UNIT 2:Technical Drawing

KEY WORD:  SKETCH, LAYOUT, CAD, DRAWING, SCALE, HEIGHT-WIDHT-DEPTH.

BOOK: UNIT 3. "COMPARISON".

- Dimensions: Height, Width, Lendth.

- Comparative forms: -er/..more than.

- Superlative form: -est/ the most.  

INDEX

1º INTRODUCTION.

2º METHODS IN TECHNICAL DRAWING

3º MEASUREMENTS. 

4º SCALES

  

1º INTRODUCTION:

Design ideas can be communicated in many different ways.The most common method of communicating ideas is through drawings and sketches. These can be used to communicate to clients, end users, manufacturers and other designers or experts, to name a few.Designers use also very often sketches to communicate to themselves. 
Sketching ideas on paper helps them to visualize products more fully and examine problem areas better. It also frees up their minds, allowing them to develop new ideas: EG. PREHISTORIC CAVE PAINTING, RENAISSANCE PERSPECTIVE, ABSTRACT PAINTING, PERSPECTIVE DRAWING, 3D DRAWINGS, DIGITAL ALTERARED PHOTOGRAPH. 

(Introduction to the unit and activities of views--->LINK HERE: Theory&Activities)

ACTIVITIES Nº1.

1.1.- Match the correct word of this definitions:

a) We use it to measure angles:protactor
b) We use it to draw parallel and perpendicular lines:set square
c) We use it to draw arcs and circumferences:compas
d) We use it to measure the length of lines:ruler

ACTIVITIES Nº2.

2.1. Using the computer, draw the following figures using AutoCAD.

                                                                               Arch

Yin y Yang

Pajarita

Clover

 2º METHODS:

   Technical drawing can be made using three different methods: 

    -SKETCH: It´s a freehand drawing where you put your ideas on a paper quickly and maintains its proportions     and incorporates its dimensions. In this case we don´t have to use rulers, only with a pencil.    

     -TECHNICAL DRAWING (LAYOUT): It´s a drawing where you have been using rules, set square, compass  (instruments) to give an exact picture. In this case if we use a computer to drawing, then this method is called GRAPHICS (CAD=Computer Addes Desing). Here are several types of these methods:

1. ORTOGRAPHIS PROJECTIONS: "VIEWS": Very useful because they offer the necesary information to construct an object. "Views" are the faces of an object. An object have six faces, but normally it is only necesary draw three of them: FRONT VIEW, PLAN VIEW (overhead viwe) and SIDE VIEW. To draw them you have to look perpendicular at the face, in a parallel plane, and they have to be in specific positions in relation to each other so that we can interpret them. (SlidesShare about views---> LINK HERE: VIEWS). (SlideShare
    
2. ISOMETRIC/OBLIQUE SYSTEM. "3-Dimensional Drawing", excellent for communication the parts of an object together. It shows us the whole object instead of its separate views.
3. CONICAL PERSPECTIVE. The object looks the same as we really see it. The lines int the drawing comes from one viewpoint (like the human eye) called "vanishing point".

ACTIVITIES Nº3:

3.1.In your blog, match and complete the sentences:
- With a pair of compasses, we can draw arcs
- With a set square, we can draw parallels lines
- With a protactor, we can measure angles
- With an oblique system, we can represent together of the views of an object
- With the conical system, we can represent an object like we see it
(...measure angles. /...represent together of the views of an object. /...draw arcs./...draw parallel lines. / represent an object like we see it.)

3.2. Sketch with guidelines in M.PAINT: A PRINTER and A RECEPTABLE

                                                                                         Receptable

Printer

3.3 Draw in M.PAINT the VIEWS of the 8 exercicies at the end of this slides

3.5. Draw your first capital letter using the CONICAL PERSPECTIVE CONICAL with M.PAINT. 

3º MEASUREMENTS.

The measurements or dimensions are used to understand the overall size of a drawing. They  have three items: 

EXTENSION LINES: It should not touch the drawings and must be extended beyond the drawing. 

DIMENSION LINES: It´s an arrow

FIGURES: It´s the number that show the real dimension, it´s draw over the arrow.

4. –SCALES: 
You need to scale objects and products as in many cases they are far too big (or too small) to be able to draw their actual size on paper. 
Scale is the expression of the “measurement of the DRAWING SIZE divided by measurement of the ACTUAL SIZE”. 
We need draw the object with different scales when it is not possible draw your layout to full size. There are three types:

• NATURAL SCALE or FULL SIZE: The object fit properly into your notebook, so you draw it in the same dimensions that it actually is. 1:1
• INCREASE SCALE. When you enlarge the object that it actually is. E.g. a ring, a tack, a  chuck, a nut, etc.   2:1 
• REDUCCTION SCALE: When you reduce the object than it actually is because it´s very large and not fit into your sheet. E.g. 1:10