On Jun 20, 3:38*pm, Bill wrote:
Larry Jaques wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:55:46 -0400, *wrote:

Larry Jaques wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:18:49 -0400, * wrote:

Larry Jaques wrote:

Betty's book challenges you quite a bit. *Try drawing an upside down
picture of a rocking chair. It challenges all you know about
perspective. *DAMHIKT.

To me, it seems like the important part of that is that it forces you to
create an store an image in your brain. It's analogous to trying to play
guitar without really having a tune in your head. By this point I have
managed to learn to do both to some degree. The blues singer Son (Eddie)
House expressed the idea most-eloquently: "Until you've got that song in
your head you ain't gonna do s$#t!" *Seriously, I wish I had really
understand that sooner!

Grok that.

I had to look "grok" up in the dictionary to see which side you were on!
I was someone surprised to find the word.

Now read the book. It's marvelous! Everything by Heinlein was
excellent. *_Stranger in a Strange Land_

Well, I started by reading about it (at Amazon). Sounds interesting!
"Engineering Drawing" arrived in the mail today. Still need to finish
putting together by BS--and then my lights! *So many challenges so
little time... *I got side-tracked a little by researching how to move
table saurs 200 miles (that topic has already been adequately discussed
elsewhere).

Cheers,
Bill

When I need a reference, I mostly refer back to my trusty Fundamentals
Of Engineering Graphics.
Cecil Jensen and Fred Mason
McGraw-Hill Ryerson.
ISBN 0-07-54929

It was previously called Drafting Fundamentals. My original 1967 copy
was replaced in 1988.
It is seriously dated from a CAD perspective, but still a good book
when it is time to come back down to earth.