Drafting Flashcards
The primary method of communication between designers and clients, architects and builders, engineers and production personnel and between advertisers and customers
DRAFTING
A drawing when used to show the material, dimension, and shape of a product.
Technical Drawing
Considered as the international language of industry.
Drawing
Graphic language with the use of a pencil, eraser and paper only.
Freehand Drawing
Graphic language with the aid of precision drawing instruments.
Mechanical Drawing
Method of representing the exact shape of an object into two or more views on planes generally at right angles to each other by extending perpendicular from the object to the plane.
Orthographic Projection
Fundamental part of a drawing
Lettering
All letters having strokes “accented” or made up of thick and thin elements
Roman
All letters composed of uniform width elements
Gothic
recommended by ANSI ( American National Standards Institute) as it easier to read and letter than other styles of lettering
Single Stroke Gothic
All styles of Old English Text whose elements are made with styles C or D Speedball pens
Text Letters
Space for lettering is adequate
Normal Letters
Letters wider than normal letters
Extended Letters
Letters that are narrower than nowmal. Used when space is limited
Compressed/Condensed Letters
Letters with very thin stems
Lightface
Letters having heavy stems
Boldface
Extremely light horizontal lines to regulate the height of letters
Guide Lines
The uppermost horizontal guide line drawin for uppercase letters and stroke of letters that extends up which is known as “ASCENDER”
Cap line
Horizontal guideline drawn between the cap line and the base line used to determine the general height of lower case letters
Waist Line
Horinzal guideline where all the letters rest or stand
Base line
Horizontal guideline drawn for letters with stokes that extend down known as”DESCENDER”
Drop Line
Orthos + Graphos
Straightline Drawing
Horizontal Plane
Top View
Frontal Plane
Front View
Profile plane
Side View
Drawing wherein the object is represented by three sides seen at one time
Isometric Drawing
Starting point for all isometric drawings
Box Method
Means INCLINED ; one plane parallel to the picture plane which is the same size as the orthographic view
Oblique Drawing
The width, depth and height of the drawings are the true length
Cavalier
When the measurement of the depth axis is reduced to one half
Cabinet
