Orthographic drawing
In this chapter,
you will learn how to make drawings that show the exact sizes of parts of
objects. The drawing will also show what objects look like from different
viewpoints.
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About orthographic drawing
In Grades 7 and 8,
you learnt different ways of drawing your designs. You can quickly put your
ideas on paper with sketches. Adding perspective makes drawings look more
realistic. Adding shading and colour make your drawings look even better.
The word orthographic comes from two words. "Ortho" means
looking straight at a flat face of an object. "Graphic" means a
drawing.
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You will now learn
how to make orthographic drawings. This means you will look at
an object from different sides and make separate drawings of what you see.
Look at this
isometric drawing of a rectangular box. Only three faces of the box are
visible.
- How many faces of the box
are not shown on this drawing?
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If you look
straight down from above at the box, you will see only a blue rectangle.
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If you look at the
box from a certain position on the left, you will see a yellow rectangle.
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If you look at the
box from a certain position on the right, you will see a red rectangle.
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This is also called a side
view.
It can also be called the front
view.
The front view, top
view and one side view of a small house are shown below. A set of drawings like
this is called first-angle orthographic projection.
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First angle
orthographic projections are normally drawn in blocks as shown here. The front
view is drawn first, in the upper left block. Construction lines are then drawn
from the front view to make it easier to draw the top view and a side view. A
side view can also be called an end view.
Orthographic drawing
Front
view
|
Side
view
|
Top
view
|
Make your first orthographic drawings
An isometric
drawing of a mobile staircase is shown on the right. The staircase is 900 mm
wide. The other dimensions are shown on the side view on the next page.
A front view of the
staircase is shown in the upper left block below. Use construction lines to
draw a top view and side view in the lower left and upper right blocks.
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Architects use
orthographic drawings of houses to tell the builder the size of the windows,
how tall the walls are and how high the roof is. These are called dimensions or
measurements. We usually write measurements in millimetres (mm).
The small lines on your ruler are 1 mm apart.
Look at this side
view of the staircase. You can see the measurements between the arrows.
Figure 17 : Side
view of the staircase with measurements
Have a look at the
drawings below and on the next page. An architect made these while he designed
a house.
Different kinds of lines in drawings
Different kinds of
lines are used in the following drawing:
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The following types
of lines are used in the above drawing:
Make a free-hand
copy of this drawing on the next page, in which you use the same types of lines.