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Computer-Aided Technologies
Published in Vivek D. Bhise, Automotive Product Development, 2017
Modeling with CAD systems offers a number of advantages over traditional drafting methods that use rulers, squares, and compasses. Designs can be altered without erasing and redrawing. CAD systems offer “zoom” features, analogous to a camera lens, whereby a designer can magnify certain elements of a model to facilitate inspection. Computer models are typically 3-D and can be rotated about any axis, much as one could rotate an actual 3-D model in one’s hand, enabling the designer to gain a fuller sense of the object. CAD systems also lend themselves to modeling cutaway drawings (sectional views), in which the internal shape of a part is revealed, and to illustrating the spatial relationships among a system of parts. CAD models can also provide exploded views showing various components or subsystems involved in an assembly.
Principles of design, planning and prototyping
Published in Mike Tooley, Engineering A Level, 2006
The final type of specialised drawing that we shall be looking at is called an exploded view. Quite simply, an exploded view is a pictorial representation of a product that is taken apart. By drawing the individual component parts separately but in approximately the same physical relationship as when assembled, you can gain a very good idea of how something is put together. Exploded views can be extremely useful when a product has to be serviced or maintained. A service or maintenance engineer has only to take a look at an exploded diagram to see how the various parts fit together.
Interpreting and Using Engineering Information
Published in Mike Tooley, BTEC First Engineering, 2010
The final type of specialised drawing that we shall be looking at is called an exploded view. Quite simply, an exploded view is a pictorial representation of a product that is taken apart. By drawing the individual component parts separately but in approximately the same physical relationship as when assembled, you can gain a very good idea of how something is put together. Exploded views can be extremely useful when a product has to be serviced or maintained. A service or maintenance engineer has only to take a look at an exploded diagram to see how the various parts fit together.
Hybrid rendering of exploded views for medical image atlas visualization
Published in Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization, 2018
Tim McGraw, Alejandro Guayaquil-Sosa
CAD models describing mechanical systems are usually associated with an assembly process which can be used to define an exploded view. Parts are combined into subassemblies, and subassemblies are mounted to assemblies. Biological systems which grow into place don’t have a similar assembly process. In this work, we use the hierarchical structure of the atlas (Figure 2), and the hierarchy of mesh bounding volumes to guide the development of exploded views. Specifically, we use the parent–child relationships and the location of bounding boxes edges to constrain the set of transformation we allow when exploding the atlas. The axes of the bounding boxes which are constructed during hierarchical model assembly are used as explosion directions and rotational axes. These directions initially correspond to the coronal, axial and sagittal radiological imaging planes. However, after applying transformations to nodes in the hierarchy the principal directions may vary among nodes.