Drafting tools may be used for measurement and layout of drawings, or to improve the consistency and speed of creation of standard drawing elements. Tools such...

compasses, is a technical drawing instrument that can be used for inscribing circles or arcs. As dividers, it can also be used as a tool to mark out distances...

Technical drawing, drafting or drawing, is the act and discipline of composing drawings that visually communicate how something functions or is constructed...

triangle (American English) is an object used in engineering and technical drawing, with the aim of providing a straightedge at a right angle or other...

draw straight lines Technical drawing tool – Tools and instruments used for accurate and precise manual drafting "Drawing tools – French curves". Weisstein...

document or for drafting precise technical illustrations (such as engineering drawings or architectural drawings). The drawing table used to be a frequent...

Squares see common use in woodworking, metalworking, construction and technical drawing. Some squares incorporate a scale for measuring distances (a ruler)...

A T-square is a drafting and technical drawing tool. T-square may also refer to: T-shaped square (tool), in carpentry T-square (fractal), in mathematics...

curves Lesbian rule – Flexible strip of lead for use in molding Technical drawing tool – Tools and instruments used for accurate and precise manual drafting...

An engineering drawing is a type of technical drawing that is used to convey information about an object. A common use is to specify the geometry necessary...

A T-square is a technical drawing instrument used by draftsmen primarily as a guide for drawing horizontal lines on a drafting table. The instrument is...

within its measurement resolution, as opposed to spurious digits Technical drawing tool – Tools and instruments used for accurate and precise manual drafting...

of the pantograph was for copying and scaling line drawings. Modern versions are sold as technical toys. Sculptors use a three-dimensional version of...

A contact copier (also known as contact printer) is a device used to copy an image by illuminating a film negative with the image in direct contact with...

A drafting machine is a tool used in technical drawing, consisting of a pair of scales mounted to form a right angle on an articulated protractor head...

A straightedge or straight edge is a tool used for drawing straight lines, or checking their straightness. If it has equally spaced markings along its...

As the area outline is traced, this wheel rolls on the surface of the drawing. The operator sets the wheel, turns the counter to zero, and then traces...

metal, wood or plastic composed of segments of smooth curves Profile gauge – Tool for recording the cross-sectional shape of a surface "lesbian rule". Oxford...

The reduction compass or proportional dividers is a geometry tool with asymmetric-length branches to allow performing homothetic transformations, reproducing...

the background color to white, in technical environments, -by tradition-, the name for copies of technical drawings remained Blueprint, although in English-speaking...

A ruling pen is a drawing instrument for drawing with ink or with other drawing fluids. Originally used for technical drawings in engineering and cartography...

Mechanical systems drawing is a type of technical drawing that shows information about heating, ventilating, air conditioning and transportation around...

A cyclograph (also known as an arcograph) is an instrument for drawing arcs of large diameter circles whose centres are inconveniently or inaccessibly...

Canadian English) is an engineering technician who makes detailed technical drawings or CAD designs for machinery, buildings, electronics, infrastructure...

Rotring (stylized rOtring) is a manufacturer of technical drawing tools and writing implements. Established in Germany in 1928 as a fountain pen manufacturer...

XVI. Within a few minutes, a "grand trait" was produced. The life-size drawing was completed by an artist. Chrétien's device used the mechanics of the...

said to be "used for plotting and map drawing, and the graphic solution of problems." Technical drawing tools Giesecke, Frederick E.; Mitchell, Alva;...

illustration, animation, architecture, engineering, and technical drawing. A quick, freehand drawing, usually not intended as a finished work, is sometimes...

to be technical writing, though importantly it often requires aspects of visual communication (which in turn sometimes entails technical drawing, requiring...

making copies at various enlargements or reductions by tracing over a drawing. See for a QuickTime animation. The platform forms both a writing surface...