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    How to Read a Workshop Drawing
    How to Read a Workshop Drawing
    How to Read a Workshop Drawing
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    How to Read a Workshop Drawing

    By Longland W.

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    "How to Read a Workshop Drawing" is a vintage article on understanding technical and mechanical drawings, with chapters on notation and lettering, common practice, blue prints, instruments, and more. It contains all the information a novice needs to know to be able to interpret technical diagrams and is highly recommended for students and apprentices. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on technical drawing and drafting.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWhite Press
    Release dateSep 21, 2017
    ISBN9781473341715
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      HOW TO READ

      A WORKSHOP DRAWING

      WHILE no one looking at the figure on the left in Fig. 1 has any difficulty in recognising it as the picture of a pulley, not everybody looking at the other two figures would recognise that they represent the same thing. It is a fact, however, and it is how a pulley would appear in a workshop drawing. But why should two figures be drawn when one, apparently, would not only suffice, but besides would be more understandable? As a matter of fact it is easier, and therefore takes less time to draw the two figures to the right than the one to the left; and what is much more important, it is only by drawing the pulley as shown in the two figures that its true shape and size can be ascertained. Who could tell, by examining the left-hand figure, that the pulley is circular, except he knew it beforehand? It might be narrower than it is high. True, circles when viewed sideway appear oval, and so it might be guessed that the figure represents something circular. Yet an oval also appears oval, only more so, when seen side-way. Therefore it is only a guess when it is thought that a circular body is represented by the left-hand figure. There can be no mistake, however, when the figure furthest to the right is examined. This elevation represents the pulley as seen from the side. Apparently it has no width. The rim, arms, and nave can be distinctly seen, but there is nothing to show that the rim and the nave stand out from the arms. Plainly, then, this figure does not give all the information required to understand the shape of the pulley. The middle figure shows the pulley as viewed from the front; its width is given, but there is no means of discovering that it is round. Indeed, it may be thought that this does not represent the pulley as seen from the front, for there is no mistaking the fact that a real pulley is round when looked at from the front, even if neither of the sides can be seen. This is true when the light and shade gives this information, and not the lines which bound the surface. These are arranged as shown in the middle figure, and are all that can be seen from the front. Here again only a small part of the information required about this pulley is given, for only the width is added. But taken with the figure to the right much can be learned about the size and shape of this pulley. For the diameters of the rim both inside and outside, of the nave, and of the hole in the nave are there to be measured if required. The widths of the arms and of the rim can be obtained, but not the thickness of the arms nor the length of the nave. The means of obtaining these will be shown later. Drawings made like the two on the right supply more information concerning the true shape and the actual sizes of an object than the single figure on the left. On the other hand, however, that on the left gives a better idea of the general form of the object than the two on the right, even when taken

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