Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780023426001 ISBN: 0023426004 Label: Prentice Hall Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 780 Publication Date: 1986-01 Publisher: Prentice Hall Sales Rank: 1570457 Studio: Prentice Hall
Product DescriptionThis book's practical, well illustrated, step-by-step explanations of procedures have successfully trained users for 60 years, and continue to appeal to today's visually oriented users. This book offers the best coverage of basic graphics principles and an unmatched set of fully machinable working drawings. For professions that utilize the skills of engineering graphics/technical drawing and drafting/technical sketching.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Good combination!
This book is a good book to learn basic drafting pratices. It is also a good referance book to keep in your bookcase beside your desk.
Rating: - Excellent text for technical drawing
This book is an excellent reference for anyone needing an introduction to or a reference for technical drawing. Most of the content concerning machine component drawings are geared (no pun intended) more toward traditional methods for technical drawings (i.e. compass, ruler and pencil), but the methods given are well suited to modern computer-oriented methods of solid modeling. Engineers in the manufacturing industry will find it especially useful, as it can be a helpful reference for weldment ... Read More
Rating: - great examples that work poorly
The thing this book does best is demonstrate the inferiority of 2D drafting when compared with 3D modeling. In several parts, the 2D documentation of the parts glosses over some of the more complex implications, and simply leaves it to someone else downstream to figure out. If you try to build some of the example parts in 3D, you see that the dimensions in probably 40% of the parts I worked through simply don't add up.
Shouldn't the book at least describe the concept of draft on example ... Read More
Rating: - The true value of this book . . .
I can only speculate that this book is, as was one of the previous editions I've read, used and loved, is bound to provide an exceptional foundational education in the skill of technical (engineering design) drawing/drafting for those with the natural aptitude for freehand drawing. Readers will indeed learn about and develop precision drawing skills--whether drawing with instruments or computer.
The true value of this book is in its ability to guide and therefore transform the natural artist's ... Read More
Rating: - Reference book in need of an editor
.: edit, June 30 2007 :.
New rating: 3 stars
I wrote the original review in 2005, after several hours of trying to decipher this book and find misplaced information within it so as to complete a class assignment. Discovering that one of its specific textual errors made my specific task impossible, I wrote the following.
If Amazon let me increase my rating, at this point I would, but I maintain that it is unpolished and desperately under-edited.
- Excellent text for technical drawing
- great examples that work poorly
- Reference book in need of an editor
