Tuesday 21 November 2017

Transforming a location: Technical Drawing

This was my first time doing a technical drawing and before I was given talks on how they should be laid out etc I never imagined I'd be able to do one myself. With the right notes and instructions they're actually quite simple but time consuming.

At first it was difficult to get accurate and straight lines at my desk but the t-squares were quite handy. I have an A1 drawing board in my room at halls and when I took my tech drawing home it was so much faster to use this than the desk at uni!

My chosen location had a lot of details that made the technical drawing a lot more complex, especially when I hadn't made my surveying notes all that clear. But I had picked this space so that I'd learn more through my technical drawing and I think I had certainly achieved this.







My main error was that the stairs on my ground plan was meant to be a dashed line not a solid one. Also my lines were quite faint and not consistent, I think this is because I was worried I'd mess it up but I must get over this for next time. I was told by David that my lettering was very neat and almost looked printed which I guess is something to be proud of.