Technical Drawing is a design-related drawing act and discipline of composing plans that visually communicate how something functions or is to be constructed.
Technical drawing is essential for communicating ideas in product design, industry design, information design, fashion design, environmental design, landscape design, architecture, and engineering. To make the drawings easier to understand, people use familiar symbols, perspectives, units of measurement, notation systems, visual styles, and page layout. Together, such conventions constitute a visual language, and help to ensure that the drawing is unambiguous and relatively easy to understand.
Technical drawing is interdisciplinary. It is not an pure art form because it not only pursues aesthetic values, but it pursue educational, informational, and communicative functions.
Project Requirement:
Use the form of digital line art to develop a 17″ X 22″ educational info-graphic poster through a product drawing.
Project Strategy:
Where do the ideas for the creation of the object originate, and how are these ideas developed? The form of a design is progressively developed graphically. For example, much of the original thinking is involved in the technical sketch made by the designer (and engineer). The layout shows the overall dimensions and will show several critical elements assembled in their functional relationships. Detail drawings are then made. Finally, sub-assembly and assembly drawings are made to show how the detail parts are to be assembled and to show general dimensions.
Before you begin a technical drawing, ask yourself one question: Which perspective you want to address for the product:
- Profile View (Front View)
- Plan View (Top View)
- 45 Degree Side View
- Top View + Side View
Technical Sketch
The designers interpret the requirements shown on the proposal drawing, study the
accompanying specifications, and begin thinking out solutions. The solutions are recorded in technical sketches. In the technical sketch, the designer puts down the important
factors. Structural investigations, functional requirements and basic manufacturing processes that may be used. Technical sketches are not discarded, they are valuable because they record most of the ideas and the directions that contribute to the final design. As much thinking and planning as possible should be shown in the rough sketches. This expedites a more direct solution and lessens the possibility of having to change design principles completely on the carefully drawn layout.
Digital Drafting is one of essential ways to address an architectural design, interier design, and environmental design.
The Layout
A layout drawing by the designer is an exact graphical representation of the design. Sometimes a layout drawing is used for an experimental production. The layout is an
accurate development of the conception of the design, or the placement of units. The layout is a key drawing from which product drawings are made.
Layout drawings are always drawn to full scale if possible. CAD is extremely useful this way. One of the useful procedures in all stages was the use of Adobe Illustrator to represent all alternatives in flat line art and/or in a 3D arrangement. Furthermore, AutoCAD is another desktop application for 2D and 3D computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting.
Technology (choose one of the followings):
- Adobe Illustrator (CS6 or CC)
- AutoCAD (2013 or 2014)
- Autodesk (Maya or Composite)
- CINEMA 4D – 11
Turn in 5 compositional sketches (from your brainstorm) on Feb 21
Project Theme: Any theme that interests you
Project Due: March 7