Tech Drawing

One Hundred Sixty Eighth Post: Tech Drawing

Ever try to draw a technical drawing? It sounds easy enough. It is easy if you are given the basic design of the drawing and measurements as would happen in a drawing course. This time however you are given a problem where you have to create the design from scratch and figure the dimensions. Now that is a lot more difficult isn’t it?

Well what can you do to complete the drawing. Thanks to CAD and other drafting programs it is a little easier. Some CAD programs are set where you can change one part and have the other pieces change proportionately. Still it is back to fundamentals of planning a drawing with a sketch, figuring out all the elements, and drawing a neat, clean, final drawing.

I have trouble with this even though my drawings are not professional. There is just so much to figure when drawing from scratch. Often, the drawing lets you see the areas which seemed to work in your imagination that do not work otherwise. So it is back to the drawing board. And while your there... May the Creative Force be with You