Portfolio - Intro to Working Drawings

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What is a scale drawing that serves as a guide for the construction or manufacture of something such as a building or machine?

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Working Drawings

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What is a photographic print in white on a bright blue ground or blue on a white ground used especially for copying maps, mechanical drawings, and architects' plans?

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Blue Print

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Paper Sizes used in the United States based around the 8.5"x11" Letter format. Created By thew "American National Standards Institute".

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ANSI Paper size

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What is the common paper sizes used for Architectural Drawings in the United States? They are also the commonly sold sizes of "Studio Art" drawing paper.

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Arch Paper Size

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A _____ ______ is a small text box that goes in a drawing to identify the document and provide information about the drawing. A _______ _______ typically displays information about the project, as well as information about individual sheets.

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Title Block

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Architectural drawings are drawn to ________, so that relative sizes are correctly represented. The ________ is chosen both to ensure the whole building will fit on the chosen sheet size, and to show the required amount of detail. ________ is the ratio of your drawing size to the size of the object in the real world; commonly displayed in inches and feet like this, 1/4" = 1' - 0".

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Scale

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____________ is a guide that allows architects to apply reusable symbols (in standard scales) to their working drawings without having to manually re-draw them.

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Templates

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____________ a thin sheet of cardboard, plastic, or metal with letters cut out of it, used to produce the cut design on the surface below by the application of ink or paint through the holes.

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Stencil

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_______________________ is a means of representing three-dimensional objects in two dimensions, where a single view of an object (such as a view of the front) is presented onto a drawing surface.

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Orthographic Projections

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________________ are three different ways of drawing a 3D form in two Dimensions. These___________ are called plans, elevations, and Sections (which are shown as if the object has been cut across or sectioned to expose the interior).

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Primary Views