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Summary: Good as a quick reference
Review: I disagree with the reviewer from TX. The book is written using terminology that any industrial designer should be familiar with. It would make a good textbook for design students because it gives an overview of many materials & processes. It also has charts and diagrams that make the information easy to digest. My criticisms would be that it could use more examples of final products and detailed descriptions of the materials & processes used, ie case studies. For the price, it is a thin book and could easily include a case study section. I would also like more elaboration in the "charateristics, uses and properties" sections for each material with common pitfalls to avoid.
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Summary: Good as a quick reference
Review: I disagree with the reviewer from TX. The book is written using terminology that any industrial designer should be familiar with. It would make a good textbook for design students because it gives an overview of many materials & processes. It also has charts and diagrams that make the information easy to digest. My criticisms would be that it could use more examples of final products and detailed descriptions of the materials & processes used, ie case studies. For the price, it is a thin book and could easily include a case study section. I would also like more elaboration in the "charateristics, uses and properties" sections for each material with common pitfalls to avoid.
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Summary: disappointed
Review: I expected more from this book. I wanted a book that was written for designers but instead got a book written in engineer-speak with a nice cover (although for the price a hard cover would have been nice). the illustrations look like they are straight out of any other engineering text. "A" for concept, "D" for content. Having said that, there aren't a lot of books to choose from for ID - this may be the best - ... .
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Summary: Not worth the price.
Review: Terrible images: is this a book or a newspaper?!
A lot of info about metal processes but that is it. It has some of plastics, a bit of rubber (like one page or something), and nothing else. Come on Jim, Industrial Design is much more than metal or plastic! Guido.
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Summary: Good choice for industrial design student
Review: This book is intended to give an overview in simple and visual terms, serve as a guide and introduction to this rather complex manufacturing field. Designer must have a good understanding of all manufacturing processes abailable, in order to have confidence that the proposed manufacturing processes is the most economical and appropriate. So, the book tried to give an overview of all materials and manufacturing methods, in order to help students to visualize and develop forms that ultimately will be manufactured. The contests consist of metal materials, metal forming, metal cutting, metal joining, appearance finishing and coating, plastic materials, resin forming processes, machining parts, joining plastics, finishing plastics, rubbers and elastomers, natural engineering materials, composites, and rapid prototyping.
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