TG - BSI + 3P's Flashcards
What are preliminary drawings?
- Sketches to convey basic ideas
- Quick and rough
- First thoughts about how to fulfil brief, used to convey initial ideas to team and client
What are 4 benefits of preliminary sketches?
- Quick to produce
- Effectively conveys basic ideas to client + team
- Relatively cheap to create
- Annotations help to quickly convey ideas
What are production drawings?
- Accurate drawings of product + all component parts
- Can include sectional, detailed, and exploded views
- Typically orthographic and fully dimensioned
What are 5 benefits of production drawings?
- Accurate and drawn to scale
- Easily dimensioned
- Technical details can be shown through a range of drawing types
- International standards used so can be understood by anyone
- Can be used promotionally for assembly
What are promotional drawings?
- Used to sell a product to target audience/client
- Typically fully rendered with no technical details so easily understood by a wide audience
- Used to show how the product would look in reality, with textures, materials, and colours
What are 4 benefits of promotional drawings?
- Show a client what a final product will look like
- Are more realistic than production drawings
- Have no technical detail so anyone can understand
- Can be enhanced to make the product more appealing
Thick, dark, continuous line
Visible edges and outlines
Thin, light, continuous line
Construction lines
Short dashed, dark line
Hidden outlines and edges
Thin, light, broken line
Used for end of sections/parts too long to fit on page
Chain, thin line
Centre lines and lines of symmetry
Chain thick line with arrows at the end
Used for sections/cuts
Thin line with numbers
Contour lines
What type of section is drawing 1?
Half section
What type of section is drawing 2?
Partial section