Drawing Designs in Detail
Students practice creating rudimentary detail drawings. They learn how engineers communicate the technical information about their designs using the basic components of detail drawings. They practice creating their own drawings of a three-dimensional block and a special LEGO piece, and then make 3D sketches of an unknown object using only the information provided in its detail drawing.
Design drawings are an important communication tool for engineers.Copyright PRLog, Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Engineering_drawings_with_Machinery%27s_Handbook.jpg
For engineers to imagine, create and design the products, devices, and systems that have lasting impact on society, they must know how to present and archive their designs in a manner that is understood by all engineers across cultural and geographical boundaries. To facilitate the sharing of design information, engineers have created uniform standards, protocols, and tools. One of these standards is ANSI Y14.5, which describes how to create a detail drawing. A detail drawing is two-dimensional representation of the engineer's design that contains all the information needed to precisely reproduce it.
The objective of this activity is to give students practice drawing 2D sketches of 3D objects using standardized engineering drawing practices.