Civil Drafting Technology, 8th edition

A unique, broad, highly useful range of content not found in other texts:

• Everything students need to learn about civil drafting in a single volume.

• Topics range from generic design and drafting theory to maps and map making, to surveying, to specific civil design and drafting applications.

• NEW! Revised content throughout the text resolves issues of inaccuracies, errors, inconsistencies, and other discrepancies of the previous edition, providing a new edition that is more accurate, clearer, easier to understand, and flows better.

• NEW! New content added throughout provides required information about new technology and theory associated with civil engineering design and drafting, and related disciplines.

• NEW! References to manual, hand, or board drafting with paper and pencil have been removed from this edition to update content and reflect current practices.

Motivating, easy-to-read and understand, and supported with quality illustrations:

• Complicated and abstract concepts are accessible to a wide range of readers.

• NEW! Improved chapter format and organisation make this edition more cohesive, easier to follow, less redundant, and better organisation to provide a more efficient and systematic learning process. Basic concepts build from one topic to the next and one chapter to the next.

• Chapter objectives provide motivating learning goals and serve a road map of each chapter to help students track their learning.

• Numerous figures and high-quality illustrations provide appropriate detail and show real-world examples to support chapter content.

• NEW! Nearly all of the illustrations and figures have been redrawn to ensure clarity, consistency, and updated material.

• NEW! Additional figures and illustrations have been added to better illustrate the text’s content.

Presents CADD content and applications throughout:

• CADD topics include:

  • CADD software used in drafting and design.

  • U.S. National CAD Standards.

  • CADD templates.

  • CADD layers.

  • CADD material requirements, specific CADD applications, file management, and plotting guidelines.

  • CADD symbols for specific civil engineering drafting applications.

  • Increased productivity with CADD.

  • Reuse of drawing content with CADD.

  • CADD environment in industry.

Improved chapter format and organization make this edition more cohesive, easier to follow, less redundant, and better organization to provide a more efficient and systematic learning process.

Nearly all of the illustrations and figures have been redrawn to ensure clarity, consistency, and updated material.

Additional figures and illustrations have been added to better illustrate the text’s content.

New and updated CADD content provides required information about modern civil CADD technology and applications.

New and updated chapter review questions offer additional review and print-reading exercises to reinforce chapter content.

New and updated chapter problems offer more review, study, and drafting and design exercises to ensure comprehension of important topics. Some problems now also include a PowerPoint presentation.

Revised content throughout the text resolves issues of inaccuracies, errors, inconsistencies, and other discrepancies of the previous edition, providing a new edition that is more accurate, clearer, easier to understand, and flows better.

New content added throughout provides required information about new technology and theory associated with civil engineering design and drafting, and related disciplines.

References to manual, hand, or board drafting with paper and pencil have been removed from this edition to update content and reflect current practices.