Gear Puzzle to be uploaded soon

One Hundred Thirtieth Post: Gear Puzzle to be uploaded soon

The solution to the gear puzzle will be posted soon. (www.constructorscorner.com) The puzzle is simple, because I wanted to present a “real world” solution that can be built upon. The puzzle doesn’t end once the solution is found. The puzzle also shows the relationship between art and science as they are used in design. The diagrams are simple, but the designer needs to think in an artistic manner to imagine the gear, its movements, and find a solution. It is similar to drawing from the imagination. In fact, that is exactly what it is. The designer is just drawing a machine instead of a person or dragon.

My drawings are simple, but that is all that is needed to explain the design. However if they were for a more formal presentation, I would have to make more detailed drawings of the circular switch and the tape looper machine.

I think that artistic drawing can improve technical descriptive drawing and vis versa. I have studied a little of both and from my experience of life drawing or rather drawing still life and seeing the angles and proportions helped me to visualize the orthographic drawings in drafting.

You won’t often see an art class for an engineer or draftsman. It would be beneficial if the students had to take at least one art class as an elective. It is probably the way the roles of the job are separated. Engineers who design cars or planes are probably taught some kind of art. Art students avoid the technical side of drawing unless they are in industrial design or architecture. But whatever the profession both art and technical drawing will be used with art being very important to them all.