Click for Companion Site Prototype. Engineering Design Communication: Conveying Design through Graphics-PRELIMINARY EDITION is a new approach to the traditional foundation course in engineering graphics. The emphasis in the text reflects the changes that many schools are making to their graphics courses, including the importance of sketching, incorporating the coverage of design necessary for effective modeling and use of the 3D solid model as a design database that may be used throughout the engineering design process. *Presents the CAD file as a database of design information that is developed over time. The use of solid and parametric modeling software makes it possible to follow the design process through the course-students first learn to sketch their ideas, transform 2D sketches into 3D models, refine the models and use them for analysis, and finally use the models to document the design. The Designer s Notebook feature highlights the use of sketching in the context of industrial practice helping motivate students to learn to sketch well. *Introduces topics that will help students learn to reflect design intent in their models. Building effective models that will update corre