Drawing board Drawing board are available in several dimensions.

The size of drawing board varies according to the size of drawing sheet. According to Indian standard Institutions(IS-1444-19970 the recommended size of drawing board is given below. Name of board or Size of drawing sheet to be Length x breadth x thickness used D0 D1 D2 D3 A0 A1 A2 A3 of board size (mm) 1500 x 1000 x 25 1000 x 700 x 25 700 x 500 x 15 500 x 350 x 15

designation

T-square

t-square are made up of hard wood or plastic. There are two parts called blade and head or stock. One edge of the stock is made uniform to draw the line conveniently. This called working edge. The inner edge of the board is another working edge. The angle of the both working edge joined at 90 degrees. The working edge of the blade is pressed on the ebony edge of drawing board and moved to top and bottom of drawing board. The horizontal line and vertical lines are drawing by T-square.

Set squares

Set square are made up of transparent celluloid or plastic. They are available in two type. The set square is triangular in shape one of the angle is 900. The set square of 300 - 600 is length 25cm. the set square 450 is 20cm length. The edge of the set square is convenient to draw uniform line. In the general the center point of set square is provided with triangular hole or French curve. The measurements are noted on the side of the right angle portion of the set squares.

Compass Two type of compass  Bow compass  Large compass

Bow compass These are used to draw small circle upto 25mm and to draw arc. These are made up by the metal of steel. Upper part of the leg is provided with small deviation by pressing spring. A sharp needle is joined at the other end. The other leg has the provision of fixing the pencil lead. In between the legs or at the side of the leg. There will be adjusting screw is fixed in this compass

Large compass These are made up steel. They are used to draw diameter of 120mm circle and arc. The upper

part of the leg is connected with pivot.

A sharp needle in fixed is one of the end. The length of the sharp needle can be changed to the required measurement with the help of adjusting screw. The other one has the provision of fixing the pencil lead. Instead of pencil, lead ink pen can fixed. The pencil lead and the sharp needle are made vertical to the drawing sheet, when diameters of big circles can be drawn. Above 120mm the circle may be drawn by fixing the lengthening bar at the leg where the pencil lead is fixed.

Divider These are made up of steel. The upper portion of two legs are connected by a pivot. The other ends are like sharp needle. According to our requirement the curve or straight line can be devided in to equal parts with the help of devider. Measurement may be transferred from scale to drawing. Distance of one figure measured can be drawn to another figure.

Drawing pencil Quality of drawing, accuracy ,appearance depends upon the quality of pencil which are used. So to draw a drawing, only drawing pencil can be used. So many qualities are availab in le drawing pencil. The quality of pencil is marked at one end. There are 18 qualities in drawing pencil. The pencil used for engineering drawing and their qualities are given below.    Hard pencils (9H to 4H) Medium hard pencil (3H , 2H , H , F , HB , and B) Soft pencil (2B to 7B)

Drawing paper Drawing sheet are available in various qualities. The drawing sheet used for drawing should be white, uniform thickness and not easily torn. While using the rubber the fibres of paper should not come out. Surface of a good quality drawing sheet should be soft. The drawing should be drawn on the soft side. According to the size of drawing sheet also varies and are available in various dimension. Name of sheet A0 A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 Trimmed size (mm) length x width 841 x 1189 594 x 841 420 x 594 297 x 420 210 x 297 144 x 210

Eraser

An eraser (us) or rubber (uk is an article of stationary that is used for rubbing out pencil and also for pen mistake. Erasears have a rubbery consistency and are often white and pink, although modern materials allow them to be made in colour.

Engineers scale An engineer scale is a tool for measuring distances and transferring measurements at a fixed ratio of length. It is commonly made of plastic and is just over 12 inches of marking s, leaving the end unmarked so that the first and last measurement ticks do not wear off. It is used in making engineering drawings ,commonly called blueprints, in scale.

Technical pen A technical pen is a speacialized instrument used by an engineer ,architect, or drafter to make lines of constant width for architectural, engineering or technical drawings. It has been also generally called rapidograph, although that particular name is officially a trademarked line of products made by German company Rotring.

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