How to Make Patent Drawings: A Patent It Yourself Companion
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This book is for any individual who would like to know the process in which a patent idea should follow. Furthermore, it is really a great source for do it yourselfers and beginning engineers.

The bokk is worth 10X the money if you are serious about patents.

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If you know absoultely nothing about making drawings, then this book will help because it starts with this is a pencil and this is paper. If you have basic mechanical drawing skills, then you already know 85% of what's in here. What you do need to know is the difference between typical mechanical drawings and patent drawings. For a beginner, it is probably pretty good. If you can draw, it could have been reduced to about 10 pages.

I did find the other book in the series regarding patents useful. However, I know nothing about patents.

This book is well written and up to date. I needed detailed information on shading and it was covered very well. If your new to patent drawings, this is covers the subject well.

I bought this book and Patent Pending in 24 Hours. The latter was a complete disappointment (read my review of it). This book however, was fairly detailed and answered quite a few questions for me. I am trained as a Graphic Designer. So I was very interested in doing the drawings myself on the computer. While the book focuses on traditional drawings for the most part, the information is still relevant for computer drawings. The book tells you what parts you need to draw and what to leave out. It also talks about how to shade the different elements. Which is one of the major things the examiner uses to differentiate the parts of your invention that connect or are attached. The book also goes into detail about how to label your figures and numbering of parts.
The one thing that did bother me about this book is that more than once they tell you to reference Patent It Yourself for more information. I bought this book because it implies that it will tell you everything you need to know about making patent drawings. I thought it was ridiculous that they spread the information out into their other book as a ploy to make more money. Luckily, there is enough information here to do what you need to do.
Overall I thought the book is a good collection of information. Despite the references to their other book.