Good Book on Civil Engineering Drafting
Good Book on Civil Engineering Drafting
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In my company, we use our entry level engineers as drafters. As you can imagine, their level of drafting knowledge is minimal at best. I spend more time redlining their drafting then teaching them engineering, but that is another topic for another day. My question is, does anyone have a good book on Civil Engineering Drafting that shows examples of how things like spot elevations, constructions notes, typical sections, details, etc. are suppose to look and possible rules to draft?
Thanks,
Jeff
Thanks,
Jeff





RE: Good Book on Civil Engineering Drafting
It can start with drawing templates and a drawing library. Layer colours, names, lineweight, scales, text and dimension styles and can be built on as time passes.
Dik
RE: Good Book on Civil Engineering Drafting
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RE: Good Book on Civil Engineering Drafting
RE: Good Book on Civil Engineering Drafting
RE: Good Book on Civil Engineering Drafting
Its good to know how to do it so you can do it as you design, but you can get good, talented graduates out of drafting/CAD programs from the community colleges to do drafting.
RE: Good Book on Civil Engineering Drafting
Experience with AutoCAD is an important qualifier for my company. For the scale of our projects, have an engineer work through the CAD is often required to fully understand the scope of the project being degined/modeled.
I have an old dfafting manual at my other office, I will try to post the name of the book later - it is sort of a drafting textbook.
Good detailing should be a priority of everyone along the chain. It is much easier to explain what you want if you know what to do to make that way on your own.
Daniel
RE: Good Book on Civil Engineering Drafting
As you have said they dont get the training in school, if you send them to training (as a responsible employer would) you would see faster results. If you dont agree with this then Hire Cad Techs,
RE: Good Book on Civil Engineering Drafting
Unfortunately, some clients will want their own version of drafting standards used on their drawings. We required that those companies clearly spelled out their requirements in advance.
While that company did have engineer students doing design and drafting, the company always kept 2 or 3 draftsmen to do the bulk of the drafting and to refine the engineer students' drawings. They found that while it was good for the students to draft and learn the drafting concepts, most could not make themselves take the time to get really good at drafting.
RE: Good Book on Civil Engineering Drafting
It covers all general drawing requirements
RE: Good Book on Civil Engineering Drafting
RE: Good Book on Civil Engineering Drafting
You are correct that civil drafting books are difficult to find, in fact, I know of only one that is worth anything. It is titled, Civil Drafting Technology, Fifth Edition. It is put out by Pearson Prentice Hall,ISBN: 0-13-049879-3. I am a Drafting Instructor and that is what I give the students as text for the Civil drafting portion of their training. I have attempted to find others to add to my library, but there's nothing remotely closs to this one.
Good Luck