Paper, Board and Timber Flashcards
What are the 5 different types of paper?
Cartridge paper
Layout paper
Tracing paper
Grid square paper
Bleed-proof paper
What is cartridge paper?
High quality with textured surface for sketching
What is layout paper?
Thin and translucent so light can be seen through it, used for general design work
What is tracing paper?
Semi-transparent paper used to copy images
What is grid paper?
Square grid paper - Orthographic and scale drawings
Isometric grid paper - Isometric drawings
What is bleed-proof paper?
Used by designers when drawing with felt tips and markers so ink doesn’t spread out
What are the 6 types of boards?
Solid white board
Ink jet card
Corrugated card
Duplex board
Foam core board
Foil-lines board
What is timber?
Sawn chunks of solid wood used in building materials
What are the 2 main characteristics of softwoods?
Grow in colder climates and are fast growing
Fairly cheap and accessible
What are the 3 main characteristics of hardwoods?
Grow in warmer climates and are slow growing
More expensive
Denser and harder
What are 3 common softwoods?
Pine - quite strong and cheap but hard to work with
Larch - harder and tougher than most softwoods and resistant to rot
Spruce - hard with good strength-to-weight ratio but not very durable and hard to work with
What are 5 common hardwoods?
Oak - tough, durable, very strong, attractive grain but corrodes steel
Mahogany - durable, easy to work with, expensive
Beech - resists denting but isn’t particularly strong and can be bent using steam
Balsa - low density and very soft making it easy to cut and shape
Ash - tough and absorbs shock well
What are the 3 manufactured boards?
MDF - made from fibres of softwood timber stuck together
Plywood - several layers of softwood or hardwood glued together
Chipboard - compressed wood chips, shavings and sawdust
