Re: Technical Drawing?
From: Gregory L. Hansen (glhansen_at_steel.ucs.indiana.edu)
Date: 12/14/04
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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:20:29 +0000 (UTC)
In article <TJCdnTMGbNTVeSPcRVn-vQ@rcn.net>, <jmfbahciv@aol.com> wrote:
>In article <cpkbe2$1a7$1@hood.uits.indiana.edu>,
> glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory L. Hansen) wrote:
>>In article <tY2dnUncrPp_ESDcRVn-3w@rcn.net>, <jmfbahciv@aol.com> wrote:
>>>In article <coo0jq$5t8$1@hood.uits.indiana.edu>,
>>> glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory L. Hansen) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>What's a good source for technical drawing?
>>>
>>>Did you ever get this question answered, Greg?
>>
>>More or less. All the standard and manuals you could hope for are
>>available at www.ansi.org. For one to two dollars per page, e.g. $33 for
>>a 20 page manual, around $200 for a 100 page manual. And there are a lot
>>of them, and they seem to be non-overlapping.
>>
>>I was hoping to find it all on-line for free. After all, they're
>>standards, they shouldn't be kept secret. Or $80 in a Big Book O'
>>Nerdiness or something. But I haven't found anything that cheap or
>>comprehensive.
>
>Shhhhh!!! Don't anybody because I still feel guilty. I went
>to the Friends of the Library book sale last month. I got
>a grocery bag full of books for $1. One of them was _Tool
>and Manufacturing Engineers Handbook_. It's over 4" thick
>has teensy-tiny print and chock full of info.
>
>McGraw-Hill put a list of other handbooks on a facing page.
>This is a 1976 edition so I didn't think that you wanted
>to know about this list. I also don't have a good idea
>of what you want.
>
>For instance they list Electronic Engineers' Handbook by Fink.
>Handbook of Semiconductor Electronics by Hunter. There's even
>a Handbook of X-rays by Kaelble. Is this book inches thick?
Actually, I didn't have a good idea what I want, either. I wanted stuff
available for reference, in case I need it some day. Like the professor
once asked me to FAX him a diagram of the gas handling system, and I
didn't know the symbols for the different peices so I drew Mickey Mouse
heads for the regulators and drew a few boxes with labels. I might never
need to draw plumbing again. When I was tracing circuits in some of the
homemade parts of the apparatus I wished I knew appropriate symbols for
banana connectors, BNC connectors, LEMO connectors, and so on. But I
can't say that I'll be drawing many more circuits in the near future.
I figured I'd make do with what's available, bug the engineers and techs
when I need to, and worry more about my library when I have a better idea
what I'll be doing for the next few years.
I also learned, when talking to one of the engineers, that even the
engineers make stuff up on their diagrams, or use non-standard symbols
because they're the convention that their particular work place uses.
They just define all the symbols in a legend.
-- "'No user-serviceable parts inside.' I'll be the judge of that!"
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