Engineering Graphics - Hardcover

Giesecke, Frederick E.; Etc.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0023427108 ISBN 13: 9780023427107

Publisher: Collier Macmillan Ltd, 1969

Synopsis

A revision of the landmark text in engineering graphics. While maintaining this book's hallmark feature, a set of precise and fully-machinable drawing, The Sixth edition features a new, modern, and motivating pedagogy that improves the student learning experience. Giesecke now features its own web page with animations, a VRML exploration section, and case studies, and also a presentation CD for instructors.

About this title

From the Back Cover

The Eighth Edition of Engineering Graphics continues to offer the strongest coverage of basic graphics principles. Edition after edition, this text serves as the authoritative source on the subject. With this new edition, we have acted upon the requests of reviewers and survey respondents to improve certain aspects of this book while preserving its core presentation.

In particular, the new edition features:

• New Instructor System: Contains Instructor's Resource Guide in both hardcopy and MS Word files, 300 question concept testbank in hardcopy and in MS Word, pdf files of text art, MS PowerPoint slides of key figures, and AutoCAD files of solutions.
• www.prenhall.com/giesecke: Updated to contain over 35 large format, Flash and Windows Media Player animations of concepts keyed to sections/figures in the text, Self-Grading Concept Questions―T/F, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank questions for each chapter, Essay Review Questions, Reference Chapters on Graphs, alignment Charts, Empirical Equations and Graphical Mathematics, Chapter Summaries and Objectives, Links―a robust links section on CAD and technical drawing, PowerPoint/PDF files of art from the text, and Edrawings―a new solid modeling technology that lets you view, rotate, and annotate solid models without any special software.
• New four-color signature of key drawing techniques/illustrations
• Content Updates throughout including many new Graphics Spotlight features on topics such as idea generation, internet drawing communication, and using graphics to design surfboards.
• New Drawings problems at the end of many chapters and new screen captures throughout the book.
• All art completely rechecked for accuracy.

Synopsis

This text offers coverage of basic graphics principles and a set of machineable working drawings.

Edition details

• Publisher: Collier Macmillan Ltd
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0023427108
• ISBN 13: 9780023427107
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 928