Civil Drafting Technology

Civil Drafting Technology Seventh Edition covers it all–basic and advanced topics–and everything in between, equipping readers to convert engineering sketches or instructions into actual formal drawings and gain a working knowledge of mapping. Using a “knowledge building” format where one concept is mastered before the next is introduced, Civil Drafting Technology includes:

• Basic Drafting Topics
• • Maps: fundamentals, types of maps, scales, symbols
  • CADD: use, standards, applications
• Intermediate/Advanced Topics
• • Measuring distance and elevation, Surveying, Location & Direction, Legal Descriptions and Plot Plans, Contour Lines, Horizontal Alignment Layout, GIS
• Career Development
• • Schooling, Employment, Workplace Ethics, Professional Organizations
• CADD Applications
• Content-related Tests
• Real-world drafting and design problems

Civil Drafting Technology Seventh Edition covers it all–basic and advanced topics–and everything in between, equipping readers to convert engineering sketches or instructions into actual formal drawings and gain a working knowledge of mapping. Using a “knowledge building” format where one concept is mastered before the next is introduced, Civil Drafting Technology includes:

• Basic Drafting Topics
  • Maps: fundamentals, types of maps, scales, symbols

  • CADD: use, standards, applications

• Intermediate/Advanced Topics
  • Measuring distance and elevation, Surveying, Location & Direction, Legal Descriptions and Plot Plans, Contour Lines, Horizontal Alignment Layout, GIS

• Career Development
  • Schooling, Employment, Workplace Ethics, Professional Organizations

• CADD Applications

• Content-related Tests

• Real-world drafting and design problems