This text book is for a first course in tool design, tool making and related areas of tooling. The content is basic in nature and covers the major broad general areas of tooling. Each chapter is designed to give the student an understanding of the fundamentals of a specific area of tooling. An attempt has been made to supply the necessary information in each chapter to enable the students to completely design the simple tooling. For Examples, tables and fromulas from various handbooks are included in the relevant chapters. Table of Content: Chapter 1 Tool-Design Methods Chapter 2 Toolmaking Practices Chapter 3 Tooling Materials and Heat Treatment Chapter 4 Design of Cutting Tools Chapter 5 Gages and Gage Design Chapter 6 Locating and Clamping Methods Chapter 7 Design of Drill Jigs Chapter 8 Design of Fixtures Chapter 9 Design of Sheet-Metal Blanking and Piercing Dies Chapter 10 Design of Sheet-Metal Bending Chapter 11 Forming and Drawing Dies Chapter 12 Using Plastics as Tooling Materials Chapter 13 Tool Design for Numerically Controlled Machine Tools Automatic Screw Machines Chapter 14 Answers to Odd-Numbered Questions Chapter 15 Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems