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The primary objective of this book is to provide an easy approach to the basic principles of Engineering Drawing, which is one of the core subjects for undergraduate students in all branches of engineering. Further, it offers comprehensive coverage of topics required for a first course in this subject, based on the author´s years of experience in teaching this subject.

Emphasis is placed on the precise and logical presentation of the concepts and principles that are essential to understanding the subject. The methods presented help students to grasp the fundamentals more easily. In addition, the book highlights essential problem-solving strategies and features both solved examples and multiple-choice questions to test their comprehension.

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1. Introduction Drawing instruments, Drawing sheets, Dimensioning, Lettering. Lettering and Drawing exercises.
2. Geometrical constructions Division of a line, Construction of arcs, triangles and polygons. Circumference of circle. Practice problems.
3. Scales Plain, Diagonal and Vernier scales. Practice problems.
4. Curves used in engineering practice Conic curves, Cycloidal curves, Involute and Spiral. Applications. Practice problems.
5. Orthographic projections Reference planes, First quadrant projections, Third quadrant projections, Orthographic projections from pictorial views, Pictorial views from orthographic projections, Missing line corrections in orthographic views and Missing view additions in orthographic views. Practice problems.
6. Projections of points Pictorial representation and orthographic projections of points. Practice problems. 7. Projections of lines Projections of lines in simple position, Trapezium method, and projections of lines inclined to both the planes. Application problems. Practice problems.
8. Projections of plane figures Triangle, quadrilateral, circle and polygons. Practice problems.
9. Projections of solids Classification of solids. Projections of prisms, pyramids, polyhedrons, cylinder, cone, sphere and combination of solids. Practice problems.
10. Auxiliary projections Auxiliary planes. Auxiliary projections of points and lines. Change of position method. Auxiliary projections of prisms, pyramids, polyhedrons, cylinder and cone. Practice problems.
11. Sections of solids Section planes. Sectional projections of prisms, polyhedrons, pyramids, cylinder, cone and sphere. True shapes of sections. Practice problems.
12. Intersection of surfaces Methods of drawing the lines of intersection of surfaces. Cylinder penetrating cylinder, cylinder penetrating cone, cone penetrating cylinder and prism penetrating prism. Practice problems.
13. Development of surfaces Parallel line method. Radial line method. Developments of prims, pyramids, cone, polyhedrons and cut solids. Helix and helical spring. Practice problems.
14. Is ometric projection Principle of isometric projection. Isometric projection and Isometric view. Isometric projections of plane figures, prisms, cylinder, cone, pyramids, cut solids, combination of solids and cubical objects. Practice problems. 15. Perspective projection Nomenclature of perspective. Centre of vision method. Perspective of points, parallel lines and polyhedron. Vanishing point method. Perspective of parallel lines, plane figures, solids and cylinder. Practice problems.
16. Objective type questions Bibliography

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K. Rathnam obtained his Bachelor´s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, under Madras University, Chennai in 1968 and his M. Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1972. He has thirty-three years of teaching experience at Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India, where he has offered courses on e.g. Engineering Drawing, Thermodynamics, and Fluid Mechanics at the undergraduate level. He has published two papers in the Journal of Sound and Vibration and two papers in Acta Acustica in the areas of acoustic wave propagation in tubes. He is the author of one textbook, Thermodynamics, published in 2013 by Pearson, Chennai/Noida (ISBN 9788131795507). His specialty is Engineering Drawing, an area he has taught in for more than thirty years.

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