The following features were designed to provide easy navigation and quick reference for students and professionals who look to Giesecke both as a helpfully-organized teaching text and a lasting reference.
These sections add background information for key topics.
This introductory section covers the chapter topic’s usage and importance, visualization tips, and theory related to the drawing and modeling techniques.
This is the “brass tacks” of the book, where detailed techniques, variations, and examples are organized into quick-read sections, numbered for easy reference.
Complicated processes are shown as step-by-step activities with each illustration right next to the text that explains it.
CAD at Work sections break out examples related to using the 2D or 3D CAD model to generate drawings.
Several industry practitioners share their approaches to modeling and documenting design.
These pages offer examples of finished drawings showing real-world application of topics presented.
Colored callouts differentiate explanatory text from annotations in technical drawings. Consistent use of color helps differentiate the meaning of projection lines, fold lines, and other drawing elements. A color key is provided for easy reference.
Each chapter ends with Key Words, a Chapter Summary, and Review Questions.
The Giesecke problem sets feature updated exercises including plastic and sheet metal parts, constraint-based modeling, sketching problems, and reverse engineering projects.
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