Exploring Drafting 14e, Online Textbook
Exploring Drafting is an ADDA-approved publication, ideal for beginning drafting students at any instructional level as it stresses fundamental skills while teaching essential manual and CAD drafting skills. Coverage includes axonometric projection, geometric constructions, orthographic projection, and dimensioning practices, as well as the techniques and procedures used in creating multiview drawings, sectional views, auxiliary views, pictorial views, and pattern developments. Employability features motivate students to find, obtain, and maintain employment in the modern work environment.
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Table of Contents
Abbreviated Contents
Exploring Drafting 14e, Online Textbook
- Exploring Drafting
- Copyright © 2028 by The Goodheart-Willcox Company, Inc.
- Preface
- About the Authors
- Reviewers
- Acknowledgments
- New to This Edition
- Using This Textbook
- Credentialing Partners and Support
- Guided Tour
- The G-W Learning Experience
- Brief Contents
- Contents
- Feature Contents
- Chapter 1 Why Study Drafting?
- Chapter 2 Careers in Drafting
- Chapter 3 Sketching
- Chapter 4 Drafting Equipment
- Chapter 4 Learning Outcomes
- Chapter 4 Before You Begin
- Chapter 4 Drafting Vocabulary
- Chapter 4 Employability
- Chapter 4 Essential Question
- 4.1 Board Drafting Equipment
- 4.2 Scales
- 4.3 Computer-Aided Drafting Equipment
- 4.4 Inspecting, Maintaining, and Servicing Drafting Tools
- 4.5 Working Safely
- Chapter 4 Review
- Chapter 5 Drafting Techniques
- Chapter 5 Learning Outcomes
- Chapter 5 Before You Begin
- Chapter 5 Drafting Vocabulary
- Chapter 5 Employability
- Chapter 5 Essential Question
- 5.1 Line Conventions
- 5.2 Using a Scale
- 5.3 Drawing Lines with Instruments
- 5.4 Erasing Errors
- 5.5 Using a Compass
- 5.6 Darkening Lines
- 5.7 Drafting Sheet Formats
- 5.8 Attaching a Drawing Sheet to the Board
- Chapter 5 Review
- Chapter 6 Basic Geometric Construction
- Chapter 7 Lettering
- Chapter 8 Computer-Aided Drafting and Design
- Chapter 8 Learning Outcomes
- Chapter 8 Before You Begin
- Chapter 8 Drafting Vocabulary
- Chapter 8 Employability
- Chapter 8 Essential Question
- 8.1 Overview of Computer Graphics and CAD
- 8.2 How CAD Works
- 8.3 Drawing Setup Functions
- 8.4 Creating Objects
- 8.5 Editing and Modifying Objects
- 8.6 Using Display Commands
- 8.7 Using Measurement, Object Property, and Drawing Status Commands
- 8.8 Using Help System Functions
- 8.9 CAD File Management and Storage Practices
- 8.10 Overview of CAD Systems and Software
- 8.11 Parametric Modeling
- 8.12 Assembly Modeling
- 8.13 Drawing Documentation
- 8.14 Advanced CAD Systems
- Chapter 8 Review
- Chapter 9 Pictorials
- Chapter 9 Learning Outcomes
- Chapter 9 Before You Begin
- Chapter 9 Drafting Vocabulary
- Chapter 9 Employability
- Chapter 9 Essential Question
- 9.1 Types of Projection
- 9.2 Overview of Pictorial Drawings
- 9.3 Principles of Axonometric Projection
- 9.4 Isometric Drawings
- 9.5 Oblique Drawings
- 9.6 Dimensioning Pictorial Drawings
- 9.7 Perspective Drawings
- 9.8 Exploded Assembly Drawings
- 9.9 Cutaway Pictorial Drawings
- 9.10 Centering Pictorial Drawings
- Chapter 9 Review
- Chapter 10 Multiview Drawings
- Chapter 10 Learning Outcomes
- Chapter 10 Before You Begin
- Chapter 10 Drafting Vocabulary
- Chapter 10 Employability
- Chapter 10 Essential Question
- 10.1 Visualizing the Object and Projecting Views
- 10.2 Identifying Object Features
- 10.3 Primary and Secondary Views
- 10.4 True Faces and Foreshortening
- 10.5 Edges, Intersections, and Limiting Edges
- 10.6 Selecting Views to Be Drawn
- 10.7 Projecting Points and Edges
- 10.8 Centering a Multiview Drawing
- Chapter 10 Review
- Chapter 11 Dimensioning
- Chapter 11 Learning Outcomes
- Chapter 11 Before You Begin
- Chapter 11 Drafting Vocabulary
- Chapter 11 Employability
- Chapter 11 Essential Question
- 11.1 Systems of Measurement Used in Dimensioning
- 11.2 Unidirectional and Aligned Dimensioning
- 11.3 Dimensioning a Drawing
- 11.4 Types of Dimensions
- 11.5 Fundamental Rules for Dimensioning
- 11.6 General Rules for Inch Dimensioning
- 11.7 Dimensioning Circles, Holes, and Arcs
- 11.8 Dimensioning Angles
- 11.9 Dimensioning Small Portions of an Object
- 11.10 Adapting US Customary Conventions to Metric Dimensioning
- 11.11 Tolerancing
- 11.12 Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)
- Chapter 11 Review
- Chapter 12 Section Views
- Chapter 13 Auxiliary Views
- Chapter 13 Learning Outcomes
- Chapter 13 Before You Begin
- Chapter 13 Drafting Vocabulary
- Chapter 13 Employability
- Chapter 13 Essential Question
- 13.1 Auxiliary Views
- 13.2 Projecting Inclined Surfaces and Drawing Auxiliary Views
- 13.3 Drawing Circular Features in Auxiliary Views
- 13.4 Revolutions
- Chapter 13 Review
- Chapter 14 Pattern Development
- Chapter 15 Working Drawings
- Chapter 16 Fasteners
- Chapter 17 Welding Drafting
- Chapter 18 Manufacturing Processes
- Chapter 18 Learning Outcomes
- Chapter 18 Before You Begin
- Chapter 18 Drafting Vocabulary
- Chapter 18 Employability
- Chapter 18 Essential Question
- 18.1 Conventional Machine Tools
- 18.2 Modern Machine Tools
- 18.3 Metal Cutting and Forming Operations
- 18.4 Metal Casting Processes
- 18.5 Plastic Molding Processes
- 18.6 Additive Manufacturing
- 18. Safety in the Shop
- Chapter 18 Review
- Chapter 19 Making Prints
- Chapter 20 Design
- Chapter 21 Models, Mockups, and Prototypes
- Chapter 22 Maps
- Chapter 23 Graphs and Charts
- Chapter 24 Electrical and Electronics Drafting
- Chapter 24 Learning Outcomes
- Chapter 24 Before You Begin
- Chapter 24 Drafting Vocabulary
- Chapter 24 Employability
- Chapter 24 Essential Question
- 24.1 Overview of Electrical and Electronics Drafting
- 24.2 Types of Diagrams Used in Drafting
- CAD Applications in Electrical and Electronics Drafting
- Chapter 24 Review
- Chapter 25 Architectural Drafting
- Chapter 25 Learning Outcomes
- Chapter 25 Before You Begin
- Chapter 25 Drafting Vocabulary
- Chapter 25 Employability
- Chapter 25 Essential Question
- 25.1 Building a Home
- 25.2 Types of Framing and Construction
- 25.3 Types of Plans
- 25.4 Drawing Architectural Plans
- 25.5 Dimensioning Architectural Drawings
- 25.6 Planning a Home
- 25.7 US Customary and Metric Measurement in Architecture
- Chapter 25 Review
- Reference Section
- Math Review
- ASME Drafting and Dimensioning Standards
- ASME Line Conventions
- Conversion Table: US Customary to Metric
- Conversion Table: Metric to US Customary
- Decimal Inch Conversion Chart
- Formulas
- Formulas (Continued)
- Standard Abbreviations Used on Drawings
- Unified Coarse and Unified Fine Thread Series and Tap and Clearance Drills
- Machine Screw and Cap Screw Heads
- Twist Drill Data
- Twist Drill Data (continued)
- Number and Letter Size Drills Conversion Chart
- Glossary
- Index