Mechanical drawing self-taught: comprising instructions in the selection and preparation of drawing instruments, elementary instruction in practical mechanical drawing together with examples in simple geometry and elementary mechanism, including screw threads, gear wheels, mechanical motions, engines and boilers (1883)
^ inches. The dotted Hne i shows the diameter,across corners, of a square whose sides measure aninch, and so on. This scale lacks, however, one element, in that thediameter across the flats of a regular polygon being … i^nven, it will not give tlie diameter across the corners.1 liis, however, wc may obtain by a somewhat simi-lar construction. Thus, in Figure 184, draw the line() B, and divide, it into inches and parts of an EXAMPLES IN BOLTS, NUTS, AND POLYGONS. i^i inch. From these pohits of division draw…
Mechanical drawing
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