Geometrical And Mechanical Drawing — Textbook & Study Material

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What you will study (chapters)

Chapter 1
Construction and Use of Scales Including Diagonal Scales
Chapter 2
Enlargement and Reduction of Irregular Plane Figures
Chapter 3
Construction of Triangles, Quadrilaterals and Polygons
Chapter 4
Similar Plane Figures
Chapter 5
Problems on Circles, Tangents and Normals
Chapter 6
Loci in Simple Link Mechanisms
Chapter 7
Conic Sections: Ellipse, Parabola and Rectangular Hyperbola
Chapter 8
Cycloidal and Involute Curves
Chapter 9
Orthographic Projection in First and Third Angle Methods
Chapter 10
Auxiliary Planes and Auxiliary Projection
Chapter 11
Intersection of Prisms, Pyramids, Cylinders, Cones and Spheres
Chapter 12
True Length of a Line in Space
Chapter 13
Sections and Surface Development of Solids
Chapter 14
Helix as a Locus and Projection of Helices
Chapter 15
Isometric and Oblique Projection Without Isometric Scale
Chapter 16
A2 Drawing Sheet Layout and Project Work Specifications
Chapter 17
Orthographic Projection Project Sheet
Chapter 18
Template Copying and Dimensioning Project Sheet
Chapter 19
Isometric View Project Sheet
Chapter 20
Project Assessment: Line Quality, Neatness, Accuracy, Completeness and Title Block

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