Bertoline G.R. Introduction to Graphics Communications for Engineers

McGraw-Hill, 2009. — 257 p. — ISBN: 9780073522647.Introduction to Graphics Communications for Engineers, Fourth Edition, is part of the McGraw-Hill’s BEST (Basic Engineering Series and Tools), which introduces engineering students to various topics and skills important to their education. This workbook is an introduction to the standard practices used by engineers to communicate graphically. The primary goal of this text is to assist engineering students in learning the techniques and standards of communicating graphically so that design ideas can be clearly communicated and produced.
The text concentrates on the concepts and skills needed to sketch and create 2-D drawings and 3-D CAD models. Engineering graphics has gone through significant changes in the last decade as a result of the use of computers and CAD software. It seems as if some new hardware or software development has an impact on engineering graphics every year. Although these changes are important to the subject of technical graphics, there is much about the subject that has not changed. Engineers still find it necessary to communicate and interpret design ideas through the use of graphical methods such as sketches and CAD drawings and models. As powerful as today’s computers and CAD software have become, they are of little use to engineers who do not fully understand fundamental graphics communications principles and 3-D modeling strategies, or who lack high-level visualization skills.Introduction to Graphics Communications
Sketching and Text
Section and Auxiliary
Dimensioning and Tolerancing Practices
Reading and Constructing Working Drawings
Design and 3-D Modeling