book on doing tech drawings

Sketchup for Dummies

OK. No, by hand!

Are you looking for paper drawings or electronic drawings, and if electronic with what software?

No software.

Kinna sounds like you want a school text book as I had in college, Basic Design Technology class. Don't recall the text book title.

Maybe check with your local college/university book store for something appropriate.

Notes on technical sketching and free hand lettering for engineering students

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A Manual of Engineering Drawing for Students and Draftsmen

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------ has an eight edition copy of that last one

Heh, I live in Sweden, university stuff is good (great) but too difficult for me or too big of an undertaking with respect to this particular activity I should say, and the college, or corresponding, stuff is... it isn't good.

Like a technology book, it can begin like this:

Maybe you didn't realize it, but technology systems are everywhere. From you cellphone to the subway/underground of our nation's capital.

I can't wade thru stuff like that because it makes me wanna punch into a wall or something... just horrible.

Woodworking for Dummies: First download Sketchup...

The place I would start looking is in the nearest Used Book store. Possible your local Library book sale.

If you are in a hurry, look on Ebay, Abe Books, or some of he online used books sties.

Sounds like what you're looking for is something akin to the drafting text my mother learned out of at Pratt Institute in the '20s (geez, has it been a century since she lived in New York? Wow.). It's long lost and I can't remember the title but it was a very thorough education in technical drawing.

Is that carpentry or construction BTW? Carpentry, right? Sounds more like it. Wood shop (AmE). Or can it be both?

I'm into construction, by all means, Sketchup might be useful for that as well tho, not saying...

Not familiar with it.

Anyway I do this kind of stuff

Do you have a specific title or ISBN to look for, a book you yourself read and thought was great in this field?

That's gonna be a problem :)

I use if for both. It's not a CAD package, rather a 3-D modeling program. You build a model, then pull the dimensions from the model.

Nope. It's great for woodworking, particularly anything like cabinetry. I use it for construction around the house to get dimensions right. Starting from where I am now to where I want to be isn't always straight forward.

It would work well for that, though I think you'd need to model the trees first. I don't know how that'll work after the trees are loaded. Maybe others here would have ideas. It's widely used here.

I was formally trained for architectural and mechanical drawings almost

You might do web search.

I got one that was recommended here. I could look up the title, but that's not really important. I just wanted to mention that the used book stores (abebooks.com, etc.) have these books-and they are priced right. Such a book will probably have been published between the 50s and

Well, it doesn't have to be that recent. Surely, there should be some book, still?

As for CAD, yeah, I get it people do that, pros and skilled amateurs alike, absolutely nothing wrong doing that if one has great software and setup.

Yes, please do :) 2nd-hand books are great. As are sometimes brand new books. And even future books I guess ;) Don't judge a book by its publishing year :)

You mean "A Manual of Engineering Drawing for Students and Draftsmen"? You read it as well? Is it good?