Book Description
Get up to speed on formoZ--the 3D modeling program of choice for architects and designers--with this first-of-its-kind, task-simplifying guide. Drawing on her several years of experience teaching formoZ workshops, author Lachmi Khemlani lets you bypass classroom instruction and lengthy software manuals, taking you step-by-step through the building blocks of formoZ. With an easy-to-follow workshop format that's tailor-made for both engineers and intermediate users, this all-in-one resource shows you how to create a variety of 2D and 3D objects; transform objects by various means to achieve desired configurations; derive 3D objects from 2D shapes in a number of ways; conceptualize dimension and scale, and work at multiple topological levels; personalize the formoZ work environment by creating customized colors, layers, reference planes, views, and symbol libraries; achieve realistic lighting and rendering effects with multiple light types, radiosity-based rendering, texture mapping, and decals; and much more. Into 3D With formoZ : includes a detailed appendix that introduces users to the drafting module, which helps in converting 3D models to 2D prints. There's also 400 how-to graphics, 32 pages of full-color illustrations, and a companion CD-ROM packed with full formoZ files for study and practice, plus a working demo of formoZ, release 3.0. It all adds up to the clearest, most complete look at formoZ you can get.
Publisher comments
Form Z is updated from time to time, and it is not always possible to ensure that the CD included in the book is the most recent demo. Readers are welcome to go to the formz website for a free download of the demo.
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Get up to speed on form.Z--the 3D modeling program of choice for architects and designers--with this first-of-its-kind, task simplifying guide. Drawing on her several years of experience teaching form.Z workshops, author Lachmi Khemlani lets you bypass classroom instruction and lengthy software manuals, taking you step-by-step through the building blocks of form.Z.
With an easy-to-follow workshop format that's tailor-made for both engineers and intermediate users, this all-in-one resource shows you how to: create a variety of 2D and 3D objects, ranging from the primitive to the extremely sophisticated; transform objects by various means to achieve desired configurations, ranging from elementary moves to powerful operations such as booleans, insertions, attachments, and extensions; derive 3D objects from 2D shapes in a number of ways: simple extrusions, revolution, sweeping, skinning, projection, terrain modeling, and more; conceptualize dimension and scale, and work at multiple topological levels; personalize the form.Z work environment by creating customized colors, layers, reference planes, views, and symbol libraries; achieve realistic lighting and rendering effects with multiple light types, radiosity-based rendering, texture mapping, and decals; model organic forms with a wide range of mesh-related tools, including metaforms and image-based displacements; generate QuickTime VR movies of the form.Z modeling world.
3D Modeling using form.Z includes a detailed appendix that introduces users to the drafting module, which helps in converting 3D models to 2D prints. There are also 400 how-to graphics, 32 pages of full-color illustrations, and a companion CD-ROM packed with full form.Z files for study and practice, plus a working demo of form.Z. It all adds up to the clearest, most complete look at form.Z you can get.
With an easy-to-follow workshop format that's tailor-made for both engineers and intermediate users, this all-in-one resource shows you how to: create a variety of 2D and 3D objects, ranging from the primitive to the extremely sophisticated; transform objects by various means to achieve desired configurations, ranging from elementary moves to powerful operations such as booleans, insertions, attachments, and extensions; derive 3D objects from 2D shapes in a number of ways: simple extrusions, revolution, sweeping, skinning, projection, terrain modeling, and more; conceptualize dimension and scale, and work at multiple topological levels; personalize the form.Z work environment by creating customized colors, layers, reference planes, views, and symbol libraries; achieve realistic lighting and rendering effects with multiple light types, radiosity-based rendering, texture mapping, and decals; model organic forms with a wide range of mesh-related tools, including metaforms and image-based displacements; generate QuickTime VR movies of the form.Z modeling world.
3D Modeling using form.Z includes a detailed appendix that introduces users to the drafting module, which helps in converting 3D models to 2D prints. There are also 400 how-to graphics, 32 pages of full-color illustrations, and a companion CD-ROM packed with full form.Z files for study and practice, plus a working demo of form.Z. It all adds up to the clearest, most complete look at form.Z you can get.
About the author
Lachmi Khemlani teaches CAD courses at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is also working towards her Ph.D., specializing in computer applications in architecture. In particular, she has been teaching form.Z workshops there for over four years. Her credentials include a professional B.Arch. (Hons) degree from I.I.T Kharagpur, India, and an M.Phil. in Architecture from the University of Cambridge, UK. She has also worked on several design projects as a practicing architect.
