Product Overview
Civil Drafting Technology Seventh Edition covers it allbasic and advanced topicsand 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
