Suggestions for a good reference book

I think thats the industry standard along with ‘architectural graphic standards.’

Good suggestions for other graphics reference, but for technical reference I’d recommend still picking up Time Saver Standards while you’ve got money budgeted for textbooks (something I didn’t while in grad school, LOL) – it was the go-to reference in my last office and I’ve always regretting not picking it up while I was in school – they didn’t make us buy it (even though I went to UMass Amherst, former home of “Dines”) but just gave us photocopies of parts of it b/c it was so expensive. Definitely a must for the bookshelf though!

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