Blueprint Reading For The Machine Trades

Learn how to read blueprints and understand the basic lines and views and welding symbols associated with drawings.

Now in its eighth edition, this hands-on blueprint reading guide contains the most comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of welding symbols and their application to welding prints and practice

Now in its eighth edition, this hands-on blueprint reading guide contains the most comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of welding symbols and their application to welding prints and practices. BLUEPRINT READING FOR WELDERS, 8th Edition provides the knowledge needed to interpret all types of working sketches and prints, from the simplest to the most complex, through step-by-step instructions.

The wide range of topics presented in each book will appeal to students with diverse interests while exposing language learners to useful vocabulary items commonly encountered in academic readings from various fields. Each reading within the Reading for the Real World series is also accompanied by exercises designed to encourage students to explore the reading topics through speaking, writing, and vocabulary activities.