Engineering Graphics by Frederick Ernest Giesecke

Engineering Graphics by Frederick Ernest Giesecke

The Eighth Edition of Engineering Graphics continues to offer the strongest coverage of basic graphics principles. Edition after edition, this text serves as the authoritative source on the subject. With this new edition, we have acted upon the requests of reviewers and survey respondents to improve certain aspects of this book while preserving its core presentation.

In particular, the new edition features:

• New Instructor System: Contains Instructor's Resource Guide in both hardcopy and MS Word files, 300 question concept testbank in hardcopy and in MS Word, pdf files of text art, MS PowerPoint slides of key figures, and AutoCAD files of solutions.
• www.prenhall.com/giesecke Updated to contain over 35 large format, Flash and Windows Media Player animations of concepts keyed to sections/figures in the text, Self-Grading Concept Questions--T/F, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank questions for each chapter, Essay Review Questions, Reference Chapters on Graphs, alignment Charts, Empirical Equations and Graphical Mathematics, Chapter Summaries and Objectives, Links--a robust links section on CAD and technical drawing, PowerPoint/PDF files of art from the text, and Edrawings--a new solid modeling technology that lets you view, rotate, and annotate solid models without any special software.
• New four-color signature of key drawing techniques/illustrations
• Content Updates throughout including many new Graphics Spotlight features on topics such as idea generation, internet drawing communication, and using graphics to design surfboards.
• New Drawings problems at the end of many chapters and new screen captures throughout the book.
• All art completely rechecked for accuracy.