House Design Details

Hi, I'm a civil engineer who in my spare time is trying to help some
physically disabled adults learn autocad. Hopefully, one or two can
advance to the point where they can find employment in this field. I
would appreciate downloads of all necessary construction drawings to
build a small house or holiday chalet so my students can practice
recreating these drawings. I work in the heavy earthmoving side of
civil engineering and as such my knowledge of architectural details is
limited. Thanks for any help. e-mail to

 

In a previous post sa_mc says...

I recommend that you go to the library and get a book on house building.
Let your students copy the details from the book. This will improve
their skills a lot more than simply editing an existing electronic file.

 

What is required depends on where you are applying for permit. Standards and
Codes vary with the jurisdiction.

 

Wiley has published a "vintage" version of Graphic Standards on traditional
construction techniques that I was thinking of buying next week as I
remember it is full on wonderful old details, and I may be doing some
traditional library millwork soon.

 

The Internet has made the legwork of finding out-of-print and rare
books down to nearly nothing, so it's surprising to hear of such a
service used by someone who has Internet access.
You can find many or most books online at metasearch sites such as
these:
http://www.bookfinder.com
http://used.addall.com

Bookfinder searches through several databases, including new and
used books on amazon.com (fair disclosure, I have some used books for
sale on amazon.com).

And if the books you want aren't listed online, you can pay $30 per
year to subscribe to the Bibliophile list, and post "Want-to-buy's"
for your desired books that end up in hundreds of booksellers' inboxes
(who still have substantial inventory not yet cataloged online):

http://www.bibliophilegroup.com/
Click on "Biblio List Info Page" for details. You can almost certainly
find these books without the markup (and time delay) of the bookfinder
service. I've been a Bibliophine subscriber for many years.
There's also rec.arts.books.marketplace, though I rarely read it
and don't recall ever posting there.
One more note, if you post want-to-buys and ALSO ask your search
service for the same book(s), this may be counterproductive and
artificially raise prices, as many sellers then see two people looking
for the same book.