Smith, Leslie John, 1881- [from old catalog] · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 20
full or actual size. Very smallobjects may be magnified and shown on paper double theiractual size. If the drawing is half size, the scale will be 6 inches equals i foot, meaning that 6 inches of the MECHANICAL SKETCHING Q drawing represents a foot of the actual object. The follow-ing are… … Figure 5. architectural work and in other drawings representinglarge objects, the scale is very often as small as i = 1. Theordinary rule with the inches divided into sixteenthsanswers very well for quite a wide variety of scales inmechanical sketching. If one is doing a good deal of thiswork,…
Mechanical drawing
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