Engineering Drawing: With Auto CAD

Engineering Drawing is a common subject offered in all branches of engineering. It helps one to express his or her ideas into reality through drawing. This book helps both faculty and students to understand the concepts on their own. The book presents the concepts through a step-by-step approach, with important points to remember duly highlighted. Various worked-out examples and problems in the exercises are presented under various categories so that the students can attempt any particular type of problem they want to. This third edition includes short answer questions, with answers for each chapter. Some new pictures have been added in each chapter apart from figures for easy understanding of the subject. New figures have also been added at places for a clear imagination of that particular object. Figure quality has also been improved. Contents: 1. Introduction and Scales 2. Curves 3. Orthographic projections 4. Projections of points 5. Projections of straight lines 6. Projections of planes 7. Projections using auxiliary planes 8. Projections of solids 9. Projections of sections of solids 10. Development of surfaces of solids 11. Intersection of surfaces of solids 12. Isometric projections 13. Perspective projection 14. Conversion of isometric into orthographic views 15. Computer aided drawing Appendix-I Short Question and Answers Appendix-II Pictures Abbreviations, symbols and notations

B.V.R. Gupta did his B.E. (Mech) from Government College of Engineering, Anantapur affiliated to Sri Venkateswara University, M.E from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He is Fellow of Institution of Engineers India and Life Member of ISTE. He served in different capacities for 34 years at Andhra University College of Engineering, Visakhapatnam. He has also authored Theory of Machines. M. Raja Roy did his B.Tech (Mech) from Bapatla Engineering College, Bapatla (affiliated to Nagarjuna University) and M.E. (CAD/CAM) from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. He is an expert in CAD and web designing and programming.