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Appropriate for an Engineering Graphics course, this book complies with ANSI standards and teaches technical drawing using AutoCAD as its drawing instrument. Taking a step-by-step approach, it encourages students to work at their own pace and uses sample problems and illustrations to guide them through the powerful features of this drawing program. Unique to this text, over 140 exercise problems are included to provide instructors with a variety of assignment material and students with an opportunity to develop their creativity and problem-solving capabilities.

Discusses features of the 2007 AutoCAD program—Throughout the text.

• Provides students with the latest information on dynamic blocks, user interface improvements and productivity enhancements of the 2006 upgrade. 

Complies with ANSI standards—Throughout the text.

• Discusses drawing conventions and practices as related to national standards. 

• Provides complete information on how to use the Dimension and Tolerance commands. 

Uses a step-by-step format—Throughout the text.

• Encourages students to work independently and at their own pace. 

Provides illustrations and sample problems—In every chapter.

• Supports the step-by-step approach by illustrating how to use AutoCAD 2007 and its features to solve various design problems. 

Includes a wide variety of exercise problems—At the end of each chapter.

• Allows instructors to vary assigned problems from class to class.
• Gives students extensive practice applying text content to actual design problems.
• Includes many revised and new problems like the following:
• Chapter 4 now includes extensive exercise problems associated with object orientation.
• Chapter 5 contains intersection problems that are a good way to incorporate orthographic views and projection theory.
• Chapter 8 contains problems that are presented on grids so that the dimensions can be easily derived.
• Chapter 16 provides several exercise problems that demonstrate a solid modeling approach to intersection problems.

1. Getting Started.
2. Fundamentals of 2-D Construction.
3. More Advanced Commands.
4. Sketching.
5. Orthographic Views.
6. Sectional Views.
7. Auxiliary Views.
8. Dimensioning.
9. Tolerancing.
10. Geometric Tolerances.
11. Threads and Fasteners.
12. Working Drawings.
13. Gears, Bearings, and Cams.
14. Fundamentals of 3-D Drawing.
15. Surface Modeling.
16. Solid Modeling.
17. Descriptive Geometry.

Appendice

Engineering Graphics/Technical Drawing  [AUTOCAD 2007]   (CAD / Engineering Graphics / Drafting)

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  Engineering Graphics with AutoCAD® 2006
  Bethune
  ©2006 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 784 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131713914 | ISBN-13: 9780131713918
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  Appropriate for an Engineering Graphics course, this book complies with ANSI standards and teaches technical drawing using AutoCAD as its drawing instrument. Taking a step-by-step approach, it encourages students to work at their own pace and uses sample problems and illustrations to guide them through the powerful features of this drawing program. Unique to this text, over 140 exercise problems are included to provide instructors with a variety of assignment material and students with an opportunity to develop their creativity and problem-solving capabilities.

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