Technical Drawing School Binding - Hardcover

Giesecke, Frederick E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0131836951 ISBN 13: 9780131836952

Publisher: Imprint Unknown, 2003

Synopsis

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 machinable 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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The Eleventh Edition of Technical Drawing continues to offer the best coverage of basic graphics principles available. Edition after edition, this text serves as the authoritative source on the subject. With this new edition, we have acted upon the requests of over 30 reviewers to improve certain aspects of this book while preserving its core presentation.

In particular, the new edition features:

• 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 Spotlights" feature that highlights a particular use of graphics in industry
• Decrease in overall size of book ― Free CD contains eliminated chapters on Graphs and Diagrams and Alignment Charts as well as over 40 animations of graphics concepts
• Updated web site http://www.prenhall.com/giesecke includes even more questions for review
• New Instructors supplements ― Instructor's Manual by Tom Kane includes teaching tips and extra quiz questions, as well as a new CD-ROM with answer files for cover 450 Giesecke drawing problems. 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.

Prentice Hall publishes a broad range of Graphics and CAD books available at a discount when bundled with this text. Please consult the preface of this text, your Prentice Hall Sales rep, OR GO TO http://www.prenhall.com/cadgraphics/ for more information.

About the Author:

"H.W. JANSON" is a legendary name in art history. During his long career as a teacher and scholar, he helped define the discipline in the United States through his impressive books and other publications. "History of Art," for which he is best known, has been translated into more than a dozen languages.

"ANTHONY F. JANSON" forged a distinguished career as a university teacher, scholar and writer, and museum professional. He took over authorship of "History of Art" and "Basic History of Art" after his father's death in 1982.

About this edition

• Publisher: Imprint Unknown
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0131836951
• ISBN 13: 9780131836952
• Binding: Hardcover