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Technical Drawing (13th Edition)
Product Description This authoritative book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to Technical Drawing and provides instruction to help users create 2D drawings by hand or by using Computer-Aided Drafting. 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. Book Info Discusses the vagaries of technical drawing, offering the best coverage of basic graphics principles available. Includes coverage of 3D solid modeling, and parametric and constraintbased modeling. DLC: Mechanical drawing. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Reader Reviews This review is from: Technical Drawing (12th Edition) (Hardcover) .: edit, June thirty 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. .: end edit :. As a freshman engineering major, I have been compelled to use Technical Drawing for a graphics course. This has been a profoundly frustrating experience. It seems that the authors, in their zeal to attain unto the dry, lifeless style characteristic of most professional engineering publications, also unintentionally created a text which is superlatively unclear. I am recurrently astonished at the utter incomprehensibility of entire paragraphs. I will read a section, cynically assert that it communicates nothing, read it over a dozen more times, show it to others who in turn read it a dozen times, only to have my first conclusion affirmed. There are extremely blatant contradictions. Terms are used at the beginning of a chapter and not defined until the end. It speaks voluminously about how critical it is to follow the prescribed techniques, only to devote less-than-the-bare-minimum amount of space to the actual descriptions of those techniques. The review questions are frequently unrelated to the content they are supposed to be reinforcing, or are simply placed in the wrong chapter. This (expensive!) book is a conspicuous example of "writing by committee." Technical Drawing may well be a decent-enough reference book - useful if you need a reminder about material you already know - but expect to get angry at it, especially if you're learning the information for the first time. Comment | | (Report this)
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