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b0bd0db0bd0d Registered User regular
edited September 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
I'm in a CAD class and since it's going to be related to my major I need more information. What's some good refrences for orthograhic projections and dimensioning? I'd like to get some actual factual books. And some websites. Anybody got some of them? I'm not that big a fan of my text book.

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  • mrcheesypantsmrcheesypants Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Which textbook are you using?

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  • DrakmathusDrakmathus Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    you want dimensioning standards and such? There are a lot of difference standards for that sort of thing and a lot of companies just do their own thing anyway. ASME Y14.5M-1994 is the one talked about on wikipedia but there are also ISO and ANSI geometric referencing and tolerance standards as well.

    I'm pretty sure the Machinery's Handbook covers it and that is a book EVERYONE should own. I can check tomorrow morning and get back to you in the evening on whether it is talked about in that book or not.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_Dimensioning_and_Tolerancing

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  • TresstheFoolTresstheFool Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Try going to augi.com. My CAD professor recommends it. Also, the text that I'm currently using, "Engineering Drawing and Design" by David Madsen is pretty good.

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  • b0bd0db0bd0d Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    I'm using Engineering Graphics Essentials w/ autocad 2008 instruction. It's by Kirstie Plantenberg at the University of Detriot Mercy. I'm not really enjoying it. It doesn't seem to have a lot of information to it. Like, there's little cute tutorials and shit, but I need something with more meat on it. I'm not sure if the writer thinks that more information would be explained in class or is vague on purpose. I just need something that says in plain english what I can do and what I can not do. Like, center lines do this. Construction lines do this. This is how this works. Don't do this. You know, real live rules.

    I also got autocad 2008 education version for the next 180 days. What do I do when it expires?

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  • DrakmathusDrakmathus Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    buy it?

    You can do pretty much whatever you want in autocad re: the lines. The only big thing is that lines marked as for construction won't be considered when extruding the sketch (if you're doing 3d). You could draw up an entire part in 2d with nothing but construction lines and it wouldn't matter, same goes for center lines. All you have to do is change the line type in the properties menu.

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