house design drawing

activity 7 is producingsome simple views of the cardboard model of the chairwe produced earlier on in activity 3. the three views i want to produceare the side view, the front view and the plan. so let me sketch out approximatelywhat i'm going to be doing. i want to sketch onto my griddedpaper the side elevation. now we could either copy this fromthe drawing given in activity 3 or we could measure itfrom the actual model itself. that's going to be the view on there.

i also want to produce the front view and that's goingto appear about there. that's that view. i also want to produce the plan and that's going to be a viewdown to here. so this is my side view, this is going to be my front view and this is going to be my plan view. side, front and plan.

now i need to get another sheetof paper, measure my model and begin drawinga more accurate drawing of this. okay, so i've gotall the dimensions down now. i've got my side view, i've gotthe basis of my front view and i've got the basisof my plan view. you can see i've begun to showthe thickness of the cardboard at the sides onto here. i need to show the seat and back and because i've been ableto take the model and measure it,

i can convert that dimensiononto the front view and i can use that to project acrossto give me the base of here. so we're going to use that dimensionto project across to give myself a line onto here. that's how highthat seat point is going to be. i now need to measurehow far that comes out onto here. so you can either take again thedimension from the modelling workbook or measure your cardboard model. and mine measures 30mm,let's put a point on here.

the front of the seat is 45,that's 35mm high and convert that dimension up hereand put a point in. now i've got the front of the seat, the base of the seatand the top of the back. i can draw those in to here and onto here and i can showthe thickness of the card, just estimating itfor the purpose of this one. it's rather thick in my pen butyou'll be using a thinner pen, an ordinary birowould be quite adequate to show that.

so you can see that's the view nowlooking on the side of that seat. i can project this dimension across - that's the beautyof this sort of drawing, you can project dimensionsfrom one drawing to another one rather than have to measure itevery time in every drawing. and the same now for the back,i can draw in the back here. in fact we're only going to see justthe edge of the back of that seat. i now need to producea dimension for the back and i can do thatby taking it from this dimension.

i can measure it from here to herewhich is 30. produce that onto there,draw that in, and finally the front edgeof the seat which cuts across there. so this line along here is the ground that the side view and the front vieware resting on but i can also give more informationin the form of a plan. and this type of drawing is very helpful if you're trying tocommunicate information in design.

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