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• Lecture Notes online
• Online Tutorials
• Manuals in AAA Library, Klamath/Millrace
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1. Creates a database with multiple uses and formats 

• Can easily change attributes (i.e. color & texture, plotted scale, line quality)
  
• Dimensions are in the graphics:  i.e. stores a circle's center and radius
  
• Quantities can be taken from graphic input, i.e. counting furniture.

• Specific representation - a box is a box:  interpretation limited
• Powerful control of quantity & complexity 
• Consistent style can unify a group presentation 
  

B.  Coordinate systems support vectors

• Relative vs. Absolute
• Rectangular vs Polar
• Collage of multiple coordinate systems (shifted, rotated, polar)
  
  

C. Spatial Representation via point, line, plane & volume

• File management
• Viewing / Navigation
• Element Creation
• Selection
• Element Attributes
• Transformations (geometric or processing)
• Organizing structures 
• On-line help

? What tools do you see for these in GoLive and Photoshop?

2D Views of a 3D model

• Multiple orthogonal views (plan, section, elevation)
• Axonometric vs. Perspective
• Camera and Target analogy (Edit Cone of Vision)

Actual Dimensions vs. Viewed and Plotted Scales 

• Screen views and printed versions are camera zooms on a static model
  

What parts of the FormZ interface are similar to other programs such as Netscape & Photoshop? 

• Icon toolbar
• Pull-down menus ( File, Edit, Windows, View, Help)
• Palettes (optional windows)
• Interface changes according to choices 

What parts of FormZ's interface are different from other programs? 

• 2-modes:  2D Drafting  & 3D Modeling (including Rendering)
• Prompts window tells you what's going on
• Graphic Window with window-specific tools
• Can have many graphic windows to look at a drawing or model in different ways

Special quirks: Modifier Tools 

• Icons:  Aqua modifiers vs. Black & white commands
• Heights menu modifies 3D objects

Overview:  Common Operations 

• File management (File menu)
• Viewing / Navigation (Window Tools for Zoom & Pan, View menu, Display menu)
• Creating (Drawing Tools)
• Selecting/Editing (topological levels, Transformations
• Organizing structures 
  • Grouping systems:  Layers, Symbols, Objects & Groups
  • Control structures:  Snaps, grids, coordinate systems
  • Topologcal Levels
• On-line help