Tag: Techniques

MODEL RAILWAY LAYOUT, DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES

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Layout building is perhaps the most exciting, rewarding and challenging aspect of creating a model railway. Making the right design decisions and choosing good construction techniques are vital to ensure success. This book takes you through basic baseboard construction, shelf layout themes and how to link multi-deck designs together, enabling you to make the most of a given space. With different concepts covered, from simple portable layouts to helix construction techniques, Nigel Burkin mixes the best of British layouts with those used routinely overseas and shows you how you too can achieve success and satisfaction in executing your layout design. Topics covered included: Designing for comfort; How to use space efficiently; Practical construction techniques from L-Girder to box frame baseboards; Sub track bed construction, track laying and wiring; Fine tuning the layout for smooth operations.

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Architectural Models: Construction Techniques, 2nd Edition

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Architectural models are a bridge between an idea and its realization. They facilitate a sensual perception of space and architecture, of surfaces and plasticity basic principles of design. In clear, comprehensible form, Wolfgang Knoll and Martin Hechinger explain how design ideas can be skillfully translated into models. This book conveys practical basics and offers a wealth of valuable suggestions for beginners as well as for experienced model makers.

Key Features

-Offers numerous color, black and white photographs, and line drawings, new to this edition, which further enhance understanding and the usefulness of the text
-Introduces to this completely revised edition a new chapter on model photography, whose extraordinary results are captured in the book’s illustrations
-Presents a comprehensive and fully up-to-the-moment discussion of the materials, techniques and uses of architectural model making
-Addresses the appropriate use of CNC model making
-Describes how to select the appropriate scale, materials, and technical skills required to design models, whether by hand, machine, or computer-operated equipment

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Contemporary Digital Architecture: Design and Techniques

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This book presents the latest developments in the field of architecture as it has been reshaped by the use of digital technologies. The last few years, technological developments in both hardware and software have enabled the realization of ideas that until now were only presented as theories, and have also opened new and unexpected areas of experimentation. The new digital technologies are influencing every stage of the creative process from the initial exploration of ideas to the construction of the final work and its interaction with the user. These developments are presented in four chapters, each one including detailed presentation of the most important relevant projects and general theoretical-technical information.

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Boundary Representation Modelling Techniques

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Boundary representation is the principal solid modelling method used in modern CAD/CAM systems. There have been a long series of developments on which currently available systems are based, full details of which are only partially known. Ian Stroud’s thorough coverage of these developments puts this technology in perspective and provides the most complete presentation of boundary representation solid modelling yet published.

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