new technology can offer. ... Read more

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This step-by-step guide provides the reader with a detailed and thorough introduction to practical antenna design and model implementation

In this book, Hubregt J. Visser provides an introduction to the fundamentals of antenna design and the implementation of design models. A variety of antennas for wireless applications and communications systems are explained, and the real-life use of the antennas is demonstrated through extensive use of application examples. The author includes discussions on the design process of several antennas, such as intravascular MR Antennas, PCB antennas, RFID antennas, rectennas etc. Furthermore, emphasis is placed on Computer Aided Design (CAD) using approximated models.

Key Features

• Includes coverage on intravascular MR Antennas, PCB antennas, RFID antennas, rectennas, etc
• Comprehensively details the application areas, modeling, analysis, and validation processes for individual antennas
• Discusses the use of equivalent dipole antennas, equivalent transmission line networks and electrostatics
• Introduces many antennas and models that have not been covered in previous publications (such as MRI Antennas, for example)

This book will be of interest to microwave and antenna engineers. Graduate and post-graduate antennas students studying BSc and MSc courses, as well as research assistants will also find this book insightful. ... Read more

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Systems to support the continuously shrinking product development cycles and the increasing quality requirements need significant enhancements and new approaches. In this book important new tools and algorithms for future product modeling systems are presented. It is based on a seminar at the International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science, Schloß Dagstuhl, Germany, presented by internationally recognised experts in CAD technology. ... Read more

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A natty little compendium of dandies through the ages, with meditations on dandyism’s key tenets, related arts, and unique outlook on all aspects of life, dress, deportment, style, drinking, gambling, ennui, idleness, extravagance, wit, hedonism, and oh so much more. ... Read more

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Not scholarship, but good fun.
If it's hard scholarship on the history of the dandy that you seek, this book is not for you.

This little book is a totally tongue-in-cheek look at the phenomenon of dandyism:the great dandies of the nineteenth century and well into the 20th--complete with mini-biographies--and the concepts you must master in order to become one with them, sartorially and spiritually.

The illustrations are grainy and poor, and there is some lack of continuity with images and the text, as has already been noted, and a few small historical bits of trivia that are incorrect (for instance, the age of famous dandy's bride when the consummation of their marriage was stipulated; the book states the age was twenty when it was, in reality, nineteen; the true deed itself happened when the bride was 18) but overall a fun read.

Be a Dandy...or Just Look Like One!
This is a charming little book, the only fault of which is that it leaves one wishing for more.The dashing writing style and the author's light touch are well-suited to the subject, interspersing biographies of dandies, witty (of course!) quotes by famous dandies, examinations of various aspects of dandyism, and little scenes between two fictitious dandies. It is so evocative of the spirit of dandyism that I, who am in many ways the opposite of a dandy, began wishing that I were a little more like the historic and fictional bon vivants that inhabit its pages. My only criticism is that photographs are sometimes a little misplaced in the text, so that you are reading about Thomas Wainewright and looking at Benjamin Disraeli, but this is infrequent, and is a very small flaw in a gem of a book. ... Read more

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Describes the theory and presents some useful software tools for physical optics analysis. DLC: Antennas (Electronics) - Design - Data processing. ... Read more

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errata
Errors in the MATLAB code, Antenna Engineering Using Physical Optics

There are errors in the MATLAB code files po09b, po13c, po15d, and po17b, most resulting from calls to previous versions of 3 m-file functions:

incorrect name-----------------correct name
unitr-------------------------norm01
crossr------------------------cross01
vlenr-------------------------length01

These errors can be corrected by making the following changes:

1. on m-file po09b, listed in pages 147-148 of the text, 4 lines must be changed:

line 22 is:
ut2=ones(Na,1)*unitr(crossr(un0,[1 0 0]));
but should be:
ut2=ones(Na,1)*norm01(cross01(un0,[1 0 0]));

line 24 is:
ut1=crossr(ut2,un0);
but should be:
ut1=cross01(ut2,un0);

line 49 is:
urs=unitr([rs zeros(Na,1)]);
but should be:
urs=norm01([rs-ones(size(DSa))*r0]);

line 50 is:
ups=crossr(uns,urs);
but should be:
ups=cross01(uns,urs);

2. on m-file po13c, listed in pages 202-203 of the text, 3 lines must be changed:

line 59 is:
alr=atan(2*Fl./vlenr(rr));
but should be:
alr=atan(2*Fl./length01(rr-rr(:,3)*[0 0 1]));

line 62 is:
u2r=unitr(crossr(unr,ones(Nr,1)*[1 0 0]));
but should be:
u2r=norm01(cross01(unr,ones(Nr,1)*[1 0 0]));

line 63 is:
u1r=crossr(u2r,unr);
but should be:
u1r=cross01(u2r,unr);

3. on m-file po15d, listed on pages 222-224 of the text, 1 line must be changed:

line 26 is:
u2bf=unitr(cross01(unbf,[1 0 0]));

but should be:
u2bf=norm01(cross01(unbf,[1 0 0]));

4. on m-file po15e, listed on pages 222-224 of the text, 1 line must be changed:

line 18 is:
EscJ=-Z0*cross01(ut(nb,:),HscJ); % source E field
HscM=1/Z0*cross01(ut(nb,:),EscM); % source E field
but should be:
EscJ=-Z0*cross01(unb(nb,:),HscJ); % source E field
HscM=1/Z0*cross01(unb(nb,:),EscM); % source E field

5. on m-file po17b, listed on pages 254-257 of the text, 2 lines must be changed:

line 24 is:
u2c1=unitr(cross01(unc1,[1 0 0]));
but should be:
u2c1=norm01(cross01(unc1,[1 0 0]));

line 64 is:
u2c2=unitr(cross01(unc2,[1 0 0]));
but should be:
u2c2=norm01(cross01(unc2,[1 0 0]));

Antenna Engineer
Good book.It really goes into detail.The MATLAB code does not work due to missing functions "unitr" and "crossr". ... Read more