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Computer Graphical Design Aids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

W. H. P. Leslie
W. H. P. Leslie*
Affiliation:
Numerical Control Division, Machinery Group, National Engineering Laboratory, East Kilbride
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The engineering designer may not always be aware of the paramount importance of being able to sketch his ideas as a means of communicating his plans.

An example illustrates the point that drawings, graphs or diagrams convey concepts more easily than a table of figures. Table I gives a series of X and Y values describing a well-known contour, but it is not easy to determine the shape except by plotting the points. One can appreciate at a glance at Fig. 1, however, that it is a well-known shape.

Although the drawing is very graphic, the term graphic will also be taken to include alphabetical and numerical records for the purpose of this paper.

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Symposium on the Impact of Digital Computers on Engineering
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 71 , Issue 676 , April 1967 , pp. 237 - 244
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1967

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