Exploring Drafting 13e, Review 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. This 13th edition features a new design and numerous illustrations to enhance learning and student engagement. 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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Exploring Drafting 13e, Review Online Textbook
- Exploring Drafting
- Copyright © 2023 by The Goodheart-Willcox Company, Inc.
- Preface
- About the Authors
- Reviewers
- Acknowledgments
- New to This Edition
- Using This Textbook
- Certification Standards
- Features of the Textbook
- Tools for Student and Instructor Success
- Brief Contents
- Contents
- Feature Contents
- Chapter 1 Why Study Drafting?
- Chapter 2 Careers in Drafting
- Chapter 2 Objectives
- Chapter 2 Drafting Vocabulary
- Drafting Occupations
- Industrial Designers
- Tool Designers
- Interior Designers
- Teachers
- Engineers
- Architects
- Model Makers
- Technical Illustrators
- Leadership in Drafting Technology
- What to Expect When You Enter the World of Work
- Where to Get Information about Careers in Drafting Technology
- Time Management
- Employer Expectations
- Ethics
- Project Management
- Chapter 2 Review
- Chapter 3 Sketching
- Chapter 4 Drafting Equipment
- Chapter 4 Objectives
- Chapter 4 Drafting Vocabulary
- Drawing Board
- T-Square
- Parallel Straightedge
- Triangles
- Drafting Machine
- Compass
- Dividers
- Pencil Pointer
- Erasers
- Electric Erasers
- Erasing Shield
- Media Fasteners
- Dusting Brush
- Protractor
- French Curves
- Templates
- Drafting Media
- Pencils
- Inking
- Scales
- Computer-Aided Drafting Equipment
- Inspecting, Maintaining, and Servicing Drafting Tools
- Working Safely
- Chapter 4 Review
- Chapter 5 Drafting Techniques
- Chapter 5 Objectives
- Chapter 5 Drafting Vocabulary
- Line Conventions
- Using a Scale
- Drawing Lines with Instruments
- Drawing a Line Perpendicular to a Given Line
- Erasing Errors
- Using a Compass
- Darkening Lines
- Attaching a Drawing Sheet to the Board
- Drafting Sheet Formats
- Chapter 5 Review
- Drawing Problems
- Chapter 6 Basic Geometric Construction
- Chapter 7 Computer-Aided Drafting and Design
- Chapter 7 Objectives
- Chapter 7 Drafting Vocabulary
- Overview of Computer Graphics and CAD
- How CAD Works
- File Management Functions
- Basic CAD System Functions
- Drawing Setup Functions
- Creating Objects
- Editing and Modifying Objects
- Using Display Commands
- Using Measurement, Object Property, and Drawing Status Commands
- Using Help System Functions
- CAD File Management and Storage Practices
- Overview of CAD Systems and Software
- Parametric Modeling
- Assembly Modeling
- Drawing Documentation
- Advanced CAD Systems
- Chapter 7 Review
- Drawing Problems
- Chapter 8 Lettering
- Chapter 9 Multiview Drawings
- Chapter 9 Objectives
- Chapter 9 Drafting Vocabulary
- Visualizing the Object and Projecting Views
- Identifying Object Features
- Primary and Secondary Views
- True Faces and Foreshortening
- Edges, Intersections, and Limiting Edges
- Selecting Views to Be Drawn
- Projecting Points and Edges
- Centering a Multiview Drawing
- Chapter 9 Review
- Drawing Problems
- Chapter 10 Dimensioning
- Chapter 10 Objectives
- Chapter 10 Drafting Vocabulary
- Systems of Measurement Used in Dimensioning
- Unidirectional and Aligned Dimensioning
- Dimensioning a Drawing
- Types of Dimensions
- Fundamental Rules for Dimensioning
- General Rules for Inch Dimensioning
- Dimensioning Circles, Holes, and Arcs
- Dimensioning Angles
- Dimensioning Small Portions of an Object
- Adapting US Customary Conventions to Metric Dimensioning
- Tolerancing
- Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)
- Chapter 10 Review
- Drawing Problems
- Chapter 11 Sectional Views
- Chapter 12 Auxiliary Views
- Chapter 13 Pictorials
- Chapter 13 Objectives
- Chapter 13 Drafting Vocabulary
- Types of Projection
- Overview of Pictorial Drawings
- Principles of Axonometric Projection
- Isometric Drawings
- Oblique Drawings
- Dimensioning Pictorial Drawings
- Perspective Drawings
- Exploded Assembly Drawings
- Cutaway Pictorial Drawings
- Centering Pictorial Drawings
- Chapter 13 Review
- Drawing Problems
- Chapter 14 Pattern Development
- Chapter 15 Working Drawings
- Chapter 16 Making Prints
- Chapter 17 Design
- Chapter 18 Models, Mockups, and Prototypes
- Chapter 19 Maps
- Chapter 20 Graphs and Charts
- Chapter 21 Welding Drafting
- Chapter 22 Fasteners
- Chapter 23 Electrical and Electronics Drafting
- Chapter 24 Architectural Drafting
- Chapter 25 Manufacturing Processes
- Reference Section
- Math Review
- Why Math
- Calculators
- Whole Numbers
- Equations
- Area Measure
- Finding the Circumference and Area of a Circle
- Volume Measure
- Exponents
- Working with Right Angles
- Computing Averages
- Percent and Percentage
- ASME Drafting and Dimensioning Standards
- ASME Line Conventions
- Drawing Sheet Sizes
- Standard Abbreviations Used on Drawings
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y
- Glossary
- Index