Overview Warren Hammer’s Blueprint Reading Basics has been a bestselling classic for nearly two decades, revered for its ease of understanding and for giving readers opportunities to practice what they learned. With this historic revision, new author Charles Gillis has updated the entire package, replacing ALL figures with CAD-generated artwork, adding new illustrations, representing metric drawing practices alongside English, and including content from drawing standards such as Dimensioning and Tolerancing, Engineering Drawing Practices, Welding Symbols, Orthographic and Pictorial Views, Surface Texture, Undimensioned Drawings, and Types and Applications of Engineering Drawings, among others.
Material has been rearranged for better presentation and an improved reader experience. Chapters on views, dimensions, surface finish, threads, and gears have been expanded, while new material on splines and ca
Table of Contents
The Basics of Manufacturing Prints; The Reading of Manufacturing Prints; The Lines and Views of Manufacturing Prints; The Total Manufacturing Print; Dimensions; Tolerances; Surface Texture; Threads; Fasteners; Gears; Machine Terms and Holes; Machining Requirements; Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing; Types of Manufacturing Prints and Computer Aided Design; Answers.
