Synopses & Reviews
This full-color text is a clear and comprehensive introduction and reference for students and professionals creating engineering drawings and graphics by hand or using CAD. It offers excellent technical detail, up-to-date standards, motivating real-world examples, and clearly explained theory and technique in a colorful, highly visual, concisely written format. Designed as an efficient tool for busy, visually oriented learners, this edition expands on well-tested material, bringing its content up to date with the latest standards, materials, industries and production processes. Colored models and animations bring the material to life for the student on the book’s companion website. For undergraduate courses in Introductory Drafting, Technical Drawing, and Engineering Graphics.
Synopsis
This completely rewritten adaptation of Giesecke utilizes an abundance of hands-on activities and clear step-by-step descriptions to teach users freehand sketching and visualization skills for engineering graphics. The eighth edition features reorganized, consolidated coverage of Solid Modeling, new drawing problems, and fully proofed drawings. Other chapter topics include design and graphic communication, introduction to cad and solid modeling, freehand sketching and lettering techniques, geometric construction and modeling basics, multi-view sketching and projection, pictorial sketching, sectional views, dimensioning, and tolerancing, For individuals interested in the fields of technical drawing and engineering graphics.
Table of Contents
1. The Worldwide Graphic Language for Design
2. Layouts and Lettering
3. Technical Sketching
4. Orthographic Projection
5. 2D Drawing Representation
6. Sectional Views
7. Auxiliary Views
8. Manufacturing Processes
9. Dimensioning
10. Tolerancing
11. Threads, Fasteners, and Springs
12. Working Drawings