L 1.2 Vocabulary
Construction Line –Very lightly drawn lines used as guides to help draw all other lines and shapes properly.
Edge - line or border at which a surface terminates.
Grid - a pattern of regularly spaced horizontal and vertical lines.
Isometric Sketch – a sketch with equal measures.
Line Weight - a term referring to the thickness of a printing line. Sometimes shapes are drawn with a line weight of zero and then the fill color is used to define the shape.
Multi-view Drawings – A drawing that shows two or more two-dimensional views of a three-dimensional object.
Orthographic Projection – a technique that is used to show multi- view drawings.
Plane - a flat or level surface.
Projection Line – an imaginary line that is used to locate or project the corners, edges, and features of a three-dimensional object onto an imaginary two-dimensional face.
Scale - a balance or any of various other instruments or devices for weighing.
Size - the spatial dimensions, proportions, magnitude, or bulk of anything.
Technical Working Drawing - A drawing that is used to show the material, size, and shape of a product for manufacturing purposes.
Views - A way of showing or seeing something, as from a particular position or angle.
Depth – Front to back distance on an object.
Ellipse - a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it.
Height – Measure of an object from top to bottom.
Line - an ideal zero-width infinitely long, perfectly straight curve.
Manufacture - the making or producing of anything.
Object Line – Lines are thick and dark; used to define the object.
Perspective Sketch – A sketch that offers the most realistic three-dimensional view of all the pictorial methods, because it portrays the object in a manner that is most similar to how the human eye perceives the visual world.
Shading - a place or an area of comparative darkness.
Sketch - a rough design, plan, or draft.
Tone - a process that changes the color of a picture.
Visualize - forming a mental image of.
Documentation – Any communicable material (such as text, video, audio, etc., or combinations thereof) used to explain some attributes of an object, system or procedure.
Freehand - drawn or executed by hand without guiding instruments, measurements, or other aids.
Hidden Line – Lines used to show interior detail that is not visible from the outside.
Line Conventions – Lines of varying style and thickness are used in specific ways to develop and communicate graphic messages about an object’s geometry.
Measurement - extent, size, etc., ascertained by measuring.
Oblique Sketch – A sketch that has a straight on view of one of the objects’ faces, which is usually the front face.
Pictorial Sketch - A sketch that shows an object’s height, width, and depth in a single view.
Profile - a profile consists of an agreed-upon subset and interpretation of a specification.
Proportion - comparative relation between things or magnitudes as to size, quantity, number.
Shape - the quality of a distinct object or body in having an external surface or outline of specific form or figure.
Solid - object is in the staetes of matter characterized by resistance to deformation and changes of volume.
Vanishing Point - a point in a perspective drawing to which parellel lines appear to converge.
Width – an object’s side-to-side dimension.