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Giesecke (late professor emeritus of drawing, Texas A&M U.) and colleagues at Texas A&M and the Illinois Institute of Technology provide a comprehensive text on graphic language and design. Chapters list learning objectives, and CAD applications, for such topics in the field as: graphical vector analysis; manufacturing processes; multiview, axonometric, and oblique projections; and cartography, geology, and spherical geometry. Features numerous graphics naturally, a CAD/CAM glossary, and appended American National Standards and other technical data. Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR

Book Description
This authoritative book dominates the market by offering the best coverage of basic graphics principles and an unmatched set of fully machine able working drawings. Its 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 learners. Specific chapter topics include graphic language and design, introduction to CAD geometric constructions, sketching and shape description, multiview projection, revolutions., manufacturing design and processes, dimensioning, tolerancing, reproduction and control of drawings, axonometric projection, oblique projection, parallelism and perpendicularity, intersections., developments, line and plane tangencies, and graphical vector analysis. For individuals interested in the fields of engineering graphics and technical drawing, drafting, and sketching.

Book Info
Provides a thorough coverage of technical drawing and design, descriptive geometry, and graphs and graphical computation using both traditional methods and computer graphics. Introduces new industrial practices and developments focusing on the use of CAD and how designers work with computers. DLC: Engineering graphics.

The publisher, Prentice-Hall Engineering/Science/Mathematics
The new edition of this book continues to provide thorough coverage of technical drawing and design, descriptive geometry, graphs and graphical computation, and computer graphics. It contains a wide range of problems and can be used as a reference manual. Expanded coverage of computer graphics introduces readers to this emerging and powerful technology. The authors have incorporated new industriad practices, trends, and developments. The increased emphasis on the design function of the engineer is evident throughout.

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