3-D Modeling Using Form Z

Name: 3-D Modeling Using Form Z
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ISBN: 9780070349339

ISBN-10: 0070349339

ISBN-13: 9780070349339

Edition: 1999

Authors: Lachmi Khemlani

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Form Z is a general purpose 3 dimensional modeling system that provides the personal computer user with sophisticated solid, surface and form-manipulating capabilities. This book covers various aspects of the program and its capabilities.

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List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

Foreword	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
Getting Acquainted	p. 1
Overview of form[middle dot]Z Objects	p. 1
Launching form[middle dot]Z	p. 2
Exploring the Basic Interface	p. 3
Working with the Tool Palettes	p. 6
Getting Help	p. 9
Creating Your Own Shortcut Keys	p. 10
Communicating with Other Programs	p. 12
Letting Yourself Go	p. 15
Beginning with 2D: A Complete Session	p. 16
Setting the Stage: Starting form[middle dot]Z	p. 16
Single-line 2D Mode	p. 16
Creating Closed Shapes	p. 17
Working with Dialogs and the Tool Options Palette	p. 18
Creating Open Shapes	p. 20
Double-line 2D Mode	p. 22
Cleaning Up: Moving and Deleting	p. 23
Changing Views	p. 23
Specifying Heights	p. 24
Deriving 3D Objects from 2D Shapes	p. 25
Changing the Display	p. 26
Ending the Show: Printing and Closing	p. 27
Direct 3D	p. 29
Clearing the Project of All Objects	p. 30
3D Object Generation Modes	p. 30
Different Object Personalities	p. 31
Modeling Primitive 3D Objects	p. 32
Creating Spheroids	p. 35
Using Predefined Reference Planes	p. 36
Some Basic Functions	p. 37
Changing Colors	p. 38
Using the Perpendicular Lock	p. 38
Undoing and Redoing	p. 38
Prepicking and Postpicking	p. 40
Area Picking	p. 41
Other Methods of Selection...and Deselection	p. 42
Ghosting and Unghosting Objects, and the Status of Objects Option	p. 43
Zooming And Scrolling	p. 44
Combining Objects in Various Ways: The Booleans	p. 46
Union	p. 47
Intersection	p. 48
Difference	p. 49
Split	p. 49
The Color Tool Revisited	p. 50
Joining and Separating Volumes	p. 51
Assignment: A Simple Pavilion	p. 52
Bringing a Sense of Scale	p. 57
Sizing Up Your World	p. 58
Specifying the Working Units	p. 58
Tracking Coordinates	p. 59
Direct Numeric Input	p. 60
Absolute and Relative Coordinates	p. 61
Switching Between the Prompts and Coordinates Palettes	p. 62
Cartesian and Polar Coordinates	p. 62
Scaled Moves	p. 63
Restraining the Cursor	p. 64
Setting Up the Graphics Window	p. 64
Grid Snapping	p. 66
Direction Snapping	p. 67
Object Snapping	p. 68
Options for Object Snapping	p. 71
Transcending Objects: Working at Multiple Levels	p. 73
Working with Points, Segments, Outlines, and Faces	p. 73
Inserting Points and Segments	p. 75
Deleting Topological and Geometrical Entities	p. 76
Working with Groups	p. 77
Using the Objects Palette	p. 78
Querying at Different Levels	p. 82
Measuring Distances Using Different Topological Levels	p. 83
Executing Transformations and Making Copies	p. 84
Elementary Geometric Transformations	p. 85
The Self-Copy Modifiers	p. 87
Copying and Duplicating	p. 89
Defining and Using Macro Transformations	p. 90
Transformations Using the Pick Tool	p. 92
Editing Lines	p. 95
Editing Polycurves and Analytic Primitives	p. 100
Insertions: A Convenient Alternative to Booleans	p. 101
Inserting Outlines	p. 101
Inserting Faces	p. 102
Inserting Holes	p. 103
Inserting Openings	p. 104
Working with Holes and Volumes	p. 105
Triangulation: Getting Rid of Non-Planar Faces	p. 105
Assignment: An Architectural Block Model	p. 106
Personalizing Your Environment	p. 115
Your Own Colors and Styles	p. 116
Customizing Project Colors	p. 116
Creating a New Surface Style	p. 117
Editing and Managing Existing Surface Styles	p. 120
Controlling the Displays	p. 120
Wire Frame Options	p. 121
Quick Paint and Surface Render Options	p. 122
Hidden Line Options	p. 122
Shaded Render Options	p. 123
QuickDraw 3D and OpenGL Options	p. 125
Working with Layers	p. 126
Creating New Layers	p. 127
Attributes of a Layer	p. 128
Moving Objects Between Layers	p. 129
Global Manipulation of Layers	p. 130
Working with Layer Groups	p. 131
The Layers Dialog	p. 132
Using Your Own Reference Planes	p. 133
Arbitrary Reference Planes	p. 133
Switching Between Predefined and Arbitrary Planes	p. 136
Using Arbitrary Plane Coordinates	p. 136
Using Multiple Arbitrary Planes	p. 137
The Reference Plane Manipulation Tools	p. 139
Having Different Views	p. 140
Predefined Axonometric Views	p. 140
Other Types of 3D Views	p. 143
Using the Views Palette	p. 144
Creating Customized Views: The Cone of Vision	p. 146
The Cone Of Vision Menu	p. 148
The View Parameters Dialog	p. 150
Setting, Navigating, and Walking Through Views	p. 152
Underlays and the Match View Tool	p. 155
Associated Windows, Tile Windows, and Window Frames	p. 158
Specifying Your Preferences	p. 159
Creating and Using Preference Files	p. 160
Other Preferences	p. 161
Assignment: An Item of Furniture	p. 163
Enhancing Your Modeling Capabilities	p. 175
Going Round and Up and Down	p. 176
Generic Objects of Revolution	p. 176
Helixes	p. 179
Screws and Bolts	p. 182
Spiral Staircases	p. 182
Straight Staircases	p. 184
Sweeping Your Way Through	p. 186
Axial Sweep	p. 186
Two Source Sweep	p. 189
Two Path Sweep	p. 190
Boundary Sweep	p. 191
Skinning Your Forms	p. 192
Skinning Along a Path	p. 192
Skinning Using Anchor Points	p. 195
Cross Skinning	p. 196
Cutting Your Sections	p. 198
2D Sections	p. 199
3D Sections	p. 200
Contour Cuts	p. 201
Moving Over Rugged Terrains	p. 202
Meshed Terrain Model	p. 202
Stepped Terrain Model	p. 205
Triangulated Terrain Model	p. 206
Combining Terrain Model Types	p. 206
The Remaining Derivatives	p. 207
Deriving 2D Objects and Enclosures	p. 207
Creating Parallel Objects	p. 208
Making Projections	p. 209
Unfolding Objects	p. 210
Deriving Objects from Other Objects	p. 211
Rounding Objects and Drafting Angles	p. 211
Plain Rounding	p. 212
Controlled Rounding	p. 214
Stitch Rounding	p. 216
Applying Draft Angles	p. 216
Cultivating Attachments	p. 218
Point-to-Point Attachments	p. 219
Segment-to-Segment Attachments	p. 220
Face-to-Face Attachments	p. 222
Object-to-Object Attachments	p. 223
Repositioning Objects Using Attach	p. 223
Alignments, Extensions, and Placements	p. 224
Aligning and Distributing Objects	p. 224
Extending Segments and Faces	p. 225
Placing Objects	p. 226
Multiple Placements	p. 228
Assignment: Site Planning for Urban Design	p. 230
Illuminating and Texturing Your World	p. 237
Imaging	p. 238
RenderZone Options	p. 238
Saving and Viewing Image Files	p. 243
Image Options	p. 244
Saving Incomplete Renderings	p. 246
Plotting and Rendering Memory Management	p. 247
Using an Imager Set	p. 249
Lights Galore!	p. 252
Rendering with Shadows	p. 252
Positioning the Sun	p. 254
The Light Parameters Dialog	p. 256
Distant, Point, Cone, and Projector Lights	p. 259
Area Lights	p. 262
Custom Lights	p. 264
The Lights Palette and Dialog	p. 267
Performing an Illumination Analysis	p. 269
Radiosity Based Rendering	p. 271
Initializing, Generating, and Rendering a Radiosity Solution	p. 272
Other Radiosity Basics	p. 273
Radiosity Options	p. 274
A Closer Look at Textures	p. 278
Scaling Textures	p. 278
Precise Texture Mapping	p. 279
Transformations to Textured Objects	p. 282
Mapping Textures to Individual Faces	p. 283
Image Mapping	p. 285
Decals	p. 289
Other Object Properties	p. 291
Smooth Shading	p. 292
Rendering Attributes	p. 292
Setting and Getting Attributes	p. 293
Querying for Attributes	p. 294
Assignment: A Table Lamp	p. 295
Becoming Enmeshed in Your Creations	p. 305
Plain and Smooth Meshes	p. 306
Plain Meshes	p. 306
Plain Mesh Options	p. 307
Smooth Meshes	p. 309
Smooth Mesh Options	p. 310
Reducing Mesh Density	p. 313
Moving, Disturbing, and Deforming Meshes	p. 314
Moving Meshes	p. 314
Creating and Using Profiles	p. 315
Mesh Movement Options	p. 316
Disturbing Points	p. 318
Deforming Objects	p. 320
Displacing Meshes	p. 323
Image-Based Displacement	p. 323
Basic Displacement Options	p. 324
Flat Mapping	p. 326
Cylindrical and Spherical Mapping	p. 330
Controlled Curves and Meshes	p. 331
2D Controlled Curves	p. 332
3D Controlled Meshes	p. 335
Controlled Mesh Options	p. 335
Nurbz and Patch Objects	p. 339
Nurbz Objects	p. 340
Patch Objects	p. 341
Dividing and Attaching Patches	p. 343
Editing Controls and Surfaces	p. 345
Dropping Controls	p. 347
Cutting and Gluing Meshes	p. 348
Trimming and Splitting Objects	p. 348
Trimming with Lines	p. 350
Deriving Lines of Intersection	p. 351
Stitching Surface Objects	p. 351
Assignment: A Curved Roof Structure for a Stadium	p. 353
Ending with More	p. 363
Writing in 3D	p. 364
Placing Text	p. 364
Editing Text	p. 365
Other Options for Text Placement	p. 367
Placing Text Along Paths	p. 368
Editing Text Placement Lines	p. 370
The Power of Symbols	p. 370
Creating Symbols from Objects	p. 371
Creating Multiple Definitions of a Symbol	p. 373
Placing Symbol Instances into Projects	p. 373
Editing and Exploding Symbol Instances	p. 375
Updating Symbols Dynamically	p. 376
The Metaphysics of Metaformz	p. 377
Creating and Evaluating Metaballs	p. 378
Metaballs and Metaformz Options	p. 379
Editing Metaballs	p. 381
Deriving Metaforms from Regular Objects	p. 382
Panoramic Views and QuickTime VR	p. 384
Panoramic Views	p. 384
Generating Panoramic Movies	p. 386
Generating Object Movies	p. 387
Animating Your World	p. 389
Using the Cage Tool	p. 389
Creating an Animation from Key Frames	p. 391
Previewing Animations Using the Animation Palette	p. 395
Generating and Playing Animation Files	p. 396
Assignment: Book Cover Design	p. 399
Brief Overview of the Drafting Module	p. 409
From Modeling to Drafting	p. 409
Differences Between the Drafting and Modeling Environments	p. 412
Draft Space Versus Layout Space	p. 414
The Drafting Tool Palette	p. 415
Index	p. 423
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