Drawing to communicate
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What three jobs do drawings do in a design process?
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They explore ideas, refine them, and communicate them. Each job suits a different kind of drawing.
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Informal vs formal drawing — one advantage each.
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Informal (freehand sketch): fast and disposable, so many ideas can be explored. Formal (isometric, orthographic, exploded): unambiguous and to scale, so it can be manufactured from.
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What is the convention of an isometric drawing?
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All three axes are drawn at 30° to the horizontal, and nothing gets smaller with distance — so measurements stay true along each axis.
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What is an exploded drawing used for?
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Showing how a product assembles: the parts are separated along the axes they assemble on, in order, so sequence and every component are visible at once.
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