For Technical Drafting, Basic Drafting, Engineering Graphics, and Beginning AutoCAD courses at the freshman undergraduate level.

Totally self-contained, this book teaches the fundamentals of drafting through the use of sketches on gridded paper done with triangles, a circle template and a minimum of other tools and supplies (only a pencil and eraser are absolutely necessary) - and at the same time integrates a practical and empowering introduction to AutoCAD, providing sample drawings on a diskette that are the same as or similar to the pencil sketches found in the text.

Contents

• Introduction
• Sketching Tools, Supplies, and Their Uses
• AutoCAD Fundamentals
• Lettering for Pencil Sketches
• Sketching Line Weights and Drawing Constructions
• Linetypes and Drawing Constructions Using AutoCAD
• Reading and Sketching Orthographic Views
• Making Orthographic Views with AutoCAD
• Sketching Sectional Views
• Making Sectional Views with AutoCAD
• Sketching Pictorial Views
• Isometric Drawing with AutoCAD
• Sketching Floor Plans
• Drawing Floor Plans with AutoCAD
• Sketching Dimensions
• Dimensioning with AutoCAD
• Sketching Elevations
• Drawing Elevations with AutoCAD
• Sketching Electrical Plans
• Drawing Electrical Plans with AutoCAD

• Exercises to Chapters
• Index