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Title: Engineering Drawing and Design by David A. Madsen, Terence M. Shumaker, J. Lee Turpin, Catherine Stark, Terrance M. Shumaker ISBN: 0-8273-2602-5 Publisher: Delmar Publishers Pub. Date: September, 1991 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $82.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Engineering Drawing and Design
Comment: This is not a review. I am the author. Your catalog lists Engineering Drawing and Design by David A. Madsen (Editor). I am not the editor. I am the author. Can you please remove the work (Editor) from this listing?

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Rating: 5
Summary: Engineering and Design for today's ANSI/ASME/ISO standards
Comment: This book describes it all, gives the rules of the road for the changes that have occured in the last number of years in ANSI callouts, Geometric Tolerancing, ASME, and ISO practices. I've been in this business since '76 on the drafting board, and since '86 with CADD (Computer Aided Drafting & Design) and have watched the skills of knowing how to draft (a distinct language of its own) and the elements of design and engineering fall by the wayside in general as the focus now by our educators and companies is more about learning to and running a CADD program, making a picture than following the skills and practices of drafting, design, and engineering. Students today need to get back to "walking" (learning drafting) before they "run" with a CADD program. This book addresses what is necessary to create drawings and design the parts as they should be. I highly recommend it to anyone conscientiously wanting to really learn to do the job right and/or to hone their skills.

Rating: 3
Summary: Exhaustive theory, but inaccurate exercises
Comment: As an all-inclusive reference on Drafting theory and practice, this is as good a book as any. However: Having used it as a teaching text, I found an inexcusable number of mistakes in the end-of-chapter exercises. The dimensions simply don't stack up! My advice: Go over them yourself first, time permitting, before assigning them to your classes. Perhaps (hopefully) this has been/will be corrected in later editions. Also: Board drafting is a dying art. Thus, while opening chapters on theory and sketching methods should be retained, more emphasis must now be placed on CAD (not "CADD"); specifically, 3D CAD and downstream processes.