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Drawing Instruments and Techniques

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Alphabet of Lines   The standardized collection of line types used in drafting, both manual and CADD.  
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Border Lines   Very heavy lines used to form a boundary for the drawing.  
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Centerlines   Indicate the center of holes and symmetrical objects such as windows and doors.  
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Construction Lines   Very light lines (in manual drafting) or temporary lines (in CADD) used in the process of constructing a drawing; they are to help the drafter and should not reproduce when a print is made.  
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Crosshatch Lines   Used to show that the feature has been sectioned; also called lines.  
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Cutting-Plane Lines   Heavy lines used to show where the object is to be sectioned.  
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Dimension Lines   Used to show size and location.  
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Extension Lines   Used to denote the termination point of a dimension line.  
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Floor Plan   Identifies the location and dimensions of exterior and interior walls, windows, doors, major appliances, cabinets, fireplaces, and other fixed features of the house; section view taken about halfway up the wall.  
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Freehand Sketching   A method of making a drawing without the use of instruments.  
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Front Elevation   The front view of an object.  
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Grids   Available in a wide variety of sizes and forms, they have many uses in manual architectural drafting; some grids are designed to be used under a sheet of tracing paper while others are designed to be drawn on directly.  
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Guidelines   Used for hand lettering a drawing in manual drafting.  
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Hidden Lines   Represent an edge that is behind a visible surface in a given view in the drawing.  
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Left Side Elevation   The left side view of an object.  
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Long Break Line   Used to show a break when the break is two or three inches in length.  
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Object Lines   Show the outline of the main features of the object.  
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Orthographic Projection   A means of representing the height, width, and depth of a three-dimensional object on two-dimensional paper.  
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Plan View   The top view of a house or other object.  
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Proportion   The relation of one part to another, or to the whole object.  
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Rear Elevation   The rear view of an object.  
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Right Side Elevation   The right side view of an object.  
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Section Lines   Used to show that the feature has been sectioned; also called crosshatch lines.  
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Short Break Lines   Used where part of the object is shown broken away to reveal an underlying feature or part of the object removed for some other reason.  
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Symbols Library   A collection of drafting symbols saved to a file that can be quickly inserted into a CADD drawing.  
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Templates   Serve as a guide in drawing special lines or symbols.  
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