Reading Blueprints

I've never understood how to read blueprints. There are a bunch of lines, symbols, and unless you're in the know, it just seems like a bunch of junk on a piece of paper.

Well, if you're like me but actually want to know how to read a blueprint (I don't really care to right now), then DeWALT came out with a book for you. It's the Blueprint Reading Professional Reference.

In the 350 pages you'll see real-world blueprint reading examples, hundreds of charts, illustrations, formulas, laws, & symbols, and current materials which are up-to-date with industry standards.

They even realized where it was going to be kept, making the cover material flexible as well as water and oil resistant with a super-strong binding which allows the book to lay flat when open, and the large and easy-to-read text and illustrations make it useful at the jobsite while being the right size to easily fit into any pocket or toolbox.

I really didn't ever think about how much you need to know to read a blueprint, but I knew it was more than I wanted to memorize. The 350 pages pretty much cemented that opinion in my mind. If I ever have need of that, I'll be picking up the book from DeWALT.