Principles and Practices: An Integrated Approach to Engineering Graphics and AutoCAD
2010 combines an introduction to AutoCAD 2010 with a
comprehensive coverage of engineering graphics principles. By
adopting this textbook, you will no longer need to adopt separate
CAD and engineering graphics books for your course. Not only will
this unified approach give your course a smoother flow, your students will
also save money on their textbooks. What's more, the
tutorial exercises in this text have been expanded to cover the
performance tasks found on the AutoCAD 2010 Certified Associate Examination.
The primary goal of Principles
and Practices: An Integrated Approach to Engineering Graphics and AutoCAD
2010 is to introduce the aspects of engineering graphics with
the use of modern Computer Aided Design/Drafting software - AutoCAD 2010. This text is intended to be used as a training guide for
students and professionals. The chapters in the text proceed in a
pedagogical fashion to guide you from constructing basic shapes to
making complete sets of engineering drawings. This text takes a
hands-on, exercise-intensive approach to all the important concepts
of Engineering Graphics, as well as in depth discussions of CAD
techniques.
This textbook contains a series
of twelve chapters, with detailed step-by-step tutorial-style
lessons designed to introduce beginning CAD users to the graphic
language used in all branches of technical industry. The CAD
techniques and concepts discussed in the text are also designed to
serve as the foundation to the more advanced parametric
feature-based CAD packages, such as
Autodesk Inventor.
After completing this text your
students will be prepared to pass the AutoCAD Certified Associate Examination. Certified
Associate Reference Guides located at the front of the book and in each
chapter show where these performance tasks are covered.
