Università Roma Tre

"Drawing" for the designer is the equivalent of the score for a musician: a
set of encoded and scientific signs that allow the design and then the correct
execution of the work This course aims to provide to future engineers
capabilities and tools in order to design and implement, through the "notation"
of technical drawing, their works.
After an introductory phase introducing the general issues of traditional or
“analogical” drawing, the course will continue using digital technology and in
particular CAD systems.
The representation of civil engineering project in its various phases (survey,
analysis, design, implementation, etc.) poses nontrivial problems especially
when realized in numeric environment.
The several features of a project match different sets of data that, according
to the given requirements, coexist differently in the digital environment.
These data can be separately, jointly or selectively displayed to meet the
need These informations (or data) may be sent separately, jointly or
selectively depending on need, moreover, are processed in a process that is
not static and linear but dynamic and multi polar.
It becomes necessary, therefore, develop a clear vision of the digital
technique that leads to a correct methodical surpassing the empirical
improvisation of neophytes and self-taught people.
The purpose of this course is therefore to provide students with proper
"Philosophy of use" of the drawing and its processing computer tool, in order
to rationally and properly handle all the numerical work processes related to
the project and its representation.

Rudy Rucker
"La quarta dimensione - un viaggio guidato negli universi di ordine superiore"
Adelphi 1994