Engineering Graphics

For courses in Engineering Graphics/Technical Drawing and Drafting/Technical Sketching.This authoritative text dominates the market by offering the best coverage of basic graphics principles and an unmatched set of fully machineable working drawings. Its practical, well illustrated, step-by-step explanations of procedures have successfully trained students for 60 years, and continue to appeal to today's visually oriented students.

• Greatly increased coverage of design process in chapter 14. This chapter now includes coverage of 3-D Solid Modeling, and Parametric or Constraint-based modeling.
• Thoroughly revised chapter on manufacturing processes
• Over 50 new problems
• Material on Instrumental Drawing and Lettering condensed to one chapter.
• New coverage of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
• Extensive updating of text graphics to comply to most recent ANSI standards
• New "Graphics Spotlight" feature that highlights a particular use of graphics in industry.
• Decrease in overall size of book — Free CD contains eliminated chapters on Graphics and Diagrams and Alignment Charts as well as over 40 animations of graphics concepts.The problems are in both dwg and dwf form for easy electronic access and display. This CD also includes pdf files of all art in the text for quick integration in course web pages.