Drafting Reference Book

I just Googled "engineering drawing books".

I've been too long out of engineering to give advice.

Your wisdom is timeless even if the shapes in your front sidewalk are your contemporaries.

Is that warped, imbalanced and uneven?

. . . . yea, . . . that's what I meant.

MIL-STD-100 was in the title block of nearly every one of our drawings for a long time but it is now superseded by the following:

http://quicksearch.dla.mil is a good place to find government specifications

The search feature is not as advanced as we've been accustomed to, but if you search by the base Document Number, you can usually find what you are looking for fairly quickly.

Good luck with your quest.

P.S. You can also find many of the previous revisions of government documents on this website for historical references, or if your government contract specifies an earlier spec. For instance, when we deal with the MH-53E helicopter, we end up using the Rev A version of MIL-STD-704 instead of the current version of Rev H.

Thank you.

https://www.amazon.com/Technical-Drawing-Engineering-Graphics-15th/dp/0134306414

They have an ebook version...

Thank you.

Do you have any experience with the book? The write ups look pretty good but when something is both a "good reference" and a "textbook" I wonder if it is also a good office reference (and referee)?

Well I guess it depends on what exactly you're looking for, but this book seems to have it all....I don't have any personal experience with it....I just read the reviews, and you can click on the book and read several pages in the preview feature...looks good to me..3-D and CAD plays a big part in design drawing now, I guess if you don't care about that you could get an earlier edition...Take a look at the contents pages in the preview feature...

I guess you could find one in the library and check it out....

http://www.worldcat.org/title/technical-drawing-with-engineering-graphics/oclc/1010514193

I still have the 7th edition of that book that I took drafting with in college. Several of my peers do as well and we still look into it occasionally. The younger guys have no clue.

That and any reference book on ANSI Y14.5B, the accepted US standard for mechanical engineering detail drawings, should get you though most disagreements.

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A. Can I get you to put your John Hancock on this little slip of paper ? What's that ; oh that's just my general release of liability agreement.

B. " That's gonna cost you extra " .

I don't know if my information helps you.

But way back during 1950-1970 in India all engineering students used to refer to

"Engineering Drawing" by T.J.Jones.

It used to be about 12"x9" in size with thick papers and a thick dark brown glossy cover.

Of course it was a mechanical Drawing book with cut out views and other drawings of Flanges, IC Engine heard, Plummer Block, Ball Bearing, Gear Train etc.

Those days there used to be soft pine wood drawing boards with wooden T-Square.

All the best .

Sharadchandra Patel

Mumbai India.

Thank you, I'll check into this.

I learned to draw on a soft pine board with a T-square. I don't know why but I still have my T-square. Its probably 24" long so it gets in the way but somehow I just can't throw it out. The "T" end was under water in Hurricane Irma but it is still in good shape.

Manual drafting is pretty much dead, being replaced by CAD. The last time I used manual drafting was in 1996 and that was only in response to previously hand drawn documents. Those have now been digitized and CAD can be used to modify them as needed. Standards as set forth by the DOD and ASME govern how a drawn is generated. It standarizes sheet size, revision, lettering size, etc. I had a crash course in CAD at the shipyard I worked at. CAD took some time to finally become the way we now generate drawings. It has totally revolutionized the way we generate drawings and there is no going back. Once you learn CAD, you will wonder how manual drafting could possibly be of any use. This is probably a bit off topic, but personally, I spent 50 years doing manual drafting and then was thrown into the CAD way. It took me a while to accept this new technology, but once mastered, I fully embrace it. I am now retired and I still use CAD for all my drawings in support of my shop projects.

CAD templates help to "automatically" do some things right but there is still a lot of room for "discussions" about strict compliance with the finer details of ASME, MIL and other standards. Sometimes an industry accepted reference that wasn't written by committee and reviewed by lawyers can be helpful.

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